Arts awards have been presented to both teachers and their students.
The Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana presented its annual awards Thursday night at the DoubleTree hotel in Downtown Evansville.
The prestigious Mayor’s Arts Award went to recently retired art teacher Katie Waters.
She worked at the University of Southern Indiana for 38 years.
Meantime, retired art teacher Jon Siau was honored with the Arts Council award. Siau taught more than 3,500 students in his career at North High School.
Both Waters and Siau taught the winner of this year’s Visual Arts Award, Jonathan Hittner. He attended both North and USI.
Signature School art teacher Kyle Darnell took home the Arts Educator Award and his student, Olive Bousman, won the Young Artist Award.
The Performing Arts Award went to Kevin Roach and the Arts Community Award was presented to PG / Pioneer Group.
