2025 Muskingum County K–12 STUDENT Art Exhibition

Deadline for submissions is April 12.

Opens Sunday, April 27, 2025

Great Gallery, 2nd Floor

The annual Muskingum County K–12 Student Art Exhibition, on view April 27–May 10, 2025, is a celebration of local student artwork. Featuring work from Muskingum County students from public and private schools, home-school students, and local art education organizations, this is one of the ZMA’s most anticipated events.

Exhibition Opening:

Sunday, April 27, 1:00–4:00 pm, in the Great Gallery.

Awards Ceremonies:

Grades K–5: 2pm
Grades 6–12: 3pm

Free and open to the public.

Enjoy complimentary refreshments and live music while viewing a wide range of artwork from area schools.

Overflow parking and shuttle services will be available at Trinity United Presbyterian Church. Shuttle service provided by the Rocker Limo & Bus Service.

This year, the ZMA and the city of Zanesville Mayor’s Office will honor student artistic achievement by awarding ten outstanding works of art from elementary, intermediate, middle school, and high school categories the museum’s Avant-Garde Award. Students and art educators are encouraged to attend the awards ceremonies to receive the awards presented by Zanesville Mayor Don Mason and ZMA Board President John Matesich. Also this year, one student will be awarded the inaugural Youth Ceramics Heritage Award. This award highlights student achievements in ceramics while also recognizing Zanesville’s heritage as the Clay City and the Pottery Capital of the World in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The ZMA is excited to welcome Jill Crowe and Regina Williams as this year’s guest jurors for the 2025 K-12 Student Art Exhibition.

Jill Crowe: A Newark artist and educator, graduated from Newark High School in 1975 receiving the Outstanding Senior Art Student Award. She went on to Bowling Green State University receiving numerous art awards in college exhibits. She graduated in 1979 with bachelor’s degrees in fine arts and art education. Jill was hired that same year to teach art at Newark High School. She taught drawing, painting, art appreciation, design, commercial design, jewelry arts, and some ceramics and sculpture. It was a privilege and pleasure for her to work at Newark High School for 35 years. Jill retired in 2014 and continues to teach art classes for children and adults and offer private lessons. Jill hopes to continue offering art experiences and workshops to benefit special groups, some of which have included Breast Cancer, College Scholarships, Aging Programs, and the Licking County Humane Society. Jill is currently president of the Licking County Art Association and a member of Southeastern Ohio Watercolor Society and Ohio Watercolor Society. She also served as the juror for the 2024 Y-Bridge Arts Festival artist awards.

Regina Williams: I Graduated from The Ohio State University with a Masters in Early and Middle Childhood Development. I retired from Central Ohio Technical College as Director/Faculty of the Associate Degree Early Childhood Education Program. I enjoyed teaching the Creative Curriculum course for young children.  I continue to be an advocate for Project based learning for young children having studied the Reggio Emilia Approach to early educational practices. I have taken several college level art courses. I am a lifelong learner, currently taking water color classes.I enjoy exploring and creating with numerous mediums. Being involved as a volunteer board member and docent for Licking County Art Association inspires me to think creatively and challenges me to practice with various materials.  I have worked on projects with fabric, felt, drawing, painting, and photography to capture a subject. I am inspired by nature, the humor in life and what makes me smile as I compose and create.  The challenge of learning about a new medium allows me to experience a fresh way of seeing, sometimes taking the same subject and recreating it with various art techniques.  I have written and illustrated three children’s books dedicated to my grandchildren.