When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in the Salon of Paris in 1865, it is met with jeers, laughter, criticism, and disdain. It is attacked by the public, the critics, the newspapers.

Best of Show award-winning works advance to the State High School Art Show in Olympia in April. Winners from the Methow Valley were: Lily Arntsen (ILC) for “A Blood-Stained Dress” (acrylic painting); ...