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Student Exhibitions

Annual Children’s Art Exhibition

Local K-8  students are invited to submit artwork for our annual Children’s art exhibition! Teachers can submit class works or individual artists are invited to submit!  Teachers, artists, and  families are invited to attend a Free opening reception!

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Children’s Art Exhibition 2024: Totally Terrific Textures! 
  • Entries + forms accepted February 6-24, 2024. 
  • Exhibit run: March 8 – April 13, 2024
  • FREE Reception: Thursday, March 7, 5-7 pm (youth artists, + 2 adult guests)
  • Theme: Totally Terrific Textures!

    Fuzzy, bumpy, gritty, or smooth – texture is the way something feels when it is touched, or the way it looks like it would feel if it could be touched. Students create their own work of art that demonstrates the use of texture in a realistic or creative way for this exhibition. 

  • Eligibility: Kindergarten through eighth grade students may enter art pieces, created between August 2023 – February 2024. 2-D art must be no larger than 12”x18”. It is suggested that it be mounted on or matted with colored construction paper, but should not framed. 3-D art is also eligible. Larger pieces accepted only as exhibit space allows. Contact Kathy Martin, Director of Education, at education@hockadaymuseum.com with any questions about this exhibition.  Only one entry per person accepted -this includes collaboration pieces.

  • To Enter: Complete an entry form. Check to make sure you have included an artist statement about how texture is used/found in your piece & a title for your piece. Attach it to back or bottom of artwork. Deliver art to the Museum located at 302 Second Avenue East, Kalispell, MT.  Students or their teachers may submit art for this exhibition.  Entries accepted February 6-24, 2024. 

  • Art selected for display are determined by how well they represent the theme and available gallery space.

    In order to help us create the best collection of artwork possible, we ask teachers submitting art on behalf of their class to make a pre-selection of entries to alleviate excessive examples of the same art project.  Collaborative pieces larger than 12” x 18” accepted with prior approval by Hockaday Museum Education Department.

NEW ARTISTS: ANNUAL HIGH SCHOOL ART EXHIBITION

Art faculty from area high schools select works of art* from the current school year that represent the best artistic endeavors of their students to be included in this annual exhibition at the Hockaday. Three awards are given in conjunction with the show: the Curator’s Choice Award for 2-D Art, the Curator’s Choice Award for 3-D Art, and the People’s Choice Award. 

Note: If you are a homeschool student and would like to submit a work/ participate, please contact the museum: Kathy Martin education@hockadaymuseum.com

*All artwork for this exhibition is selected by teachers at participating schools, not by the Hockaday Museum of Art staff. The Hockaday Museum of Art staff is not responsible for which works are selected. 

Past K-8 Exhibitions

Rhythm in Art: Children’s Art Exhibition 2023

As interpreted by kindergarten through eighth grade students, RHYTHM is the focus of this exhibition. Artworks on display show how regular, alternating, progressive, flowing, and random rhythm are used to create movement, pattern, and emotion.  

Looking for Light: Children’s Art Exhibition 2022

Artists play with light, both as a subject and as a tool.  It can be used to create dramatic or subdued effects.  The source of light defines colors, creates shading, and is used to create perspective and space in pictures. Light can be used as symbolism within a work of art. Optical illusions can be produced using the contrast between light and dark.  In addition to making things visible, light can be used to evoke emotions. This exhibit shows how light is used to create effects within art or as the subject of an artwork.  

 All Manner of Shapes: Children’s Art Exhibition 2021

In artworks, you can also create them by changes in color, space, or light. Some shapes are geometric and have names such as circle, square, or triangle. Organic shapes which are irregular and free-form often suggest things from the natural world, like plants and animals. This exhibition celebrates all the ways shapes are found in art.

                                   So Many Patterns: Children’s Art Exhibition 2020

This exhibit focused on the theme of patterns as decoration, a composition technique, or as an entire artwork.

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