For the first time ever, artwork created by an Indian Lake Middle School student will hang on the walls of the Ohio Department of Education.
Eighth-grader Emma Taylor was chosen as an honored artist for the 45th Annual Youth Art Month Art Exhibition with a landscape painting. That exhibition was earlier in March at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus.
Her acrylic landscape painting was recently selected as one of 30 from the 250 artworks that were exhibited at the Youth Art Month Exhibition and the Young People’s Art Exhibition that are sponsored by the Ohio Art Education Association to be on display at the Ohio Department of Education building in downtown Columbus.
“This is a huge honor for Emma to be chosen as one of the top artists in Ohio. I am so proud of her and her accomplishments,” said Rebecca Dotson, Indian Lake Middle School art teacher.
“She is a wonderful artist and I’m so grateful to have her in my art class,”
“I am excited about this honor,” said Emma, who is involved in the gifted visual art program and choir at Indian Lake. “I love painting landscapes and sunsets. I find acrylic paint to be easier to use than oil paints.
“My goal is to take art in high school and be an art teacher.”
The display at the Ohio Department of Education will be up until April 1.