5 District 202 Students Place, More Exhibited At Art Invitational

PLAINFIELD, IL — Of 19 Plainfield School District 202 high school students who participated in an art contest at Lewis University, three won top spots, while two others received special recognition.

The high school students represented the district and their high schools at the fifth-annual High School Art Invitational at the Romeoville-based university.

Adam Jackson, a senior at Plainfield East High School, won "best in show" for his photograph titled "Absence," while Plainfield Central High School junior Emily Guardado won first place for her drawing "Las Mujeres De Le Mañana." From Plainfield North High School, senior Scarlette Conners won second place for a drawing titled "Orchidaceae."

Briana Zarazua, a senior at Plainfield East, and Tania Rocha, a senior at Plainfield South High School, both received honorable mentions for their works, titled "Deserted" and "Frog," respectively.

The 19 District 202 students' works of art are among 36 pieces of various mediums, including sculpture, painting, drawing, photography and digital illustration, on display at the Brent and Jean Wadsworth Family Gallery. Located in the Oremus Fine Arts Center off University Drive North on the university's campus, the exhibit can be viewed daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. through Jan. 14.

Students exhibited in the show include the following.

Plainfield Central High School

• Elisabeth Ebersole, junior
  • Piece on paper using pen called "Marilyn"
• Emily Guardado, junior
  • Piece on Photoshop using Wacom drawing tablet and stylus titled "Las Mujeres De La Mañana"
• Veronika Legler, junior
  • Piece on Photoshop using Wacom drawing tablet with stylus titled "Cats and Lilacs"

Plainfield South High School

• Grace Clarke, senior
  • Piece on earthenware clay using glaze titled "I See What You Did There"
• Allaya Foster, junior
  • Piece on scratchboard titled "Cat"
• Tierney Quinn Mika, sophomore
  • Piece on earthenware using glaze titled "Mother Earth"
• Tania Rocha, senior
  • Piece on scratchboard titled "Frog"

Plainfield North High School

• Waverly Cayo, senior
  • Piece using graphite, acrylics, spray paint and newspaper titled "Panic 16"
• Scarlette Conners, senior
  • Piece using Prisma colored pencils titled "Orchidaceae"
• Guste Rutkauskas, sophomore
  • Piece using graphite and charcoal titled "Untitled (My Cat’s Birthday)"
• Emily Scofield, junior
  • Piece using acrylics titled "Untitled (Portrait of Dad)"
• Carlie Piersma, senior
  • Piece using copy paper (collage) using color pencil, oil pastel and white gel pen titled "Untitled (Clarinet)"

Plainfield East High School

• Kendall Haupt, senior
  • Piece using acrylic titled "Favorites"
• Adam Jackson, senior
  • Photograph titled "Absence"
• Olivia Jones, sophomore
  • Piece using ink and graphite titled "Untitled"
• Grace Wenerski, senior
  • Digital photography with alterations in Photoshop titled "Ride of Mystique"
• Briana Zarazua, senior
  • Digital illustration titled "Deserted"