Kindergartner wins national award

Evelyn Goldman, a kindergartener at Crestline Elementary, was selected as the national winner for the kindergarten-third grade category of the online art contest for Artsonia. Evelyn’s folk art style cow drawing climbed to the top of votes in part due to Crestline’s effort to get students and their families to vote.

“Not even knowing who ‘Evelyn 915’ (as she was known in the online vote) was in many cases, they knew a Crestline student was up for the title, and they logged in to vote,” said Chrissie Goldman, Evelyn’s mother.

Evelyn has enjoyed painting with watercolors with her grandfather, Corky Goldman, since she was three years old. It is a special activity that the two of them share, and he has instilled in her some of the true techniques of watercolor, like how to blend colors and how to prep the paper. Evelyn has also always done art projects with her great-grandmother, Christine Danner, a retired art teacher. She taught Evelyn how to make an art journal, and they draw in it almost every time they are together.