LSN Competes in the Annual Raymore-Peculiar Art Invitational

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   Lee’s Summit North boasts an elaborate art program, offering general art classes, media-focused art classes, and advanced art classes. The media-focused art classes consist of painting, drawing, graphic design, and ceramics. This year, the LSN art department sent art students from a range of classes to the annual Raymore-Peculiar Art Invitational. 

   One of the competitors was Khanya Nkomo, junior. 

   “It was nice to see people use different art mediums,” Nkomo said.

   There are two different types of competition within the invitational. One of these competitions was the Visual Art Show. This is where students sent their completed artwork to be judged in categories based on their media. The media categories were drawing, painting, printmaking, non-digital design, ceramics, 2D mixed media, fibers, photography, digital media, and 3D Sculpture. 

   The other competition was the Studio Competition. Selected art students competed in categories based on their strengths. The competitors were given a prompt or a figure to base their work on and two hours to complete the piece. The categories were drawing still life, figure drawing, painting still life, hand-building ceramics, wheel throwing ceramics, relief printmaking, digital media, and 3D sculpture. 

   “I thought it was cool to see how many ways a theme can be interpreted and seeing what people can make in two hours,” Nkomo said.

   LSN had multiple competitors that placed in their categories. The LSN art department is very happy with how the competition turned out and can not wait to compete again next year. 

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