RANGELEY — The winners of the second annual Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum Student Art Contest were recently announced. The RLRLM Art Contest was made part of the curriculum under RLRS upper school art instructor, Sonja Johnson, for the second year in a row. This project has offered the RLRS students an opportunity to research the logging industry in their community and connect them to their families and neighbors in a new and historical way.

Twenty students from Johnson’s classes made entries which were judged during the Friday evening program at the Logging Festival at the end of July.

Of the 20 contest entries all three winners were freshmen. Perhaps one of the incentives that spurred the students was the $100 cash prize from the museum.

First place winner was Seve Deery-DeRaps, who entered an acrylic painting depicting two men using a cross cut saw to do their work. It was a relief piece which she employed to give additional depth to the forest.

Second place winner, according to the two professional judges, Harry and Mary Ellen Simon who own and operate Simon Gallery in Morristown, N.J., was student Rachael Weaver, whose art was a pastel drawing of a draft horse hauling a load of logs.

In third place, Elijah Hall’s work depicting two of his father’s logging trucks was done in scratchboard.

All of the entries were displayed at the Rangeley Logging Museum from the Logging Festival in July through Labor Day where hundreds of visitors were able to view the work.

The third annual contest is already in the works with a possibility of an expansion for a photo contest as well. The 2013 RLRLM Art Contest entries will be on display and judged on Friday, July 26, at the Church of the Good Shepherd as part of the Logging Festival’s Friday Night events that also include the Little Miss & Mr. Woodchip Talent Contest and the 2013 Loggers’ Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Artworks will remain on display through the summer of 2013 at the Rangeley Logging Museum.

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