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Young artists win big at state competition

Work of CHS seniors selected from 200 entries

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The artwork of two local students was among just a handful of winners picked from more than 200 entries that came from school districts around the state as part of The Superintendent’s High School Art Show competition.

There were 11 state winners, including CHS seniors Whitney Austin who took home the Washington Art Education Association Tribute Award for her untitled photograph and Kristi Valentine, whose work “Journal of a Most Peculiar Voyage,” was a Jury Choice winner.

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