This year marks the twenty-seventh anniversary of the Congressional Arts Competition, An Artistic Discovery. The 2009 Congressional Arts Competition is open to all high school students nationwide and the winner from each district will have his/her artwork displayed for one year in our nation’s Capitol building. This year WVIA is coordinating the competition for the 10th and 11th districts.
2008 Winners: |
Nicholas Ranella | Dunmore
District #11
(Congressman Paul Kanjorski) |
Derek Kopen | Shavertown
District #10
(Congressman Chris Carney) |
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Through the generous support of Times-Shamrock, the First Place student from each district and his/her immediate family will travel to Washington, DC for the Artistic Discovery Exhibition Opening, to be held on Thursday, June 4, 2009.
Times-Shamrock is the owner/publisher of the Scranton Times, Sunday Tribune, Wilkes-Barre Citizen’s Voice, and the News Item, Shamokin, as well as several other newspapers and radio stations throughout the congressional districts.
Students may retrieve their artwork immediately following the reception April 16, 2009 or at the WVIA studios between April 20, 2009 and April 22, 2009 between the hours of 9 and 5.
Students must live within the 10th or 11th Congressional Districts in order to be eligible. To find out if you do, use the links to the left.
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