Contributing Writer

U.S. Representative Mac Collins, R-3rd District,

recently sponsored the Third Congressional District Student Art Awards

and 19 schools responded by sending entries from more than

100 students. Fayette County was represented by the following

high schools: Counterpane, Fayette County, McIntosh, Sandy Creek

and Starr's Mill.

"This was a great afternoon and event," Collins said. "We

were all treated to incredible art work by very talented students.

Many thanks to the community groups that helped make such a

successful event."

Judges for the final event were Sally M. Faulkner,

founder/director of Southland Auctions, the first fine art auction house

in Atlanta, and who has worked on special art projects for

John Portman and the Atlanta Olympic Committee; and June

Corley, who has worked in advertising in Boston and Atlanta. She

received her BFA and Visual Art Design degrees at Auburn University.

The top winner Eric Hancock from Newnan High School

in Coweta County was awarded $100 and a two-day trip to

Washington, D.C., along with a parent and his art teacher. His work

will hang in the Congressional Building for one

year. Hancock's art teacher is Jodie Hobbs.

Second Place went to Fayette County High School

student Krystallin Thomas , who will receive $75 and have her

painting displayed in Congressman Collins' office in D.C. Her teacher

is Melanie Mickleboro.

The Fayette Society of Fine Arts Award for Best in Show

went to Leigh Margaret Pearson , Fayette County High; the Best

School Display Award went to Curt Crocker , also of Fayette

County High; and the Henry County Art Club Award went to

Jill Weathers of East Coweta High School.

Hosts for the event were Collins; the Fayette County

Public Library; Gloria Solly, president of the Fayette Society of Fine

Arts; Barbara Roark-Frazier, president of the Southern Crescent

Alliance of Visual Artists; and the Griffin Tech Foundation.

For Immediate Release Contact: Sari Greenberg

March 12, 1999 (202) 225-5901

Third Congressional District Art Competition in Full Swing

Awards Presentation Scheduled for March 20, 1999

U.S. Representative Mac Collins will make the awards

presentation for the 1999 Third Congressional District Art Competition for

high school students on Saturday, March 20 at the Fayette County Library in

Fayetteville, Georgia at 3:00 PM.

The presentation will be made at an awards reception hosted

Alliance of Visual Arts (SCAVA), and the Fayette County Library. The

public is invited to attend and honor these talented young people.

Each high school art teacher throughout the Third

Congressional District is allowed to submit five of their students' entries for consideration.

The entries will be displayed in the Museum from March 20-27.

The winning high school entry will be displayed in the

United States Capitol for one year. The winner and a guest will be given an

all-expense paid, two-day trip to Washington, D.C. for the presentation

ceremonies of all first place entries from across the United States on June 22.

This year, for the first time, the winner's art teacher will also be

awarded the trip to Washington, D.C.

For further information regarding the Third Congressional

District Art Competition contact Audrey Bray in the Jonesboro office

of U.S. Representative Mac Collins at (770)603-3395.

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