“Highest Design” Water Tower Art Contest Names Winning Artist
Awards Billingsville Elementary $5,000 in School Supplies
The Design Center of the Carolinas unveiled the winning work of art in its 3rdannual “Highest Design” Water Tower Art Contest, sponsored by Ram Realty Services, at a special Design Center event on May 2nd. With more than 17,000 votes cast for 36 works of art, Jeff Thomas and his original work “I Am/We Are” garnered nearly 5,000 votes to capture the prize.
Jeff was presented with a $1,000 check by Ivy Greaner, Chief Operating Officer, Ram Realty Services. Thomas said about his inspiration for the winning piece, “As artists, everything we create is part life experience and part environment, the product of countless decisions and choices, little and big. All of them influenced in one way or another by where we are and what surrounds us. Yet as we choose where we rest our heads, we become a part of our surroundings. A part of the influence. A part of the inspiration.”
Carolina Pad is generously donating $5,000 in school supplies to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School, Billingsville Elementary, that Jeff championed. Principal Arlene Harris was on hand to accept a certificate from Carolina Pad for the school supplies. The supplies will be delivered at the start of the 2012-2013 school year.
Local artists competed online for votes to win the chance for his or her work to be displayed on the highest canvas in the city, a 125’ water tower. “I Am/We Are” will be replicated onto a large horizontal vinyl canvas and installed on the Design Center water tower in place of the 2011 artwork, “Jane’s Dancing Addiction,” created by Ashley Plyer, last year’s winner.
“We are excited about the momentum the Highest Design Contest continues to build every year. The community support has been wonderful. We are honored to showcase Jeff’s work on the water tower as the winner of 2012. Jeff and his wife are recent transplants to South End and have embraced their new community with heart and soul,” said Ivy Greaner, Chief Operating Officer, Ram Realty Services.
South End Community Day and Block Party this Saturday, April 28th
Community Day Details
Come join us this Saturday as we Volunteer in the AM and Party in the PM for the first South End Community Day and Block Party. The day will have two parts: Community Day, 8am-noon, a morning to volunteer for several beautification and clean up projects and Block Party, 6:00pm-10:30pm, food trucks, craft beer and live music on Camden between Park Ave and Tryon St.
We are pleased to partner with South End nonprofit, the Charlotte CommunityToolBank to celebrate their first year in South End and to help facilitate a series of beautification and clean up projects in South End. We have close to 50 volunteers signed up to join us at the ToolBank headquarters at 121 West Kingston Street for Free Breakfast from Common Market and Registration between 8-8:45am. We will head to the project sites so we can begin work at 9am and conclude by Noon. If you haven't registered but would like to join us please email Ted Boyd at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or just show up on Saturday morning. We will plant flowers, create some new flower beds, pick up trash, remove graffiti, clean up along the Rail Trail and an art project or two.
For more information visit www.southendclt.com.
Our Annual Water Tower Contest is Open for Entries
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