One Nation, Under God
One Nation, Under God
Artist receive cash prizes, paintings for sale at Art Spot
Malta's Patty's Floral sponsored an art contest through Phillips County Schools in which students were asked to create pictures of iconic county locations. Above is the first place winner Dominick Judd's -- Malta High School -- ink drawing of the Villa Theatre.
Second place winner Eva Harms, Malta High School, illustration of the footbridge at Trafton park.
Dodson Middle School's Sophia Hebert won third place with her watercolor of the H.G. Robinson House.
Melanie Fetter, also from Dodson Middle School, took fourth place in the contest with her water color of the old Zortman Jail.
Anna LaBrie instructor, Dominick Judd, whose picture of the Villa Theatre took first place, Eva Harms, who took second place with her rendering of the footbridge at Trafton Park and Mardy Demarais from Patty's Floral at Malta High School.
Art Spot's Kathy Bagley, third place finisher Sophia Hebert, Malta art teacher Melissa Henry, fourth place finisher Melanie Fetter and Demarais at the Art Spot in Malta.
Patty Simons, owner of Patty’s Floral and Greenhouse, saw what a group of people were doing in Big Sandy, Mont., and decided it would be a good fit for Phillips County. The idea was to have students at local schools paint or draw pictures of iconic locations throughout the county, pick some winners and award some prizes.
Simons got together with Kathy Bagley at Malta’s Art Spot to hammer out the details and a short time later, when the contest had run its course, nearly 50 entries were submitted and last week the winners were announced.
Malta High School’s Dominick Judd earned first place for his pen and ink drawing of the Villa Theatre (on page 1A of this week’s paper) and earned $50 for his winning entry. Eva Harms, also of MHS, earned $40 for her second place drawing of the footbridge at Trafton Park, Sophia Hebert from Dodson Junior High earned $30 for her third place watercolor painting of the H.G. Robinson house and Melanie Fetter earned fourth place for her watercolor painting of the old Zortman Jail.
Receiving honorable mention were Francis Werk and Tanner Smith, both of M.H.S.
“I thought they were all fantastic,” said Mardy Demarais who works at Patty’s and helped Bagley judge the entries. “The kids had limited time to complete their work so for the first year of the contest, we were very pleased with all the entries.”
The top four finishers will now have the honor of having their artwork framed and for sale – the artwork can currently be viewed and the original purchased at the Art Spot – as well as having their artwork scanned and all placed on the front of 4x8 notecards which are also for sale at Patty’s. If the original pieces of art are sold, Art Spot and the artists will each get a portion of the money raised from the notecards at Patty’s and will help defer the costs of the prize money and framing and printing costs.
Demarais said this is the first time the contest has been held, but most likely not the last.
“We are planning on holding it again,” she said. “We will try to vary it every year, maybe different years, but these turned out really nice.”
To see the art on display, head over to the Art Spot and to purchase notecards, visit Patty’s Floral which is open from 11:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday (and during the holiday season the store is open on some weekends) or contacted at 654-1951.
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