Addison Conley, 16, said she had never won anything in her life until last week.
Then, on Friday, one of her artworks was tapped “Best in Show” in the city’s biggest student art contest. It’s called the Chattanooga Youth Gallery and it’s sponsored by the Tennessee Valley Credit Union.
Student work from more than 20 area public and private high schools was featured in the juried art exhibition that was on display last weekend at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center on M.L. King Boulevard. More than 125 artworks were featured.
Mark Kennedy“It was really cool to be up there on stage with a bunch of people who had really amazing art,” said Conley, a junior at Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences.
Conley won the top prize for a mixed-media piece made from scraps of newsprint. The artwork was a riff on the missing-children-on-milk-cartoon campaigns of the 1980s.