Mount Tabor Student Wins Annual Bookmark Design Contest for Students

Julie Knabb of Art for Arts Sake with winner Angie Avila

Angie Avila, who is a junior at Mount Tabor High School, has won the annual bookmark design contest for students sponsored by Bookmarks and Art for Art’s Sake (AFAS).

Avila’s artwork for the 2014 art contest has been printed on 5,000 bookmarks to be distributed throughout Winston-Salem and surrounding counties. She was honored at a reception held on Friday, Aug. 8 for “Unbound & Unleashed, Celebrating Books and Authors through Art.” Her work, along with four other winning student’s entries, will be on display as a part of this juried art exhibit at the Womble Carlyle Gallery inside of the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts through September 6.

Megan Monaghan, a freshman at Mount Tabor, received second place, and Lauren Busic, an eighth-grader at Clemmons Middle School, received third place. Honorable mentions went to Anna Pate Glover, a senior at Mount Tabor, and Alaina Withers, a seventh-grader at Clemmons Middle.

Bookmarks is a literary arts organization based in Winston-Salem. It sponsors an annual free book festival, author talks, and the Authors in Schools program, which reached 5,000 students in 2013. Bookmarks’ 10th festival of books and authors will be held on Sept. 6, 2014 at the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts and in the surrounding area on Spruce Street. Visit Bookmarks for more information.

Art for Art’s Sake builds, educates and celebrates Community through Art. Arts on Sunday, held on Trade Street during the months of May and October, features arts, crafts, and music. Visit Art for Arts Sake for more information. Julie Knabb is vice chairman and art director of Art for Art's Sake.