(Above: The Treacherous Path by Autumn Garibay is one of many artworks by teens on display at the Maude Kerns Art Center as part of the 2023 Mayor’s Teen Art Show. Another of Garibay’s creations, Hide and Seek, won a juror’s award in the contest.)

Edited by Randi Bjornstad

Pentaclops by Troy Sproul, created with prismacolor pencils and white ink, was named Best in Show for 2023

The results are in for the 24th annual Mayor’s Teen Art Show on display at the Maude Kerns Art Center, featuring works by 41 teenagers from 19 area schools. The show runs through Sept. 29.

Jurors for the show included artists and art educators Amy Albrecht, Diane Hill, and Diana Patin, who chose the awards from artworks created with a dizzying array of mediums, including crayons, alcohol markers, fabric markers, acrylic, charcoal, graphite, linocut print, sharpies, watercolor, oil, mixed media, photography, digital art, polymer clay, fabric, ceramics, paper mâché, wire, sticker gems, fur, clay paper, ink, copic markers, gouache, oil pastels, plastic bags, and denim scraps.

The pieces selected by for special acknowledgement include:

  • Best in Show — Pentaclops by Troy Sproul
  • Mayor’s Choices — Morning Glory by Alison Glock and Diagnosed by Natalee Paul
  • Juror’s Choice — A Moon’s Gambol by Luka La Roche
  • Juror’s Choice — Hide and Seek by Autumn Garibay
  • Juror’s Choice — Gathering by Maggie Wang
  • Title Sponsor’s Choice — Generation by River Caswell
  • Maude Kerns Art Center Choice — Pomegranates on a Table by Breanna Hill

The title sponsor for the 2023 Mayor’s Teen Art Show is the Susi Larsen and Cameron Serbu Memorial Scholarship Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation.

All of the artwork can be viewed online on the art center’s website at mkartcenter.org.

(Eugene) Mayor’s Teen Art Show

When: Through Sept. 29, 2023

Where: Maude Kerns Art Center, 1910 E. 15th Ave., Eugene (corner of 15th and Villard streets)

Hours: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, noon to 4 p.m. Saturday when exhibits are on display

Morning Glory (left) by Alison Glock and Diagnosed (right) by Natalee Paul shared the Mayor’s Choice Award in the Mayor’s Teen Art Show for 2023.