District 212 announces Elmhurst College art exhibition winners

The exhibition was held in the Frick Center at Elmhurst College. Leyden was one of eight area high schools that participated in the competition.

Student artists from both Leyden campuses earned a total of 34 awards. Two of those awards included a renewable $2,000 Purple Ribbon Special Scholarship Award to Elmhurst College. The skilled art students who won the scholarship award are David Sadlo of East Leyden and Martin Delgado of West Leyden. Sadlo’s entry, In the Wild, is a digital image of a fox broken into smaller triangular pieces. Delgado’s creation is a collage of nine drawing variations of a pear titled Pear 9 Ways.

The exhibition highlighted hundreds of works in various media including paintings, prints, sculptures, videos and computer art. Suellen Rocca, director of exhibits at the college, noted that there are many talented high school students that take part in the exhibition every year.

Scholarships, ribbons and certificates were awarded at the artists’ reception held in January.

In the Wild by David Sadlo earned the East Leyden senior a renewable $2,000 scholarship to Elmhurst College. West Leyden senior Martin Delgado also won a renewable $2,000 scholarship to the college for his work Pear 9 Ways.