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GFB announces 2025 art and bookmark contest winners
Posted on May 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Georgia students tapped into their artistic talents to create colorful bookmarks and draw scenes depicting agriculture for the 2025 Georgia Farm Bureau Middle School Bookmark and High School Art Contests.
Kelly Baker, of Gwinnett County, won the GFB High School Art Contest with her drawing of a mom and her daughter feeding their chickens as dairy cattle stand in a pasture. Baker won $250 as the state high school art contest winner and $100 as the GFB 3rd District winner. She was a junior at SKA Academy at the time she entered the contest this winter.
Haley Bolin, of Forsyth County, won state honors in the middle school bookmark contest for her vibrant bookmark highlighting Georgia peaches, blueberries, cotton, peanuts, pecans and Vidalia onions. She received $150 for winning the state bookmark contest and $100 as the GFB District winner. She was an eighth-grade student at South Forsyth Middle School when she entered the contest.
Visit https://gfb.ag/25artwinners to see all the district winners’ artwork for the 2025 GFB High School Art Contest. Visit https://gfb.ag/25bookmarkwinners to see all of the district winners’ creations in the 2025 GFB Middle School Bookmark Contest.
This marks the 31st year GFB held its annual art contest for ninth through twelfth-grade students. This is the fourth year GFB coordinated a contest for sixth through eighth graders to design a bookmark.
“Georgia Farm Bureau’s Ag in the Classroom Art Contests encourage students to create a piece of art inspired by what they learn about Georgia agriculture after watching a video, doing research, or visiting a farm,” 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 75 county Farm Bureaus and entries from 81 county Farm Bureaus for its middle school bookmark contest. A panel of judges selected GFB district winners for each contest from all county entries submitted from each district. Once the district winners were selected, all GFB home office employees were invited to vote for their favorite piece of artwork in each contest without knowing the names of the artists nor counties that submitted the sketches and bookmarks.
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.
District winners in the GFB High School Art Contest were:
GFB 1st Dist. Eeshal Gupta Forsyth County
GFB 2nd Dist. Abrianna Gaiti Hall County
GFB 3rd Dist. Kelly Baker Gwinnett County
GFB 4th Dist. Leah Miller Morgan County
GFB 5th Dist. Megan Milliken Monroe County
GFB 6th Dist. Mara Delgado Dodge County
GFB 7th Dist. Addison Swart Long County
GFB 8th Dist. Janae King Lee County
GFB 9th Dist. Betsaida Hernandez Dougherty County
GFB 10th Dist. Bella Cabrera Glynn Co.
District winners in the GFB Middle School Bookmark Contest were:
GFB 1st Dist. Haley Bolin Forsyth County
GFB 2nd Dist. Tania Kuziaieva Jackson County
GFB 3rd Dist. Joy Yang Gwinnett County
GFB 4th Dist. Aeran Patel McDuffie County
GFB 5th Dist. Aubrey Berton Spalding County
GFB 6th Dist. Madelynn Valencia Bibb County
GFB 7th Dist. Melanie Burgos Bulloch County
GFB 8th Dist. Harper Knight Wilcox County
GFB 9th Dist. Emmy Rados Brooks County
GFB 10th Dist. Holly Gibbs Pierce County
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