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January 6, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Larry Hodge, larry.hodge@tpwd.state.tx.us; (903) 670-2255
(The
national State-Fish Art Contest Expo is coming to the Texas Freshwater
Fisheries Center in Athens in July 2010, and we need your help to make it
the biggest and best ever. If you would like to have a booth at the expo,
conduct a hands-on activity for visitors, or become a sponsor of the expo,
please contact us as soon as possible.)
Texas State-Fish Art Contest Seeks Entries, Expo Sponsors and Exhibitors
Deadline for entries is March 31
ATHENS, Texas—Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) officials intend to
make the 2010 State-Fish Art Contest expo at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries
Center (TFFC) in Athens the biggest and best in the contest’s history, and
they need your help.
Wildlife Forever, the national sponsor of the contest, has agreed to move
the national competition and expo from the Mall of America in Brooklyn
Center, Minnesota, to TFFC for the July 17 event.
The Toyota Bass Classic Foundation funds the Texas division of the contest,
including cash prizes for Texas winners. However, in order to put on a
Texas-size event, TFFC is seeking the cooperation of additional sponsors to
put on a day-long outdoor show with hands-on activities and exhibits for the
contest winners, their families, and the public.
Outdoor-related businesses and organizations are invited to have a booth to
display and sell merchandise or to sponsor a demonstration or hands-on
activity such as outdoor cooking, camping, archery, casting, fly-fishing,
making fish prints or rock climbing.
Especially wanted are artists who combine an interest in the outdoors with
their art, whether it be sculpture, painting, woodcarving, pottery,
jewelry-making or more. “We want to showcase a broad range of outdoor
activities and types of art to acquaint students with the variety of
artistic endeavors, recreation and career opportunities available to them,”
said Zoe Ann Stinchcomb, coordinator of the Texas division of the contest.
“The ultimate goal of the contest is to foster a lifelong interest in
conservation and the outdoors through art.”
Artists are invited to have a booth to sell their art and to demonstrate the
techniques used in making it.
The State-Fish Art Contest is open to any student in grades 4 through 12 in
public, private or home schools. Texas entries are judged at TFFC and are
due March 31. Contest information and entry form can be found at
www.tpwd.state.tx.us/fishart.
A video about the contest may be viewed at
http://www.youtube.com/TexasParksWildlife#p/c/EEFA84B51D1C2C8B/0/i0rPPgaBJdA
Businesses, organizations and individuals wishing to sponsor or take part in
the expo should contact Stinchcomb at (903) 670-2238 or e-mail
zoeann.stinchcomb@tpwd.state.tx.us.
On the Net:
www.tpwd.state.tx.us/fishart
http://www.youtube.com/TexasParksWildlife#p/c/EEFA84B51D1C2C8B/0/i0rPPgaBJdA
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