By Chris Basinger, Staff Reporter
TRUSSVILLE, Ala–The Eastern Women’s Committee of Fifty held its awards presentation for its annual art show at the Trussville Public Library Thursday evening, honoring the creative works of local high school students.
The show, which has been running for over 30 years, features various artworks submitted by students from six schools–Clay-Chalkville, Moody, Springville, Shades Valley, Pinson, and Hewitt-Trussville.
“For the first time this year we have added a new category for photography, so we’re real excited for this and the teachers are real excited for this new category,” said Art Show Chairman Lisa Dole.
Ava Jewell of Hewitt-Trussville won first prize in photography for her piece “Olive Green,” featuring a young girl holding a kitten.
“The person in my piece is my sister Livy and then our cat, cause my mom breeds cats,” Jewell said, adding that they have since sold the cat.
“It was very sad,” she said.
Jewell, who is in her first year of photography class, used a large light box to set up the portrait and said she is looking forward to doing more photography in the future.
Jada Thompson of Hewitt-Trussville was awarded second place for “Flight of a Bumblebee” and Aliza Scott, also of Hewitt-Trussville, got third place for “Portrait of Patience.”
Corinne Caprara was awarded first prize in the mixed Media category with her piece titled “Saraland,” which uses acrylic, thread, and embroidery floss to depict one of her best friends smiling in a field.
“I just wanted to like represent her personality basically and like I was inspired by her creativity so that’s why I did the embroidery because she really likes to make stuff like that and then she has this tendency to like zone out all the time, so I call it Saraland and so that’s what I named the piece after,” Caprara said.
Gavin Lumpkins of Moody placed second for the piece “Outlaw” and Raymie Brechin of Hewitt-Trussville placed third for “Emotional Reflection.”
The first prize winners received $150, second place received $100, and third place received $75.
The committee also honored the teacher of the first place winners, Layken Rubin of Hewitt-Trussville High School, with a $150 gift certificate to Alabama Arts Supply.
All of the pieces featured in the art show will be on display at the library over the next week.
EWCF’s next event will be its annual golf tournament on May 2 where it will be raising money to support The Red Barn.