BCOE hosted it’s 9TH annual Superintendent’s High School Art Show and returned to an in-person awards ceremony for the first time since 2020. The exhibit and awards ceremony was held at Chico State’s Gallery A located in the Arts and Humanities building, with a live performance by the Chico High School jazz ensemble. 

Each Butte County High School art teacher is invited to submit up to five student works for the art show, sponsored by the BCOE Visual and Performing Arts Program with funding from the California County Superintendents’ Arts Initiative. This year, there were 99 submissions, each judged by a three-member panel that awarded 1st, 2nd, 3rd place and an honorable mention awards in three categories: Demonstrated Skill in a Medium, Evidence of Innovation, and Emphasis on Exploration, and a Best in Show award. 

Special thanks to participating schools and their Visual Art Teachers: Chico High School, CORE Butte Charter School, Fairview High School, Gridley High School, Hearthstone School, Inspire School of Arts & Sciences, Las Plumas High School, Oroville High School, Paradise High School, and Pleasant Valley High School. And thanks to the Chico State

Department of Art and Art History as well as judges Cameron Kelly (Chico Art Center Gallery Directory), Tiffany McCarter (Director of the African American Family and Cultural Center), and Reta Rickmers (Artist and Educator).