Children’s T-shirt Art Winner
We are proud to announce that Liul Koroiyale, a second grader at Longfellow Elementary, is the winner of the 2013 Sweet Pea Children’s T-Shirt Art Contest. His winning design features sweet pea flowers rising from a top hat surrounded by stars. While the flowers inspired him to create the design, he said that he added the hat to make it more magical. Liul enjoys art and drawing, especially drawing cars. When not creating winning t-shirt designs (which his mother notes will make great Christmas presents), Liul likes playing outside with his brothers, riding his bike, and sledding in the winter. Liul arrived to Bozeman from Ethiopia last August, experienced his first snow this past winter (which he thought was pretty cool), and is excited for his first Sweet Pea Festival this year. He’s not sure what he’s going to do with his $100 winnings, but, grinning happily, he said “it feels good”.
Adult T-shirt Art Winner
We are also excited to report that Brandee Brock is the 2013 Sweet Pea Adult T-Shirt Art Contest winner. Brandee’s winning design is a single color, circular print surrounded by sweet pea flowers and contains geometric outlining around various fonts. Brandee, a Graphic Design major at MSU, has a screen printing background and understands the challenges of printing t-shirts. Her goal was to create a label or badge for Sweet Pea that was simplistic, clean, and evoked a vintage feeling. Therefore, she wanted to keep her design uni-color for maximum versatility and create something that would translate well to fabric. Born and raised in Bozeman, Brandee currently lives in Alabama where her fiancé is attending Blackhawk helicopter training. She plans to return to Montana later this summer – hopefully in time to attend the Sweet Pea Festival and see her design on all the shirts! Her favorite parts of the Festival are the atmosphere and getting to see everyone, which makes a lot of sense since Sweet Pea has been a huge part of her family and upbringing. In fact, she’s only missed two or three Festivals since she was born. Her grandmother was an original art vendor; her grandfather has the entire collection of Festival buttons; her mother grows sweet peas every year, and her father has entered several winning parade floats. We’re so glad that Brandee’s winning design will become a part of Sweet Pea history, too!
