NEWS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 12, 2002

NASAO CENTER ANNOUNCES 2002 NATIONAL AVIATION ART CONTEST WINNERS

 Ages 6-9:

            1^st Place – Ruthann Jones (age 9), Virginia

            2^nd Place – Jenny Chen (age 8), California

            3^rd Place – David Mao Ye (age 9), Pennsylvania

 Ages 10-13:

            1^st Place – Bryan Church (age 13), Iowa

            2^nd Place – Miguel Vargas (age 13), Arizona

            3^rd Place – Anna Fixsen (age 12), Minnesota

 Ages 14-17:

            1^st Place – Hillary Krueger (age 15), Wisconsin

            2^nd Place – James Lincke (age 15), Pennsylvania

            3^rd Place – Matthew Gauvin (age 17), Vermont

Twenty-nine states held state aviation art contests in which they submitted the first, second and third place winners in each of the three categories to the national competition.  In total, over 5,000 pieces of art were judged in this year’s contest.  This year’s artwork incorporated the theme “Silent Flight.”

The artwork for the national competition was reviewed by Suzanne Lewis of the National Air and Space Museum; M.V. Clark of the Museum of Contemporary Art; Mark Clark of the National Museum of the American Indian; Margaret Finch, an artist who specializes in aviation and automotive art; James Douglass Haley of the Artistic Apocalypse; Michael Madnick of the United Nations Foundation; and Deborah Gallaway of the Centennial of Flight Commission. 

The winners will receive recognition during the 2002 Spring Awards Reception/Ceremony organized by the National Aeronautics Association to be held at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. on the evening of April 4.  They will also receive an award certificate and ribbon, along with a framed reproduction of their work and a limited edition aviation print by professional artists from the American Society of Aviation Artists. 

NASA and NASAO are also providing the award recipient airfare and hotel to the nation’s capitol for the ceremony.  Their original artwork will be entered into the International Aviation Art Contest to be held by Fédération Aéronautique Internationale in Vienna, Austria on April 27.

The national art contest is sponsored by the NASAO Center for Aviation Research and Education, NAA, NASA, and FAA, and has been held for over ten years.

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