Lakes Area Arts League announces winners The Art of Flight: Nature and Man-Made Flying Machines Photography Competition

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 29, 2009
Contact: Andi Foster, LAAL Publicity
foster_andi2@hotmail.com - 936.590.0298

Center, Texas - The Lakes Area Arts League announces the winners in The Art of Flight: Nature and Man-Made Flying Machines photography competition. The competition invited student, amateur and professional photographers to submit images associated with the overall “flight” theme in Nature and Man-Made Flying Machines categories. The photographs were displayed at the Center Municipal Airport during the 6th Annual Center Fly-In event on Saturday, May 23, 2009 sponsored by the City of Center and Shelby County Chamber of Commerce.

The Lakes Area Arts League congratulates all Art of Flight 2009 winners and extends gratitude to the City of Center and to the Shelby County Chamber of Commerce for allowing the airport lobby to be used as gallery space for the photography exhibition.

Krista Elliott received the Overall Competition Best of Show Award for her entry “Heroes in the Sky,” which also earned her the Overall Best of Show and People’s Choice Awards in the Man-Made Flying Machines category. Elliott’s “Keeper of Secrets” entry received both the Director’s Choice and People’s Choice Awards in the Nature category.

Kate Davis captured the Overall Best of Show in the Nature category for “Beach Flight.”

Jean Wood received the Pilot’s Choice Award in the Man-Made Flying Machines category for “First Flight.”

Individual category award winners include:
Man-Made Flying Machines Category
Adult Division
1st Kate Davis – “Jet-Tac-Toe”
2nd Krista Elliott – “Heroes in the Sky”
3rd Tresa Konderla – “Hot Air Balloon”

13-17 Division
1st Amy Camp – “Waiting for Sunrise”

12 & Under
No entries

Nature Category
Adult Division
1st – Krista Elliott – “Keeper of Secrets”
2nd – Andrea Schroeder – “Just Buzzed By”
3rd – Kate Davis – “Beach Flight”

13-17 Division
No entries

12 & Under
1st Katherine Patrick – “Monarch”
2nd Jessica Johnson – “Garden Bug”
3rd Katherine Patrick – “Resting”

Photos can be picked up at the LAAL Art Center on Saturday, June 6, 2009 between 10:00 a.m. and Noon. Photos not retrieved by June 19, 2009 become property of the LAAL.

Plans are underway for The Art of Flight Photography Competition 2010. For details or to add your name to the competition mailing list, please contact Karen Thompson 936.590.0070, Carolyn Lamb 936.598.2421 or email laal@ndemand.com.

The Lakes Area Arts League is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established to promote interest and knowledge of all areas of the visual and performing fine arts through education and appreciation while enhancing the culture and tourism of the community and surrounding areas.

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