"Arts teachers invest significant energy, skill, and passion everyday with their students. Pieces of Gold/Gifts of Gold is an exciting celebration of that investment which is fostered by a powerful collaboration between Arts Education and the Wake Education Partnership."
Elizabeth Grimes Droessler
Sr. Administrator,
Arts Education
Wake Schools
2012 Gifts of Gold
A special thank you to more than 90 Wake County public school students who participated in the 2012 Gifts of Gold art show and congratulations to those selected by this year's judges to represent each category.
The Raleigh Arts Commission partnered with Wake Education Partnership and the school district to support Gifts of Gold in 2012, which will include a showing of the works from all participants. The artwork can be viewed March 13th and March 14th in the lobby of Memorial Auditorium in Raleigh.
The First Place entries from 2012 are shown below.

First Place - Elementary School
Julie Kye
Forest Pines Drive Elementary
Jennifer Ganzel Sherman, teacher

First Place - Middle School
Josh Grantham
Apex Middle School
Ronnie Williams, teacher
First Place - High School
Lahari Pullakhandam
Enloe High School
Pay Puckett, teacher
3-D Art Award
Carolynne Yen
Green Hope High School
Melissa Poppe, teacher
Best in Show
Michael Kauffmann
Sanderson High School
Jeannette Stevenson, teacher
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