41st Annual School Art Exhibition: Crafted with Class

Center Space Gallery
January 18 – March 29, 2025

Previous High School Best in Show Award Winner: Brandie Van Maanen, Pumpkin in the Dark, acrylic paint on canvas board, Belmond-Klemme High School, 11th Grade in 2022

Every year the Charles H. MacNider Art Museum celebrates Youth Art Month (March) with an exhibition honoring art students and their teachers.  The 2025 School Art Exhibition will feature the inventive artwork of high school students (grades 9-12) from public, private and home schools served by Central Rivers Area Education Agency, Clear Lake Regional Office. 

Student artists whose work has been selected for inclusion in the exhibition will be honored at a recognition reception and awards ceremony on Saturday, March 8 at 11:00 a.m.  The reception will be hosted by Alpha Delta Kappa, an honorary sorority for women in education.  The event is free and open to all.

The purpose of Youth Art Month is to emphasize the value of art education for all students and to encourage support for quality school art programs.  Demonstrated outcomes of art education are the development of critical thinking skills, self-esteem, appreciation of the work of others, self-expression and cooperative working skills.  Please join the Museum in celebrating these up-and-coming artists.