Skyline Takes Top Honors at Young Metroplex Talent Art Show

Every year in January, Mountain View Community College sponsors the “Young Metropolex Talent” High School Art Show. The show features artworks from both public and private schools. This year, the show ran from January 16 – February 2, 2007 in the Kiva Gallery, which is near the school’s art studios. Molina High School, Sunset High School, and Skyline High School represented Dallas ISD in this year’s exhibition. Each participating school submitted four works -- either 2-D, 3-D, or a combination of both.

This year the judges decided that instead of giving awards for individual work, they would look at each school’s work as a team effort. This year’s juror, humanities Professor Janice Franklin, said that she looked at the individual strengths of each art work as well as how all the art worked together to strengthen each other or explore a common theme.

Ms. Franklin selected the work submitted by Robert Ostrowski at Skyline Center as the school that best met her criteria. Skyline submitted a coil pot, two metal sculptures, and a Styrofoam figure sculpture. She liked how all the work showed movement and fluidity.

For winning, Skyline received the Fetty Visual Art trophy to display for one year at the campus. Student winners received a basket of art supplies, gift certificates to Chili’s, gift certificates to Landmark Theatres, tickets to Dallas Museum of Art, and tickets to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Each student also received a written appraisal of their work that included the names of artists the students should look at for influence.

The show was small this year but Ryan Fitzer, gallery coordinator at Mountain View, hopes more schools will enter next year. If you are interested in this show for next year, contact Ryan Fitzer by phone, 214-860-3649 or e-mail rfitzer@dcccd.edu. To view pictures of the exhibit, visit http://www.mountainviewcollege.edu/gallery.