Four Area Schools Produce Winners of Banner Art Contest
Four area schools submitted their students’ artwork to compete in the Grand Boulevard of Americas Banner Competition sponsored by the Pan-American Association of Kansas City. Blue Ribbon winners were announced soon after the students’ banners were exhibited at the Arts Tech building, 1522 Holmes during a First Fridays at the Crossroads event.
Students were asked to create banners representing different countries from the Americas. Two winners were chosen for each country. The Blue Ribbon winners will have their banners displayed along Grand Avenue in Kansas City for the next 5 to 10 years.
The winners from each participating school and their banners are:
Center High School
CeCelia Ott – Barbados
Andreas Nelson – Brazil
Starlette Williams – Cuba
Barstow High School
Lynn Lin – Belize
Ruoling Xu – Canada
Lisa Maeda – Grenada
Notre Dame de Sion High School
Morgan Hickman – Brazil
Sammie Nesslein – Peru
Lutheran High School
Ryan Bias – Barbados
Heather Smith – Bolivia
Summer Bartalos – Costa Rica
Danielle Crowdis – Paraguay
Rebekah Hinrichs – St. Lucia
The winners will be honored at a reception held February 21 in the Corinthian Hall at the Kansas City Museum, 3218 Gladstone Blvd., where the banners will also be on exhibit.