More than 1,000 students from Mobile and Baldwin county schools participated in an art contest held by the Marine Resources Division of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. The annual contest promotes an awareness and appreciation of Alabama’s coastal resources. The winning photographs are featured in Alabama’s 2007 “Conserving and Enjoying Alabama’s Coastal Resources” art calendar. The calendars will be available free to the public in January 2007 at various locations, including Alabama Marine Resources offices in Gulf Shores and Dauphin Island.
There were 1,053 students from 40 schools who submitted art works depicting recreational and commercial fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, boating, keeping our beaches clean, seafood (shrimp, crabs, oysters and fish of the Gulf of Mexico), marine life (sea turtles, dolphins, invertebrates and fish of the Gulf of Mexico), fishing piers and artificial reefs, and Alabama Marine Resources Enforcement. The entries were considered by a panel of judges consisting of three artists and two marine scientists. From these entries, 72 were selected to be featured in the 2007 art calendar.
The Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium graciously provided the funds to have all winning entries matted and framed for exhibition in four different museums. In January and February of 2007 they will be on display at the University of South Alabama Library Gallery. From there they will go the Mobile Arts Council for the month of April and then to the Mobile Museum of Art in May and June. Their final showing will be at the Eastern Shore Art Center in Fairhope during July. After that show the pictures will be returned to the students.
Alabama Marine Resources and the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium thank all those who participated and congratulate the winning entries featured in the 2007 calendar. The following students are the winners in this year’s contest.
ALLENTOWN ELEMENTARY
Kaitlyn Moody, Rachel Sullivan, Sierra Parmer
CHI ALPHA ACADEMY
Cody Dobbins
COVENANT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
Shelby Baldwin, Caitlin Riordan
E.R. DICKSON ELEMENTARY
Nichole Baptista
DIXON ELEMENTARY
DeAngelo Blake Johnson, Kellie Kathrine Stone
DODGE ELEMENTARY
Azeline Faye Borja Arcenal
FAIRHOPE INTERMEDIATE
Nicholas Thomson, Ansley Gwin, Jennifer Dykes, Francesca Isabelle Moseley, Cory Douglas Litton, John Wilkins, Pierce Elliot Banker, Colin Pitts, Jake Rezner, Hannah Elizabeth Watson, Mary Ruth Vogle, Matthew Preston Lawrence, Anne Warren Barre’, Laney Milham
FAITH ACADEMY
Bradley Taylor Bridges, Gavin Mitchell Williams
FOLEY INTERMEDIATE
William Drake Deisner
GILLIARD ELEMENTARY
Normandi Williams
GULF SHORES ELEMENTARY
Timothy Dakota Vest, Kaeylarae Isadora Glass
HOLLINGER’S ISLAND ELEMENTARY
B.J. Martinez, Sara Clark, Amanda Casey
HUTCHENS ELEMENTARY
Canon Waters, Kourtlyn Harvey, Emily Ritchie
INDIAN SPRINGS ELEMENTARY
Brianna Lewis
KATE-SHEPARD ELEMENTARY
Jakayla Whitfield, Hayley Johnson, Morgan Atkins, Auna Lewis
MARYVALE ELEMENTARY
Demone Beard
MCDAVID-JONES ELEMENTARY
Madelyn Howard
O’ROURKE ELEMENTARY
Hiba Hasan
ST. LUKE’S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
Lauren Duke, Sarah Till, Reed Miller, Laura Katherine Fisher, Jacob Abshire, Matthew Holland, J.P. Williamson
SWIFT SCHOOL
Nadia A. Johnson, Morgan Hayes
UMS-WRIUGHT PREPARATORY
Robert Milton Hope III, Payton Conner Massey, Jessica Ju
JOHN WILL ELEMENTARY
Julien Gratton, Markell Morrisette, Regi Mose
WILMER ELEMENTARY
Michael Jones
OTHER PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS
Orange Beach Elementary, St. Vincent de Paul Catholic School, Knollwood Christian School, Semmes Elementary, Saint Bendict School, St. Pius X School, Glendale Elementary, Loxley Elementary, Cottage Hill Baptist School, Calcedeaver Elementary, Dauphin Island Elementary, Bay Minette, Intermediate, Home Schools, Saraland Elementary, and Mary B. Austin Elementary.