Cheney's Jacobsen wins state art award

Cheney High School freshman Johnathen Jacobsen wasn't even going to enter his award-winning ceramic piece titled "Sun" in the state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction's annual Superintendent's High School Art Show.

That distinction fell to another piece, until a fellow art class student accidentally tripped over the spinning wheel Jacobsen was using to work on the piece, causing it to fall and shatter.

"He just went silent," high school art teacher Rebecca Dempsey said.

That piece was a big bowl, and Jacobson tried his best to recreate it. When that didn't pan out, he went to h...

 

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