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”
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| 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.
