Lake Land College Hosts Spring Art Show – Winners Announced

LLC.ArtShowWinners.JPG The student, staff and community winners of the 2026 Lake Land College Spring Art Show. Pictured first row (from left to right): Joy Kaurin, Charleston; Roxy Shelton, Strasburg; and Ozzy Gough, Ashmore. Pictured second row (from left to right): Kyra Hazleton, Effingham; Wesley McCoy, Neoga; Breanna Moore, Mattoon; and Bells Kegerreis, Mattoon. Not pictured: Andi Harrison, Martinsville, and Chris Strohl, Neoga. Photo submitted by Lake Land College

Lake Land College recently hosted its fifth annual Spring Art Show. The show included a total of 87 submissions from students, staff, faculty and artists throughout the Lake Land community.

All submissions were displayed from April 20-24 in the Luther Student Center, where spectators could view the submissions and vote for their favorites. The top-voted pieces received awards during a closing ceremony on April 24, where four award categories – 3D Art, 2D Art, Written Art and Audio/Visual Art – were presented with separate recognitions for student, staff and community submissions in each category.

The student award winners were Kyra Hazelton, Effingham, who received the 2D Award for “Siske” and the Written Award for “Well, Shoot,” and Andi Harrison, Martinsville, who received the 3D Award for “Iridescent Roses.”

For Lake Land College staff awards, Perkins Specialist Joy Kaurin, Charleston, received the 2D Award for “Moab.” The 3D Award was presented to Dean for Workforce Solutions & Community Education Chris Strohl, Neoga, for “Clara’s Heart.” IEL Instructor Bells Kegerreis, Mattoon, received the Audio/Visual Award for “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – The Last Stand.” The Written Award was presented to Student Success Specialist Breanna Moore for “The Prince and The Blood-Red Beast.”

Ozzy Gough, Ashmore, received the Community 2D Award for “God’s Creation.” The Community 3D Award went to Wesley McCoy, Neoga, for “Handcrafted Intarsia Lion.” Roxy Shelton, Strasburg, received the Community Written Award for “Reality Closing to Open Another.”

The following is the full list of artists who participated in the Lake Land College Spring 2026 Art Show:

Artist Name	Hometown	Artwork Title(s)
Anonymous	Ramsey	“Be Authentically You”
Mark E Beason	Mattoon	“JOKES ON YOU” “Winter Moon Rise” “Everything is Within” “Cemetery Scare”
Alex Beever	Mattoon	“Measure Time For Me, If You Can” “His Golden Masterpiece” “Before and Here Again”
Alexis Bialeschki	Mattoon	“Head in the Clouds”
Mercury Bowen	Mattoon	“Miles ‘Tails’ Prower”
Savannah Butcher	Atwood	“The Change: How Your Environment Impacts Your Career”
Brooke Campbell	Mattoon	“Balance”
Nate Carlin	Mattoon	“Glitter, Grandeur and Growth: The Visual Language of Taylor Swift”
Piper Christian	Bloomington	“Microscope”
Rachel Coleman	Mattoon	“Directions of Identity”
Jonathon Cook	Charleston	“This Disgusting Feast of Filth: A Memoir”
Breeze Corda	Charleston	“When Darkness Meets Light”
Kelly Cothern	Mattoon	“Love With Nowhere to Go” “Love With Nowhere to Go: Timelapse” “Giyu Tomioka” “Ekko” “Friends”
Charlie Cougill	Charleston	“Party”
Samantha Davison	Sullivan	“Alive in the Bathtub”
Jakota J Ervin	Toledo	“Below the Skin” “Lire avec Miku” “Hatsune Miku” “Campbell’s Chicken Noodle Soup”
Bri F. With Blueprint Play	Trilla	“Quiet Meadows”
Ozzy Gough	Ashmore	“God’s Creation”
Andi Harrison	Martinsville	“Earth and Space” “Light and Dark” “Burning Pines” “Big Top Mosaic” “Iridescent Roses”
Mary Hartke	Montrose	“Peacock Feathers”
Kyra S Hazelton	Effingham	“Where Man Ends” “Well, Shoot” “Siske” “Empire’s Wrath”
Alister Hill	Hammond	“Cherry bliss bracelet” “Autumn falls bracelet” “Orange bliss bracelet”
Corbin Howard	Windsor	“Am I Authentic?”
Kim Hunter	Charleston	“Fences”
Sophia Jansen	Sigel	“Quilted”
Alexis Johns	Shelbyville	“Authentic You”
Ed Jordan	Tower Hill	“Red, White and Blue” “Chorus Of Steele” “Whispers In the Wood” “Spaghetti Incident #21” “If Only I Could Speak”
Joy Kaurin	Charleston	“Moab”
Bells Faye Kegerreis	Mattoon	“The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – The Last Stand” “Dean Winchester – Someone Like You”
Evan Knierim	Effingham	“This Story is Not About a Sock” “The Harthman Case” “Gob the Goblin’s Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day”
Amber Lilley	Effingham	“NOTHING ON MY MIND”
Baylee Lowe	Marshall	“Laker Pride”
Jennifer Macke	Paris	“The Chapel of the Holy Cross”
Megan Martin	Mattoon	“Poems for People in a Hurry” “Incredible Edible Weeds Zine”
Wesley McCoy	Neoga	“Handcrafted Intarsia Lion” “Mountain Lion – Intarsia” “Intarsia Pony” “Cougar – Intarsia” “Intarsia Fox”
Oscar Mendoza	Effingham	“Ghost Rider”
Lily Merritt	Findlay	“Petals and Feathers”
Breanna Moore	Mattoon	“The Prince and the Blood-Red Beast”
Danielle Probst	Teutopolis	“Beyond Appearance”
Tyler Powell	Paris	“Along the Event Horizon”
Addyson Schaal	St. Peter	“Me and My Ram”
Jameson Schnitzler	Manteno	“Thut Greenhouse”
Roxy Shelton	Strasburg	“Reality Closing to Open Another”
Chris Strohl	Neoga	“Clara’s Heart” “Duke Likes Golf”
Taylor Torres	Effingham	“Loss of Mind” “Hydrangeas”
Kailyn Tracy	Mattoon	“The Lonely Life of Sir Orion the Great” “The Girl of Light and the Boy of Shadow” “A Pixie’s Plight”
Emily Uptmor	St. Elmo	“Our Masks”
Grace Walker	Effingham	“Through Our Years”
Elliot Winkleback	Charleston	“Dance the Night Away” “I Am Not an Artist”

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Lake Land College District 517, located in Mattoon, Illinois, serves the second largest community college district in the state, with a total population of 189,869. The Lake Land College district comprises all or part of 15 counties and 31 public school districts in rural east central Illinois. Counties served by Lake Land College include: Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar, Effingham, Fayette, Jasper, Macon, Montgomery, Moultrie and Shelby.