CARL JUNCTION, Mo. —
One of Carl Junction’s youngest award winning artists will be signing and selling small prints of her work at tonight’s Rhythm & Hues Jazz & Art Festival.
Chase Boyd, a seventh-grader, edged out 100 other Carl Junction junior high students to win the local Lions Club Peace Poster contest. The entries were displayed in the Community Center last fall.
Hers, “Be a Piece of the Peace Puzzle,” then went on to compete and win at the district and state levels, and qualified her for the international competition.
She didn’t win at the international level, but nonetheless is thrilled with her achievement, as are three of her biggest supporters: The Carl Junction Leo Club adviser, Katie Smith; her art teacher, Elizabeth Cosby; and her mother, Joey Boyd.
“I was really happy, because there were a couple other posters that were really good too,” said the younger Boyd.
Her mother said the teen came home from school after learning of the contest with determination to win it.
“I told her not to get her hopes up,” her mother said.
Chase Boyd spent three weeks creating her entry.
“I did most of the work in the classroom, but since it took me longer than the others, since I put a lot of detail in it, I had to take it home sometimes. I stayed after school and came in early too,” she said.
The design, done primarily in watercolor pencil, features children from diverse backgrounds, and puzzle pieces. In each of the children’s eyes are peace signs.
“They’re visualizing peace,” she said.
At the last minute, Boyd also decided to incorporate into her design white doves as an additional symbol of peace.
“The Lions Club implemented the contest to get students to think about peace in a different sort of way, and since it’s international, they get to see that students from other countries are in many ways thinking about the same things they’re thinking about,” said Smith.
Cosby implemented the contest into her art curriculum last year. Last year’s winner, Lauran White, also will sign prints tonight of her winning peace poster.
Boyd will attend a banquet celebrating her honor at the district level on March 10, then a state level banquet later in the spring.
Time and place
Rhythm & Hues begins at 5 to 10:30 p.m. in the Jerry B. Stark Performing Arts Center. Admission is $2.
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Chase Boyd, a Carl Junction seventh-grader, explains the elements of the award-winning poster she submitted in a Lions Club contest. She and Lauran While, last year’s local winner, will sign and sell copies of their work tonight. GLOBE | ANDRA STEFANONI
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