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| Students honored in Culture of Giving
art contest |
The Daily Camera, Living
& Arts, December 12, 2004
By Abbey Smith, For the Camera
The holiday season is the time of giving. Students around
the region created images of giving through art in the
Community Foundation's Culture of Giving Art Contest.
The Culture of Giving Art Contest is a just one facet
of a broader campaign to strengthen philanthropy in Boulder
County while bringing the community together. Winning
art pieces are on display at the Dairy Center for the
Arts.
Gretchen Minekime, the Culture of Giving coordinator,
said the art contest is a great opportunity for young
people to get involved with their community. "It's
a chance for the youth to participate and have a voice,"
Minekime said.
For Zoey Frank, 17, the innocence of sharing strawberries
with her 2-year-old neighbor Aidan was her most joyous
experience of giving. Frank's first-place winning oil
painting shows Aidan, with shiny golden locks and curious
blue eyes, feeding a vibrant red strawberry to Frank.
The artist, a Boulder High School senior, says she wanted
to capture the pure joy of giving.
"I believe that all giving should originate out of
this basic instinct to share the beauty of the world with
others," Frank wrote, describing her piece.
Middle and high school students were asked to create their
own vision of giving in a medium of their choice. This
year's contest drew 169 entries. The young artists used
paint, pencil drawings, collages, photographs and graphic
design for both joyful and sad interpretations of giving.
Each piece was accompanied by a short explanation that
described the message. A group of five judges from the
art community selected the winners. The top three winners
were awarded monetary awards of $500, $300 and $200, and
half of each prize was given to a charity of the artist's
choice.
Molly Dorans, 14, decided to split her first place winnings
from the middle school division with the Boulder Arts
Academy, a music and art school aimed at providing arts
education for people of all ages. Her piece, titled "Through
the Eyes of a Child," is a soft pencil drawing of
a child with dreamy eyes and the Earth covering the top
part of the child's head, imagining what the world would
be like absent of war, crime and poverty.
Wanting the world to be a perfect place is not such a
bad idea, said Dorans, an eighth-grader at Peak to Peak
Charter School.
"Kids see the world as a perfect place," Dorans
said. "People should look at the world through the
innocence of a child."
Inspired by family members who work there, Frank decided
to share her winnings with Imagine!, a nonprofit organization
in Boulder County helping people with developmental disabilities.
An exhibit of the entries and winners is at the Dairy
Center for the Arts in Boulder until Jan. 2. The exhibit
is free and open to the public. For more information about
the Culture of Giving project, visit www.cultureofgiving.org.
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