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Jefferson Middle School artists take second-place award in Dogwood Arts Festival Chalk Walk

Posted at 2:00 pm April 16, 2017
By Holly Cross Leave a Comment

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Two Jefferson Middle School sixth-graders, Avery Parish and Anshra Ajaz, along with former JMS student Kiri Nelson, won second place in the Middle School Collaborative category at the Ninth Annual Dogwood Arts Festival Chalk Walk competition on Saturday, April 1, 2017. (Submitted photo)

 

Two Jefferson Middle School sixth-graders, Avery Parish and Anshra Ajaz, along with former JMS student Kiri Nelson, won second place in the Middle School Collaborative category at the Ninth Annual Dogwood Arts Festival Chalk Walk competition on Saturday, April 1.

The girls planned their masterpiece for several months and spent eight hours drawing it onto the pavement at Market Square, a press release said. Their work depicted an old painting of a Kraken attacking a ship and then beginning to emerge in vivid colors from the frame. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Arts, Education, Entertainment, Front Page News, K-12, Top Stories Tagged With: Anshra Ajaz, Avery Parish, Chalk Walk, Dogwood Arts Festival, Dogwood Arts Festival Chalk Walk, Holly Cross, Jefferson Middle School, Jim Dodson, Kiri Nelson

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