Maka Paw, left, Gaia Smart, centre, and Jayde Hinson show off their winning art work at the eleventh annual Sask. Rivers Art Awards Show. (Brady Bateman/paNOW Staff)

By Brady Bateman

Art Awards

Art awards showcase student talent

May 9, 2019 | 10:21 AM

Student artists were awarded at the eleventh annual Sask. Rivers Art Award Show on Wednesday in Prince Albert.

Nearly 500 pieces of art were submitted throughout the year from students across the school division, with roughly 200 pieces displayed, according to Robert Bratvold, director of education with Sask. Rivers.

“The reason we do it is to support and recognize outstanding artistic excellence in our school division. We have students from kindergarten to Grade 12, with all kinds of mediums that have been submitted throughout the year,” Bratvold said. “It’s also a way for us to reach out to the parents and the public. The students get excited about it, and the parents are very proud. It’s great, it really is.”

More than 500 pieces were submitted, with nearly 200 shown to the public at the eleventh annual Sask. Rivers Art Awards Show. (Brady Bateman/paNOW Staff)

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The pieces selected will remain on display throughout the school division head office for an entire year, until May of next year when a new round of pieces will decorate the walls.

“Most of the pieces will go back to the students next year. We’ve had a few people offer to buy pieces they liked so much whether it’s parents or grandparents or a teacher or member of staff,” Bratvold said.

“I think it’s that recognition of excellence, it’s an opportunity similar to an all-star game, the students have worked hard all year and now they get to celebrate these achievements.”

Out of almost 200 pieces of art, four pieces were selected as award winners, with the artists honoured at the ceremony.

Director of Education with Sask. Rivers Public School Division, Robert Bratvold, spoke to parents and loved ones of artists who were selected as winners for the eleventh annual Art Awards Show on Wednesday. (Brady Bateman/paNOW Staff)

The three winners in attendance of the event were:

Gaia Smart. Grade Five student at Canwood Community School

Maka Paw, Grade Seven student at Riverside Community School

Jayde Hinson, Grade Eleven student at Debden Public School

“It started off as an art project with flowers and glue, then we let the glue dry up and it gets kind of see-through then we painted that with oil pastels,” Smart said of her piece.

“My mom is an artist and I just have her genetics and it’s really fun to paint and I really like it. It was really exciting to be picked.”

Maka Paw told paNOW her painting was inspired by her mother’s past.

“We made different animals, and I picked an elephant for my piece because my mom told me stories of when she was younger where she grew up she would ride elephants with her family,” Paw said.

“It was really exciting to get picked. I didnt expect that at all.”

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