"You always hear the negative about teenagers," said Holly Turner, executive director of Casper’s Nicolaysen Art Museum. "This is a positive."She’s referring to an exhibit at the NIC of more than 100 works by Natrona County High School art students. The NIC exhibit closes Thursday, April 11, with a 5-8 p.m. reception that will feature performances by NCHS bands, choirs, orchestras, guitar ensembles and drama groups.
Sheila McHattie, an art teacher at NCHS, started displaying her students' art in the NIC 15 years ago. She feels kids need to see their work in a museum and have it exposed to the public's sometimes adoring, sometimes critical eye. The piece shown above is "Where Fire Meets Water" by NCHS junior Ellie Shobak (photo by Ryan Soderlin, Star-Tribune). Read more about the exhibit in an article by reporter Hannah Weist in the April 7 Casper Star-Tribune.
