On the Money

Santa Barbara Museum of Art hosted the 39th annual Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara art scholarship exhibition featuring works by 29 winning students, who each receive $2,500 toward future education.

Seventy youngsters submitted works – sculptures, collages, oils, and other media – judged by City College lecturer Anthony Askew, art author and mosaic artist Patti Jacquemain, and Judy Larson, director of the Westmont Museum of Art.

San Marcos High School senior Miguel Sota won the Maryan Schall family “best of show” prize for his oil portrait, having submitted two oils, a watercolor, and a paper design. His scholarship was $3,500.

One of the more interesting works was a chain mail shirt, which took student Evan Boger, a senior at Providence High School, two and half years to make.

Raissa Smorol, the foundation’s director of development, Patsy Hicks, the museum’s director of education, and Frederick Janka, executive director of the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, addressed the 160 guests, including Joanne Holderman, Nancy Schlosser, Ryan and Angela Siemens, Barbara Askew, Chris and Solveig Chandler, and Garrett and Ginny Speirs at the launch reception.

The works hang at the museum through Thursday, March 15.