FEBRUARY 10, 2017, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A5
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Best of McNary art
on display by KAA
Submitted
Annie Purkey, blue ribbon, qualifi ed for state in solo acting on Saturday, Feb. 4. Josiah Henifi n,
back, yellow ribbons, Emma Blanco and Skyla Cawthon were all regional fi nalists.
McNary actors fi nish in top
10, 20 percent at regionals
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
Four McNary students
brought back ribbons from
the Oregon Thespian South-
ern Regional Acting Com-
petition on Saturday, Feb. 4 at
Central High School.
Senior Annie Purkey, per-
forming two monologues
from the plays Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern Are Dead and The
Merchant of Venice, fi nished in
SALEM
the top 10 percent of 77 en-
tries to qualify for the state
festival in April.
Seniors Emma Blanco and
Skyla Cawthon were both re-
gional fi nalists in solo musical,
placing in the top 20 percent
in their category. Blanco also
teamed up with Josiah Heni-
fi n to fi nish in the top 20 per-
cent in duet musical.
The Southern Regional
Acting Competition included
386 entries from 28 schools
south of the 45th parallel in
Oregon.
McNary’s fall production
of Defying Gravity was also
picked as one of two plays, out
of 11 shows submitted, to be
performed at the state festival
on Friday, April 7, at the Salem
Convention Center.
Purkey will compete in
solo acting on Thursday, April
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By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
McNary art teacher Todd
Layton congratulated all the
students who participated in
the annual Keizer Art Asso-
ciation show, which had its
reception on Saturday, Feb.
4, saying that of the 600 kids
that take art at the high school,
“You guys have risen to the
top.”
At the very top was junior
Maddie Weathers, who won
Best in Show for her drawing
of a dog wearing a hat.
“I really like art so to win
is special,” said Weathers, who
was inspired by similar photo-
graphs of dogs wearing hats,
including one of her own dog
taken in Sunriver.
She said the drawing took
fi ve to six hours. Her other
two submissions were of pen-
guins and a frog.
“I like animals. They are a
lot easier to draw than peo-
ple,” Weathers said.
Brooke Ridgway also took
home a ribbon for an animal
piece. Her work, Delilah, an
acrylic painting of a cow in a
pasture, won second place in
the two-dimensional category.
She got the idea while
driving past the cow pasture
in Keizer to visit her grand-
mother.
“I thought they were cute
and I really want to work on
nature pieces because I haven’t
done a whole lot of that lately,”
Ridgway said. “It turned out
really well. I was really proud.”
The piece took about 10
hours to complete.
“I like old lady names and
I thought it was an old cow,”
Ridgway said of naming the
cow Delilah.
The show, which was
judged by KAA board mem-
bers Carol Harris and John
DeJarnatt, will remain on
display upstairs in the Keizer
Heritage Center, 980 Chema-
wa Rd. NE, through Feb. 25.
Both Layton and fellow
MHS art instructor Mark
Kohley were appreciative of
the Keizer Art Association.
“It’s defi nitely the nicest
show that our students par-
ticipate in,” Kohley said. “This
is really a great showcase for
McNary High School and op-
portunity Keizer Art Associa-
tion gives us.”
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
TOP: Maddie Weathers won Best in Show for her drawing Dog.
BOTTOM: Brooke Ridgway took second in the two-dimensional
category for her painting of a cow named Delilah.
Complete list of winners in-
cluded:
TWO-DIMENSIONAL
• First place: Abe by Annie Pur-
key
• Second: Delilah by Brooke
Ridgway
• Third: Tree of Life by Rhea
Peig
• Juror’s Merit Award: Teddy by
Annie Purkey and Irresistible by
Shania Walls
• Honorable Mention: Night
Escape by Zena Greenwald,
Osaka Castle by Sophia Olsen
and Remember Me by Gretchen
Meyer
THREE-DIMENSIONAL
• First: Once Upon a Time by So-
nia Cuevas
• Second: Triangular Vase by
Willow Shamain
• Third: Fruit Stack by Alison
Repp and Hannah Lauden
• Juror’s Merit: Catch Your
Dreams by Zena Greenwald
and Say Ahhh by Ashton Gei-
ger Smith
• Honorable Mention: The
Purple Base by Willow Shamain,
Don’t Just Stand There by Madi-
son Munro and Obsidian Red
by Maria Vargas
PHOTOGRAPHY
• First: Refl ecting Tree by Jordan
Marshall
• Second: Audri by Sophia Sa-
linas
• Third: Gorge by Ian
Ovchinikov
• Juror’s Merit: Vision of Self
by Elizabeth Barleson, Fiery
Sunsets by Taylor Johnson and
Ripple by McKenzie Beard.
• Honorable Mention: A Day
in the Snow by Valerie Diede,
Beachy by Sarah Eckert and Red
Barn in Winter by Nicole Duran