Rep. Johnson: 'Arts alive and well in the Fourth District'

Congressman Johnson applauds students’ efforts, awards college scholarships:

LITHONIA, GA –Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) announced the winners of his 2010 Congressional Arts Competition and awarded four college scholarships worth more than $23,000 on May 8 at the Lou Walker Senior Center.

Tucker High School student Sally Beck won the competition with “Post Earthquake: A Day in Haiti.” She won a $1,500 a year scholarship from Savannah College of Art and Design, and she will travel to Washington, D.C., next month to see her art displayed in the Capitol tunnel, where it will hang with other award winners for a year.

“The arts are alive and well in the Fourth District,” said Rep. Johnson. “I applaud all the students who participated in this year’s competition. They are all winners.”

Seventeen high school students from DeKalb, Rockdale and Gwinnett counties submitted artwork competing for four college scholarships.

Logan Shirah of Lakeside High School was first runner up and won a $10,000 scholarship to the Art Institute of Atlanta; Nina Wilks of McNair High School was second runner up with a $5,000 scholarship to the Art Institute; and Michelle Lee of Meadowcreek High School in Gwinnett was third runner up and received a $2,500 scholarship to the Art Institute.

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