COLUMBUS — Unique young artists with strong recycling voices and enthusiasm for keeping our community clean entered their artwork in this year’s Keep Columbus Beautiful Youth Art Show, which are currently on exhibit in the Laura Ann Rau Gallery of the Live Oak Art Center in Columbus.
Keep Columbus Beautiful and the Columbus Garden Club sponsored the 2025 Youth Art Show, open to area artists in grades 1 through 8.
The event features the first poster contest and recycled materials art, focusing on encouraging youth to help keep our planet green by taking an active role in anti-littering, recycling, and conservation.
Please Don’t Litter; Reduce, Reuse, Recycle; Don’t be a Litter Bug, and Keep Columbus Beautiful were featured themes in posters, while artists utilized recyclable materials to create art for the recycled art division.
The exhibits will be showcased in the Laura Ann Rau Gallery through today (Sept. 25).
The public is invited.
Keep Columbus Beautivul Youth Art Show winners include, front row, from left, Rhonda Schonenberg, Lawson Werland, Theron Belota, Therodore Belota, Kyria Waddell; second row, Kyla Arrisun, Kinslee Carr, Tadeas Thompson, Kaelee Carr, Trey Schonenberg; and, back row, Keep Columbus Beautiful representative Marian Schonenberg, Live Oak Art Center Director Erin Storey, and, Columbus Garden Club representative Wanda Anglin.
