SEQUIM — Scores of parents, grandparents and friends filled the Museum & Arts Center earlier this month to see Clallam County’s young artists receive honors for their work in the 17th annual Sequim Arts Student Show.
The show had its opening reception the same night — Feb. 4 — as downtown Sequim’s First Friday Art Walk.
Its 135 paintings, sculptures and other creations by 87 artists will stay on display through Saturday, Feb. 26, at the MAC, 175 W. Cedar St.
The display, along with other exhibits at the MAC, is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays.
Top awards went to Sequim High School junior Patrick Carpenter for his acrylic titled “Artist at Work” in the senior division for ninth- through 12th-graders and to Pablo Van Renterghem for his blown-glass vessel titled “Flowing Water” in the junior division for students in middle school.
Port Angeles High School sophomore Hope Crandall and Mountain View Christian sixth-grader Jeremiah Omann each won the Sequim Arts President’s Award in their divisions.
The MAC Director’s Award went to Sequim High School senior Sage Brown and Sequim Middle School sixth-grader Jaycee Porrazzo.
Brown and Port Angeles High School senior Brandon Standley both received the Emerging Artist Award, a prize presented by Sequim Arts, a nonprofit devoted to promoting fine art in the Dungeness Valley.
The Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society also presented three awards for bird-themed art, which will be exhibited during the Olympic BirdFest at the Dungeness River Audubon Center in April.
Brown won the category’s top award for her eagle charcoal titled “Head On.”
Second place went to Sequim Middle School seventh-grader Mariam Davitadze for her colored-pencil drawing titled “Owl,” while Sequim High School sophomore Miriam Hazel’s pen-and-ink image titled “Quoth the Raven” placed third.
The complete list of honorees and show participants — with photo galleries of the award-winning pieces, the awards ceremony and the Student Art Show opening reception — can be found on the MAC website, www.macsequim.org, and on Sequim Arts’ website, www.sequimarts.org.
For more information, phone the museum at 360-683-8110.