Winners announced in Off the Wall art contest at The Candy Factory

Here are the winners in the 12th “Off the Wall” art contest for students at the Candy Factory in Manassas.

Visual Art
1st place: Michelle Lowe, Untitled, Graphic Design, Forest Park
2nd place: Husna Khan, Untitled, Dry Point Etching, Potomac
3rd place: Rachel Hong, Musical Reflections, Digital Photography, Battlefield

Honorable Mention:
Jason Anderson, Califi, Pastel, Osbourn Park
Tori Burns, Just Swimming Through, Graphic Design, Forest Park
Abrielle Genest, Untitled, Digital Image, Woodbridge
Allison Michas, Water is Life, Digital Art, Patriot
Sarah Solomon, Untitled, Digital Image, Woodbridge

Poetry Contest
1st place: Taylor Petty, Untitled, Woodbridge
2nd place: Kaitlyn Graham, The Origin of Art, Woodbridge
3rd place Katherine Brown, Penance, Woodbridge

The contest was for a one page poem that had to have somewhere in the poem the phrase “when poets confront art.”

Wearable Art
Leon Sunga, 1st prize winner from Osbourn High.

In its second year, the wearable art contest required the student to use at least 50% recycled “material” to create a garment to wear or have a model wear to the Open House (January 9) to be juried for 1st prize. Leon Sunga, 1st prize winner from Osbourn High School in Manassas used recycled strips of paper, much of it from his person school papers, to create a “Gatsby” themed white dress.

The contest, in its 12th year, is sponsored by Lockheed Martin. The visual art exhibit will be on display until February 5.