Irvington Community School students take statewide art contest

Award-winning artwork by seven students from Irvington Community School is on display at the Indiana State Museum. The display, which lasts to May 10, follows about 6 weeks when the artwork was on display in the Oval Promenade Gallery in the Hilbert Circle Theatre (home of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra).

The Irvington students were among 100 selected as finalists in the Symphony in Color competition, which is open to elementary-age students throughout Indiana.

The seven students represented the greatest number of honors for a single school, which gave Irvington Community top prize, the Maestro Award from the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra at an Awards Tea in early March.

More than 35,000 elementary-age students submit artwork each year; each school is allowed to submit up to seven works, which means all seven Irvington students who submitted work were named as finalists. Of the seven, four received blue ribbons.

The students who won blue ribbons are: Brendan Clark (1st grade), Jayde Tyler (2nd grade), Eva Watson (4th grade), and Alyssa Meyer (6th grade). The three other entries were created by Piper Kelly, 3rd grade; Alex Urbanek, 4th grade; and Zoe Browne, 5th grade.