CURRENTLY ON EXHIBIT

Gallery hours are Monday – Thursday, 9:00AM – 3:00PM. Lake Region Arts Council is closed Friday through Sunday.

Please email LRAC4@LRACgrants.org or call us at 1-800-262-2787 or 218-739-5780 before you visit the gallery, to ensure that the gallery is open that day.

In the Main and Office Gallery:

6A High School Art Competition Exhibition

  • Monday, March 30 – Thursday, April 23, 2026

  • Reception Friday, April 24, 2026 - 6:00-7:00PM

The Lake Region Arts Council is proud to exhibit selected artwork from this year's High School 6A Minnesota State Visual Arts Exhibition and Competition. This is a yearly competition that showcases the best artwork from high school students throughout the state. Students compete at a regional and then state level. Entries are judged on the quality of the artwork and the student's artist statement. Regional winners will go on to compete at the State 6A statewide competition.

This annual exhibition at the LRAC Gallery, is juried by LRAC Gallery Curator, Naomi RaMona Schliesman, and features student work in a variety of categories, including:

  • Drawing

  • Painting

  • Sculpture

  • Digital Photography

  • Fiber Art

  • Computer-Based Artwork

  • Printmaking

  • Ceramics

  • 2D Mixed Media

  • Collage

  • Graphic Design

These activities are made possible by the voters of Minnesota through Lake Region Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

About Lake Region Arts Council: Lake Region Arts Council is a non-profit organization dedicated to encourage and support the vitality of the arts. LRAC accomplishes this through providing grants to community organizations and individual artists in the region and providing a monthly ArtsNews letter, workshops and technical assistance.

LRAC serves the counties of: Becker, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Otter Tail, Pope, Stevens, Traverse and Wilkin Counties in west central Minnesota.