Great showing for SHS artists at Wyoming Art Symposium

Hard work pays off and SHS art students are yet again a fine example of this. The annual Wyoming Art Symposium was held April 25-27 in Casper. Over 4200 pieces were displayed along with 75 schools and over 1000 students in participation. Only one quarter of all artwork gets awarded.

Janessa Wilen walked away with a first as well a Congressional/3-D Artistic Discovery Award for her warm glass piece titled “Late Autumn”. Janessa had well over 30 hours in to this project alone.

The Congressional Award is the most elite of the awards given out at State art and only 25 of the 3-D pieces are given t...