Adult Winner
Congratulations to Anya Cornforth, our 2014 Adult T-shirt Contest winner! Anya is a senior at Bozeman High School and has been creating art since she was very young, favoring the medium of mechanical pencil. She tells me, “I love to look at an image and draw it and just put my own twist to it. I love to do as much detail as possible so I never actually draw the entire image – just a zoomed in portion.”
This perspective is exactly what she applied when creating this year’s winning design. Her hand-drawn design incorporates sweet pea flowers, with dots added to provide texture, all enclosed within a circle which Anya describes as “the frosting” that ties everything together to create a great finished product.
When not creating award-winning art, Anya loves to be social, spend time with friends, hike, read, listen to country music, swing dance, and go paintballing. After finishing school, Anya plans to pursue phlebotomy as her career.
Anya is a long time festival-goer who is excited for everything this year! She says she loves it all – from the events, to the environment, to the people. Look for Anya’s design on all our adult merchandise this year at our pre-sale outlets and at the Festival.
Children’s Winner
Congratulations also go to Grace Stoddart, a 3rd-grader at Morning Star Elementary, for winning the Children’s T-shirt Art contest! Grace was inspired to create her design by the Sweet Pea Festival posters which hang in her home. She wanted to draw a flower but says she couldn’t decide on a single color so she used lots of them instead.
Despite having a great eye for design, Grace’s passion lies in gymnastics. She’s on the competitive team at Lone Mountain and says her favorite parts of gymnastics are the uneven bars and doing flips. Grace also has a talent for music and has played the piano for six years. She enjoys music class in school, but adds, smiling, that her favorite subject is recess.
Grace is looking forward to the Sweet Pea Festival this year, especially the frozen chocolate bananas. She’s attended every year and loves to dance to the music acts. Grace is also looking forward to building crafts at the kids’ zone. Last year, she and her brother built a house for their cat, which sadly doesn’t attract its intended tenant as well as they had hoped it would.
Be sure to check out Grace’s design on all of our children’s merchandise and totebags at our pre-sale outlets and the Festival!