Collingsworth Public Library features Ouellette’s V.A.S.E. Gold Seal winner

By Bev Odom on Wednesday, February 4, 2026
  • Collingsworth Public Library’s display case highlights Wellington High School junior Elli Ouellette’s award winning 2025 Gold Seal Visual Arts Scholastic Event (V.A.S.E.) piece. Entitled Stinging Torments, her artwork is etched with words—clumsy, hopeless, awkward—and riddled with wasps—on her own face.
    Collingsworth Public Library’s display case highlights Wellington High School junior Elli Ouellette’s award winning 2025 Gold Seal Visual Arts Scholastic Event (V.A.S.E.) piece. Entitled Stinging Torments, her artwork is etched with words—clumsy, hopeless, awkward—and riddled with wasps—on her own face.
    WELLINGTON – Reflecting words that people have spoken to her and how these words sting and leave a lasting impression on a person's life, Elli Ouellette also has a great fear of wasps.  An Art 1 student in Wellington High School (WHS) art instructor Marnie Kane’s class her sophomore year, Ouellette’s 2025 piece won the Gold Seal in the Visual ...

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