2009 Theme & Award Winners

Our 2009 Theme was “Beginnings”

Olive Tree Arts, a ministry of Christian Fellowship Church invited all area artists to thematically explore the visual and spiritual richness of the biblical narrative of Genesis chapters 1 thru 3 through the creation of new and original works of art in their preferred style and medium. No entry fee was required for artwork to be considered for entry in the exhibit. Artists were encourage to enter one of the following divisions: Artists Community (18 and up), Collegiate Division (currently attending a college or university), or Scholar Division (ages 12 to 18). Each artist was allowed to submit up to 2 entries with only 1 entry per theme, of the artists choosing.

Themes available for submission are listed listed below with each themes accompanying passage:
Themes: creation – Genesis 1-2:3
paradise – Genesis 2:4-25
paradise lost – Genesis 3
the seed who will crush the serpent – Genesis 3:15

2009 Award Winners

Artist Community

First Place $1000 Theme: Creation Brent Michael “Silence and Solitude”	Second Place $750 Theme: Creation Susan Petty “Creation”	Third Place $500 Theme: Creation Sue Freundenberg “And It Was So”	Fourth Place $250 Theme: Creation Brizaida Medina-Vega “Tree of Choices”

Collegiate Division

First Place $750 Theme: Creation Jenna Brock “Creation 2″	Second Place $500 Theme: Creation Matthew Market “Called out of Darkness”	Third Place $250 Theme: Creation Amber McCullough “Creation”	Fourth Place $100 Certificate Theme: Paradise Lost Christopher Wilke “The Lovers”