Thurlow, Almaria win at San Diego Art Institute show

Fallbrook first-grader Cameron Thurlow won second place and second-grader Gianeen Almaria won honorable mention in the kindergarten through second grade category at this year’s California Art Education Association (CAEA) Youth Art Month (YAM) Show at the San Diego Art Institute (SDAI) in Balboa Park.

In addition, first-grader Brandon Rodriguez, third-grader Kyle Murray and fifth-grader Colton Dapper were selected by a jury from the SDAI for the Spiazzi Achievement Award.

The event featured 149 works from 20 public, private, parochial and charter schools in San Diego County which fulfilled specifications for originality, composition, media technique and presentation.

These students, along with three other Fallbrook young people in the exhibit, studied with Marilee Ragland at the Art Campus at Fallbrook.

Other Fallbrook students whose works were accepted into the juried show were first-graders Cheyenne Laurance, who did a vegetable print bouquet called “Wyoming,” and fifth-graders Alexi Eich, whose original stamp and watercolor composition is “Animal Footprints,” and Kenya Rubio, who did a tempera still life painting, “Pumpkin and Pomegranates.”

This show will remain on exhibit until February 17.

The students and their families and friends are all invited to a reception and awards ceremony on February 10 from 2 to 4 p.m. All artists will be presented with a certificate of excellence and students who have won awards will be presented with their ribbons.

Thurlow’s painting will go into an exhibit (place to be announced) in which the winners who placed first, second or third from six other southern county YAM shows will also be showing.

The San Diego YAM show can be visited Tuesday through Saturday from 10 to 4 and Sunday from 12 to 4 p.m. The San Diego Art Institute is located across from the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park at 1439 El Prado.