This year’s Gloucester County Art Student Show will begin Friday and run through March 14 at the Gloucester Library, Main Street Center, with a reception and awards presentation from 4 to 5 p.m. on Thursday, March 14, for the young artists’ families, friends and the Gloucester community.

Sponsored by the Phoenix Art Group, the show will feature arts and crafts by artists aged 5-18 in Gloucester’s public, private and home-schooled systems.

There will be a “People’s Choice Award” of a ribbon, certificate and $25 sponsored by the Phoenix Art Group for the piece of art or craft that receives the most votes from the visiting public. Voting ends at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 13.

Local artist Renate Bumgarner will give a special award for the most “Promising Young Artist.”

Illustrations for next year’s Art Student Calendar will be selected from the entries in the contest. The calendars are sold to raise money for a schol...