Featured in the museum’s Welcome Gallery, the Student Art Show is a non-competitive display of student artwork open to all students (PreK – Grade 12) in public and private schools, as well as home-schooled students. Showcasing hundreds of pieces of art, the theme for this year’s Student Art Show is “Living Patterns” – because if you look closely enough, patterns are everywhere in nature. From the symmetry on a butterfly’s wings, to the striped coloration on a smallmouth bass, nature is made up of patterns. For the 2020 Student Art Show, the Ward Museum asked students to find a pattern in nature that inspired them; whether that pattern was symmetry, spots and stripes, spirals, or even fractals. Student submitted artwork includes paintings, drawings, pastels, crayons, photography, sculpture, and more.
