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GFB names winners of art & bookmark contests
Posted on Jul 12, 2023 at 0:00 AM
By Lauren Goble, Georgia Farm Bureau
Agriculture makes a great subject for art, which the winners of the 2023 Georgia Farm Bureau Middle School and High School Ag in the Classroom Art Contests prove.
Roseanna E. Bennett of Pierce County sketched the first-place winning drawing of a beef cow with her newborn calf and pine trees and row crops in the high school art contest. Olivia Durden of Dodge County was named the state runner-up for her drawing of a girl holding a chicken.
Bennett won $250 as the state high school art contest winner and $100 as the GFB 10th District winner. Durden won $150 for being the runner-up and $100 for being the GFB 6th District winner.
Payton Furman of Cook County won state honors in the middle school bookmark contest for colorfully depicting the variety of Georgia agriculture. Furman received $150 for winning the state middle school bookmark contest and $100 as the GFB 10th District winner.
Visit https://gfb.ag/23hsartcontestwinners to see all of the district winners’ artwork for the 2023 GFB High School Art Contest. Visit https://gfb.ag/23bookmarkwinners to see all of the district winners’ creations in the 2023 GFB Middle School Bookmark Contest.
This marks the 29th year GFB has held its annual art contest for ninth through twelfth-grade students. This is the second year GFB coordinated a contest for sixth through eighth graders to design a bookmark, replacing the essay contest.
“Georgia Farm Bureau’s Ag in the Classroom Art Contests encourage students to explore agriculture and then create a piece of art inspired by what they learned,” said GFB President Tom McCall. “Students who might not otherwise think about agriculture learn about the variety of crops and livestock Georgia farmers raise as they create their drawings.”
GFB received entries for its high school art contest from 62 county Farm Bureaus and entries from 75 county Farm Bureaus for its middle school art contest. GFB district winners for each contest were picked from all county entries submitted from each district. GFB posted the district winners’ artwork for each contest on its Facebook page to allow Georgia’s ag community to select the state winners of each contest.
Contestants in the high school contest were instructed to create a black, white and gray drawing using graphite, charcoal, pastel, chalk, colored pencil, ballpoint pen or mixed media appropriate for printing. Drawings were judged on how well the artwork represents agriculture in the student’s county or Georgia and for artistic merit.
The middle school contestants were given a blank bookmark and asked to create a design illustrating Georgia agriculture.
GFB Bookmark Contest state winning entry by Payton Furman of Cook County.
GFB Art Contest winning entry by Roseanna E. Bennett of Pierce County
Other district winners in the GFB High School Art Contest were:
GFB 1st Dist. Lincoln Miller Gordon Co.
GFB 2nd Dist. Darby Earl Habersham Co.
GFB 3rd Dist. Valeria Francia North Fulton Co.
GFB 4th Dist. Amanda Li Wilkes Co.
GFB 5th Dist. Emily Adams Monroe Co.
GFB 6th Dist. Olivia Durden Dodge Co.
GFB 7th Dist. Layla Abbgy Long Co.
GFB 8th Dist. Kyliee Brown Wilcox Co.
GFB 9th Dist. Alex Hatcher Decatur Co.
Other district winners in the GFB Middle School Bookmark Contest were:
GFB 1st Dist. Violet Paul Cherokee Co.
GFB 2nd Dist. Brylie Justice Rabun Co.
GFB 3rd Dist. Gomez Praneo Douglas Co.
GFB 4th Dist. Sarah Kate Gardner Barrow Co.
GFB 5th Dist. Anna Leigh Coker Upson Co.
GFB 6th Dist. Addison Bowles Laurens Co.
GFB 7th Dist. Ever Downs Tattnall Co.
GFB 8th Dist. Maryanna Chitty Clay Co.
GFB 9th Dist. Phoenix Adams Decatur Co.
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