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Handmade Leather Boots
by Anika Jaan
Adult Category

Crochet Ginko Bonsai Tree
by Sylvia Webster
Youth Category

Visual Art (adult category)
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Melissa Flores
First Place | Visual Arts Category

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Alvis Jackson
Judge's Choice |
​Visual Arts Category



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Treavor Gouge
Honorable Mention |
Visual Arts Category
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kayla kirkland

Photography

"Kwanson Cherry on Main St."
Annette Bryant
First Place | Photography


​"Winter"
​Byron Robinson
Second Place | Photography

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Visual Arts (highschool)
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madison metcalf

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kaylyn fairchild
​Madison Metcalf
First Place
​High School Visual Arts


Kaylyn Fairchild
Second Place
High School Visual Arts

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Jessica Swofford
Third Place
High School Visual Arts

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jessica swafford

Visual Arts (middle school)

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kiley palms

Kiley Palms
"Bonsai Tree in the Moonlight"

First Place
Middle School Visual Arts

Kaden Palms
"Puzzle Tree"
Second Place
Middle School Visual Arts

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kaden palms

Visual Arts (elementary school)
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noah barrier

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cayden carson
Noah Barrier
"Lego Trees"
First Place
Elementary School Visual Arts


Cayden Carson
"Winter Trees"
Second Place
Elementary School Visual Arts


Gracelynn Smith
Tree and Redbird

Third Place
Elementary School Visual Arts



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gracelynn smith

Poetry

First Place
From a Tree's Perspective
By Lily Combs

Winter 
Branches, bare
My leaves have left me 

​Snow falls, covering me in a blanket of sorts
The world is quiet
I feel like I could just... disappear
Spring
Snow has melted
Birds sing
Building their nests on my branches My leaves have grown back
Greener than ever

Summer
Hot

The sun beating down on my bark Dogs pant 

Animals hide themselves in the shade of my leaves 
I wish I could do the same 
Fall 
I'm starting to shed my leaves 
They turn colors of red, orange, and yellow 
Weather is turning colder 
Animals start to prepare for hibernation, stuffing their faces
Flowers are all gone 
Winter 
Winter again 
Animals have gone into hibernation Snow covers the ground once again Year's almost over 
Time to do it all over again 
Second Place
A Calm In The World 
By Samantha Wild 
The forest is an inspiring place and gives
peace to one's mind 

The sounds, the sights, the smells 
All natural, all peaceful, all calm 
Bare, branchy trees are as claws reaching out from the dark depths of an abyss Small, orange leaves on a little, thin tree surrounded by the brown Autumn foliage 
Shown like fireflies in the summer night 
Grey, flat, soft, clouds in the dreary sky
give the feeling of being trapped inside 

With nothing to do but watch on a rainy day I find the forest calming my busy mind from the responsibilities and expectations of life 

The forest has sounds of calm water, wind in the sky, and the crunch of leaves I see tangled branches that
​are as a kitten playing with a ball of yarn 

The air is chilled and soft as one's cold, last breath 

The calm water ripples over stones underneath like the ocean's waves rolling over shells on the 
shore And the wind rippling through sprouts of moss on the trees are as an anemone waving in the sea

Third Place
Silent Limbs
By Sophie Pittman 

From the serenity of the rosy-fingered
morning loomed a figure
Tall but gnarled, with twisted limbs
Once magnificent, now forgotten
That lay here, just slowly rotting
It looked to the sky as if to pray
With bare limbs outstretched
Bracing against the elements
​A fighter for all
Without saying a word

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abi smith

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treavor gouge
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cheryl swofford
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marianna handy
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bre clark

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laura audino
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lonon
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jennifer garcia
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nathan fender
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anna gattermann
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justin harris
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tinston w

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john gaylen liberatore
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tyler a. liberatore

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jacob
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isaac
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ezekiel
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cade

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karine
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A.C
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christina
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angela

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armani
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james
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lauren
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malachi

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anna
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victoria
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hunter
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ella
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koby

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ashlyn
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fatima
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zach

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McDowell Arts Council Association

The arts are for everyone. 

MCDOWELL ARTS COUNCIL ASSOCIATION
Street Address: 50 S MAIN ST MARION NC
Mailing Address: PO BOX 1387

Phone Number: 828-652-8610
Text Accessible Google Number: 828-559-1404 

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