The Pacific NorthWest Art School recently handed out four art scholarships totaling $1,845.

Each year the school, now in its 29th year of offering visual arts education taught by nationally and internationally known faculty, is able to award art students with the means to take one of the school’s 80 workshops.

This year winners include the following:

• Local resident and artist Elizabeth Agin is the recipient of the Betty Jane Miller Scholarship. This is a watercolor scholarship in the amount of $500. Agin splits her time between creating art in many mediums to being one of the staff members at the bayleaf in Coupeville.
• Susan Hewitt, a local artist of many mediums and owner/manager of Baywatch Barbershop, was awarded the Joan Brosnahan Painting and Mixed Media Scholarship in the sum of $200.
• Dawn Baker, a painter from Texas who has traveled here previously for classes and is honing her painting skills, was awarded the Dick and Margaret Elam painting scholarship.
• Photographers Susan Tannebaum of New York and Amanda Bay of Colorado are co-winners of the new Photography Scholarship and will each receive a $500 scholarship.

Each year the Pacific NorthWest Art School hosts more than 500 students, most coming from off island. These students travel, dine, lodge, recreate and put almost $250,000 into the local economy annually. These students come for the high caliber of art instruction the school offers and also for the beauty of Central Whidbey.

To find out more about the Pacific NorthWest Art School, visit the facility at 15 NW Birch St. in Coupeville or visit www.pacificnorthwestartschool.com