First-Place District Winners: 1-Arielle Williams’ The Blue Possum, 2-Kayla Richardson’s Cultural Fusion and 3-Phillip Hahn’s Gator

With about 89 entries from the East Baton Rouge Parish School System (EBRPSS), three public school students walked away first-place winners, four second-place winners, three third-place winners and seven honorable mention winners in the 2011 Louisiana School Boards Association’s (LSBA) District Level Art Contest held this month.

Now the winners go on to the state competition representing the East Baton Rouge School Board at the LSBA Convention at the Crowne Plaza in Baton Rouge March 2-4.  Artwork will be displayed at the convention, including the first-, second- and third-place state winners at each of the three grade levels.

Some students entered the district contest, which had three grade levels, more than once.  Each piece of artwork had to represent Louisiana (scenes, products, buildings, people, etc.) and be created with regulation mediums (oil, acrylic, watercolor, pen and ink, charcoal, pastel, crayon, colored pencil, batik or stitchery).

EBRPSS winners included:

First Place
Arielle Williams, third grade, Parkview Elementary – The Blue Possum
Kayla Richardson, eighth grade, Westdale Middle – Cultural Fusion
Phillip Hahn, 12th grade, McKinley High – Gator

Second Place
Jayla McCrea, first grade, Greenbrier Elementary – Brown Pelican
Cindy Zhuang, sixth grade, Woodlawn Middle – Bayou Sunset
Maura Dupre, seventh grade, McKinley Middle – Louisiana Gumbo
Truc-Anh Phan, 11th grade, Tara High – Louisiana Tree of Life:  The Live Oak

Third Place
Jonathan Ding, first grade, Buchanan Elementary – Bullfrog
Prasiddha Karki, eighth grade, Glasgow Middle – Swamp Friendship
Nicholas Lopez, 11th grade, Woodlawn High – Voodoo Queen

For more information, contact Eddah Spears at the LSBA, (225) 769-3191 or espears@lsba.com, or EBRPSS Director of Fine Arts Wayne Talbot at (225) 929-8769 or wtalbot@ebrschools.org.