Grade 6 student Akena Nelson won second place in the vocal solo category. (Submitted photo/Kara Ross)

By Derek Cornet

award winners

SMVS collects 23 medals at PAGC Fine Arts Festival

Apr 29, 2024 | 4:35 PM

Students at the Lac La Ronge Indian Band’s Senator Myles Venne School (SMVS) collected 23 medals at the 31st annual Prince Albert Grand Council Fine Arts Festival.

That’s according to Kara Ross, who is an SMVS teacher and a fine arts representative at the school for more than 10 years. She explained the medal haul was a really good performance for students at SMVS.

“I think it is really important for us to give students the chance to showcase their talents and their culture and just give them that sense of ownership and that they belong and what they do is important,” Ross said.

The festival occurred April 22-25 at the Prince Albert Exhibition Grounds. It included more than 1,500 students from 26 schools amongst the Prince Albert Grand Council district.

Senator Myles Venne School students who won an award are Krista Roberts-McLean (first place, mixed medium art), Akena Nelson (second place, vocal solo), Cora Clarke (first place, woodwork), Katy Halkett (second place, sculpture), Jozie Halkett (first place, sculpture), Catherine Roberts (first place, reports), Cordell Cook (first place, essays) and Dino Cook-Bird (second place, essays).

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Members of the 2024 Prince Albert Grand Council Fine Arts Festival Committee. (Submitted photo/Kara Ross)

Katy Halkett (third place, pen and ink), Tara McLeod (third place, watercolour), Dino Cook-Bird (second place, chalk), Clarisa Ratt (third place, chalk), Chaz McKenzie (second place, collage), Roman Ratt (first place, pencil crayon), Shontay Halkett (first place, social message poster).

Ada Mirasty (first place, non-fired clay sculpture), Emily Aldridge (3D sculpture), Rhonda Ross (second place, poetry), Eugene Sanderson (third place, poetry), Eugene Sanderson (first place, short story), Rhonda Ross (third place, essays), Shylo Halkett (third place, charcoal art), and Bianca Caribou (second place, chalk).

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derek.cornet@pattisonmedia.com