ArtSpace/Lima will host the 30th annual Kewpee High School Art Invitational from Feb. 23 to April 7. Eight Ada students have had 9 pieces selected.

Sumaya Tasnim had two pieces selected while Calle Young, Johnathan Rettig, Keli Trudeau, Klava Katayama, Kendal Guagenti, Kylie Guagenti, and Noah Mattson each had one piece selected.

An opening reception will be held on Friday, Feb. 23 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Kewpee hamburgers and cheeseburgers will be served at the reception, as well as Februcherry pie.  Awards will be presented at 7:15 p.m.

The exhibit will feature cash awards in various categories, including sculpture, ceramics, photography, painting, digital media, printmaking, mixed media,  jewelry, and drawing.  

Harry Shutt and the Kewpee Restaurants of Lima sponsor the show as they have since its inception more than a quarter century ago.
 
This year 22 area high schools are represented in the upcoming exhibit with 290 students entering 395 pieces with 101 works by 88 students accepted into the exhibit.
 
Jurors for the exhibit were Anita Lehman, studio artist and retired Lima City Schools art teacher, and Laura Barnhardt Corle, studio artist and adjunct professor at the University of Findlay.
 

ArtSpace/Lima is a not-for-profit arts organization with a mission to promote the arts in northwest Ohio and to provide artists with a venue to present and sell their work.   ArtSpace/Lima is supported in part by a grant from the Ohio Arts Council.