Junior State Duck Stamp Winners Announced
Two HHS Juniors Place High
Launch the media gallery 1 playerDuck Stamp Winners Announced
2010 Nebraska Junior Duck Stamp art winners have been announced, and two local artists finished in second and third place regionally. Junior Duck Stamp designs are judged in the K-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12 grade groups. Three first-place, second-place and third-place winners are chosen along with sixteen honorable mention winners. The Best of Show is then chosen from the first place winners from all age groups.
Third place winner for the 10-12 grade group, from the local region is junior Kayla Wootton and second place to Jesse Ashing, also a junior from Hemingford High School. Both are art students of Marla Wade.
Launch the media gallery 2 playerTheir work along with other Box Butte County high school students, will be displayed at the Carnegie Arts Center at 4th and Laramie in Alliance, at the Dimensions Show, April 27-May 16.
Best of Show this year was won by Emily Tolliver of McCook. This year’s entry depicts a pair of Canada Geese. Emily is a 16 year-old student at McCook High School. Her art teacher is Steve Clapp. Emily’s entry was selected from more than 900 entries received from all across the state. Her acrylic painting will be entered in the National Junior Duck Stamp Competition on April 23, 2010 at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul, MN.
The winner of the national competition will receive $5,000, a trip to our nation’s capitol along with a parent and the art teacher, and have his or her artwork used to make the 2010-2011 Junior Duck Stamp. Proceeds from the sale of the Junior Duck Stamps, which cost $5.00, support conservation education.
Judges for this year’s competition were Randy Kleager – local conservationist; Bob Grier – writer/photographer with Nebraska Game and Parks Commission; Mary Hunt – artist of Gering; Cindy Souder – US Fish & Wildlife Service, Denver and Roger Holsinger, Assistant Editor, Scottsbluff Star-Herald, Scottsbluff, NE.
Awards for the Nebraska Federal Junior Duck Stamp Program are underwritten by Cabela’s Inc., which provided gift certificates to the top 36 place winners, and the US Fish & Wildlife service.
The traveling exhibit is underwritten by Frame Masters of Scottsbluff, NE. The Crescent Lake/North Platte National Wildlife Refuge Complex hosted this year’s contest which was judged on March 24 at the Gering Civic Center. Information for next year’s contest will be posted on the US Fish & Wildlife Service internet homepage at