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Great Frame-Up showcases ETHS artists

Artworks by 25 student artists from Evanston Township High School will be on display from March 28 through April 11 in a special exhibition at the Evanston Great Frame-Up store, 2814 Central St. An opening-night reception begins at 7pm.

 

These pieces in five categories—drawing, painting, graphics, photography, and 3-D—were selected as entrants to The Lisa Show 2012, sponsored by the Great Frame-Up. Each spring, seven Chicago-area Great Frame-Up stores sponsor 27 juried art exhibitions for their adopted high schools (the Evanston store hosts exhibitions for ETHS, New Trier, and Niles North and West). The stores frame the students’ art and showcase the entries for two to three weeks.   

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Five ETHS winners, one in each category, will be named best-of-show winners and will join artworks by winners from other local art exhibitions at a Best-of-the-Best exhibition on May 20. Winners at the local level receive cash prizes and compete for scholarships at the May exhibition. This year the Great Frame-Up will give away over $100,000 in art supplies and scholarships.

The LISA (Life is Simply Art) Show began in 1995. Originally known as the Creative Self-Expression Show, the program was renamed in 2003 in memory of artist Lisa Klitzky, daughter of Great Frame-Up founders David and Marlow Klitzky, who died of cancer in 2002. The Lisa Show has received national recognition over the years, and 40 pieces of art from various shows are currently on display at the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital distinguished gallery. 

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ETHS students whose artworks will be exhibited are: Drawing—Max Metzler, Mairead Rosati, Sarah Shiffrin, Aja Kleves, and Marc Ferrero; Painting—Christa Culbert, Lauren Cooper, Katie Latimore, Moriah Weiss-Foronda, and Rachel Schumm; Graphics—Abigail Julcher, Mary Kate Marchesi, Jane Seibold, Steve Chaney, and AC Martell; Photography—Marc Bouchet, Olivia Davies, Kelly Russo, Quincy Clegg, and Lucas Vasilko; and 3D—Elain ap’Morrygan, Phoebe Metz, Rosa Novak, Brook Schroeder, and Beatrice Ajighevi.

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