It's Art Fair Time

It's that time again - the Art Fair. The schools have their own Art Fair and then the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners in each category in each grade get taken to the County Art Fair. Here's my first set of pictures....

Christian took a picture while we were at the lake on Spring Break and entered it into the school fair. He won 2nd place (sorry about the glare)

The bottom two pictures are Rebecca's. The flower picture won 1st place. The tree piture didn't win anything. We were surprised but the good parent answer was that they wanted other kids to win, too! :-)

So this Saturday, you could go to The Center in Springfield and see the County Art Fair - you could see all the winning art from the schools and then who won on the county level. We got there and found the 5th grade photography and Christian didn't win anything there.

Then we found the 4th grade drawing division and saw Rebecca's flower picture and it hadn't won anything. Each year, as we drive to the County Art Fair, we explain to Rebecca to remember that art is subjective and that the winners can be based on who the judges were, what they were looking for and even their moods at the time of judging. She seemed fine that her picture didn't place and we were pleased with that. We were confused because we coldn't find the first place in that category. The 2nd and 3rd place winners were there with their ribbons on the pictures (a friend of hers in her art class won 2nd and we were excited about that).

So I decided to walk to the front and ask about the category (it seemed they combined all the mediums in drawings rather than separated which they'd done before) and ask where the first place in the division was. As I walked to the table, something caught my eye up front on an easel and you wouldn't believe what I saw..... there was Rebecca's tree picture....the one that didn't win at the school (and as far as we knew wouldn't even be entered into the county fair).......I've got to show you the picture now...

First place..... she got first place in the 4th grade drawing division......BUT, there was something else. There on the corner was an Honorable Mention ribbon. Well, after talking to the lady, we figured it out. This year, they gave a "Best of Show" - the judges favorite of everything. And they gave an Honorable Mention, meaning their 2nd favorite overall art piece. Well, you guessed it. It went to Rebecca for her tree picture!!! Does she ROCK or what? We are SO PROUD of her.


Our little artist

Julianna had to have her picture taken too and so we took it in front of this. This won Best of Show in the Middle School Sculpture division. It was very cool and Julianna loved it, too!