Taylor Swift fans are under suspicion.
A student’s prize-winning, color-pencil drawing of the Grammy-winning country music star disappeared while on display at Fashion Square Mall in Saginaw Township Wednesday.
High School administrators believe it may have been the target of an art heist.
Freeland High School senior Justin Burns spent an estimated 30 hours on the project and won “best of show” of all of the submissions by his schoolmates, said Tamara S. Klida, 41, the school’s art teacher.
“It was a beautiful drawing using color pencils,” she said. “And it almost looked like a photograph if you step back a couple feet.”
Klida reported the theft to mall security.
“I don’t think it was random, because I don’t think anything else was stolen from the mall,” Klida said.
“I’m pretty it was someone who either loved Taylor Swift or really thought that drawing was something special, which it was. Amazing.”
The piece was on display as part of the 23rd Annual Saginaw County Art Exhibit, where it hung among hundreds of entries from schools throughout Saginaw County.
A reward poster now hangs in the empty slot where Taylor Swift’s likeness was displayed.
Burns’ art teacher is donating $50 of her own money, and Ruth Ann Knapp, 66, of Saginaw, a chairwoman for the event, said the piece may be returned to the mall security desk with “no questions asked.”
Anyone with information about the disappearance is asked to contact Tamara Klida at Freeland High School, 695-6586.
A similar theft occurred about 10 years ago at the art show, but “it is very rare,” Knapp said.
“He (Burns) really handled it rather well,” Klida said. “I think he was kind of shocked, but he didn’t freak out or anything. He was just really kind of surprised that someone would take it.”
Burns could not be reached for comment.
But Klida said Burns is a gifted artist who’s been offered scholarships to attend Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, though his college plans remain undetermined.
Burns, a National Honors Society member and soccer player, “didn’t even take his first art class until his junior year, last year, and it was pretty evident right away that he had phenomenal drawing abilities, whatever it was that he drew, and so he pursued it,” Klida said.
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Jag kan inte förstå hur någon kan stjäla denna underbara porträtt av Taylor! Bara sjukt... Så nu misstänker de att ett fan har stulit den, men det kan jag faktiskt inte tänka mig!
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