Willowbrook senior earns state-level art award

On Nov. 17, Willowbrook senior Arianna Sanchez participated in the Illinois High School Art Exhibition (IHSAE) / ArtConnectED Art Throwdown competition and earned 2nd place in the photography category (pictured above).

The Art Throwdown is a live, fast-paced visual arts event, where students put their artistic skills to the test in a competition against other area high schoolers. Each artist is given 90 minutes to complete a hands-on, visually creative challenge in various art disciplines and media such as drawing, painting, design, sculpture and digital photography.

The prompt for Sanchez’s contest was “Oops,” and participants had to create and edit a triptych that depicted this theme. For more information, go to https://www.artconnected.org.