Mountain Brook girl wins 6th Congressional District art competition
A Mountain Brook girl who attends Indian Springs School was honored this week as the winner of Congressional District 6’s annual art competition.
Emery Walton, a ninth-grader, won the competition with a photograph of a young person peeking around the corner of a picture frame. The photograph was entitled “Hide and Seek.”
Walton was chosen from 84 entries from 24 high schools throughout Congressman Gary Palmer’s district, which includes parts of Jefferson, Shelby, Bibb, Blount, Chilton and Coosa counties.
The entries were displayed at the Riverchase Galleria for a week, and now Walton’s piece will be displayed in the U.S. Capitol with winners from other Congressional districts for a year.
Walton and the other student artists from the Sixth Congressional District were recognized at a reception at the Hoover Public Library Tuesday night, and now Walton also will be invited to attend an award ceremony in Washington, D.C., on June 23.
“There’s incredible creativity in the sixth district, and really throughout the state of Alabama,” Palmer said in a news release. “Every year this competition displays a great deal of talent, something our district and indeed the state can be proud of.”
Judges for the Sixth Congressional District competition were artists Amy Crews, Melanie Morris and David Nichols.
Second place went to Sydney Harrington, a 12th-grader at Oak Mountain High School for a drawing titled “Human Puppets.” Third place went to Emma Hankins, an 11th-grader at Evangel Classical Christian School in Alabaster for a painting titled “Composition in Light.”
Honorable mentions went to Indian Springs School 12th-grader Josh Scarborough, Clay-Chalkville High School 11th-grader Hannah Goodwin, Vestavia Hills High School 11th-grader Katie Larson, Homewood High School 12th-grader Katherine Popple, Coosa Valley Academy 12th-grader Madisyn Green and Coosa Valley Academy ninth-grader Rivers Cook.