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By RONNIE BLAIR rblair@tampatrib.com

The Tampa Tribune

Published: February 21, 2009

DADE CITY - Pasco County has no shortage of artistic children and teenagers.

A trip to the Pasco County Fair confirms it.

About 1,000 young people submitted entries for the junior art exhibit at this year's fair.

"That's impressive, isn't it?" said Linda Whitman, chairwoman of the event.

Some of their artwork is submitted by art teachers at elementary, middle and high schools.

In other cases, individuals submit the work themselves. The artists had to have created their works in the past two years, and it could not be something that was shown at a previous Pasco County Fair.

The exhibits for high school and middle school students are in Clayton Hall, and the work of the elementary students is on display in the Women's Building, Whitman said.

That's important to keep in mind, she said, because in the past some elementary students and their parents never made it to the Women's Building and left the fair unable to find the children's work.

Visitors are finding that all types of artwork were entered in the junior art exhibit, Whitman said.

The exhibit includes paintings, drawings, photographs, ceramics and papier-mâche creations.

"There's one piece that was welded," Whitman said.

The fair ends Sunday.

Reporter Ronnie Blair can be reached at (813) 948-4218.

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