WCS Wins Best of Show and Gold Medal at Annual Houston Livestock Show and
Rodeo Art Competition
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WCS art students exhibit their art pieces for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Art Competition. |
(January 2009) For the seventh consecutive year Westbury Christian School has participated in the annual Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Art Competition. Sixteen pieces were submitted this year including two elementary school submissions, six middle school and eight high school pieces. According to art instructor Karen Keese, “God gave us great success again this year. We brought back three blue ribbons, seven red ribbons, three white ribbons, one Best of Show and one Gold Medal.”
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo School Art Program, which began in 1964, has more than 300,000 entries each year. Since 1964, the School Art Program has received more than seven million entries. Participants range from kindergarten through 12th grade. Student artists must submit an original project based on Western culture, history or heritage.
WCS entries competed in the Texas Private and Parochial category. Two Gold Medals and two Best of Shows are awarded to elementary school, middle school and high school levels. Keese said, “It’s significant for us to win two of the possible six outstanding awards.” WCS junior Jessica Ngo submitted the Best of Show piece which was titled “Shielding” and was a color pencil on paper depicting a mother sheep with her baby lamb at her side. The Gold Medal piece was submitted by WCS eighth grader Kellie Keese. Her drawing was a color pencil and oil pastels on paper titled “Peek-A-Boo” which featured a ram looking through a wooden fence.
WCS ribbon recipients included second grader Matthew Ford and third grader Olivia Swasey. Middle school awardees included Evan Ledet, Kaitlyn Vickery, Katherine Harper, Elizabeth Pollard and Kyle Cragle. High school honorees were Betsy Kelly, Kylee Fabian, Daelyn Richardson, Nicholas Leonard, Paris Lake, Jenny Banh and Jessica Ngo.
Every participant in the School Art Program is a winner, receiving a certificate of merit signed by the Show president, and a blue, red or white ribbon for achievement. Special recognition is bestowed upon selected works and the artists who created them. The “Best of Show,” “Gold Medal” and “Special Merit” winners have their work prominently displayed in the Show’s Hayloft Gallery throughout the run of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Art Competition.
Karen Keese said, “My students are wonderful and have been very dedicated and diligent workers this year.”
Westbury Christian School is a private, college preparatory, fully accredited, culturally diverse school offering unique educational opportunities for pre-k, elementary, middle and high school students. The school is located at 10420 Hillcroft at Willowbend.
For more information contact Ann Arnold in the Admissions Office at 713-551-8100.
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