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Sarasota News Leader January 24, 2014 — including free supplies and tuition for summer art classes — "to eight promising young artists selected by their high school art teachers," the release notes. Taylor T. Collins and Alix Morin, the 2014 Evening of Excellence co-chairs, then announced the winning students. A panel of five arts professionals used a blind-scoring process to select the Top 25 works out of 347 entries submitted by students from every Sarasota County public high school, the release explains. The panel of judges comprised artist and New College instructor Jean Blackburn; artist and interior designer Katie Cassidy; James Dean and Dr. Christopher Wilson from Ringling College of Art and Design; and April Irwin, digital design teacher at Sarasota County Technical Institute. Page 110 and Design, the scene of the announcements. During the four days of the art show, visitors were invited to vote for their favorite work to win the Marie B. Ritter People's Choice Award, the release continues. Sarasota High's Brittany Probus received the most votes and the $250 prize for her electronic media piece titled Transient, the release adds. The student artists are donating all 25 of their winning pieces — paintings, photographs, mixed media, sculpture and more — to the Education Foundation. Both the students and their art will be photographed by Gene Pollux of Pollux Photography and Digital Imaging. Then each piece will be professionally framed by local galleries, which will be donating materials and services, the release notes. All entries were on view Jan. 11-14 in a free Finally, the students will be honored at public exhibition at Ringling College of Art the Evening of Excellence gala dinner and Sarasota High senior Ashlee Baker with her Best of Show piece, a sculpture titled Dark Rain. Contributed photo Venice High senior Yuwen Liu with her Best of School mixed media piece, Who am I? Contributed photo