CTRHC Mural Design Contest Winners

Congratulations to FISD senior Kaeli Karber, the winner of the Central Texas Rail History Center Mural Design Contest! Kaeli's design will be recreated into a mural that will be installed at the CTRHC in Downtown Flatonia. Other students that the CTRHC committee would like to recognize with honorable mentions are Jose M. Manzano, Kaylan Aguillon and Jaylen Gomez.

For the contest, each entrant was asked to creatively design a landscape that displays FISD school pride and a love for our community of Flatonia. The winners are featured below, but to see more contest entries, visit either of these galleries at the Artsonia website:

Secondary CTRHC Contest Entries: 

www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?project=1756012

Elementary CTRHC Entries: 

www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?project=1756009

Winner: 

Kaeli Karber

Title: "A Journey of Opportunities"

Description of the piece by the artist:

"In this piece below, I chose to show the journey from the first day of school to the very last. Since this community revolves so much around the school, I thought it to be fitting to show all that is available to the students."

Honorable Mention: 

Jose M. Manzano

Title: "The Amazing Flatonia"

Description of the piece by the artist:

"Flatonia has many cool things. This mural is to show that we love our Flatonia community!"

Honorable Mention: 

Kaylan Aguillon

Title: "Flatonia Community Pride"

Description of the piece by the artist:

"I chose these things to creatively express our pride because it represents the community of Flatonia and our Bulldog pride."

Honorable Mention: 

Jaylen Gomez

Title: "Flatonia School Spirit"

Description of the piece by the artist:

"I picked these things to show what we do in Flatonia and what we have at Flatonia School."

“School and Community Pride”

Mural Design Competition

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Sponsored by the Central Texas Rail History Center

About this Art Contest: The Central Texas Rail History Center (CTRHC) is sponsoring the School Pride Mural Design Competition. This competition has been created to encourage Flatonia Independent School District (FISD) students to use their creativity to create a two-dimensional design that displays pride in our Flatonia schools and in the Flatonia community. This contest is open to any enrolled FISD student grades pre-kindergarten - 12th grade. The grand prize winner will have the chance to collaborate with the FISD Art Department and CTRHC to have their design recreated and featured as a mural piece at the CTRHC.

To Enter:

• Entrant must be an enrolled student at FISD, Pre-K through 12th grade.
• The entrant must create a design using the attached contest entry form while following the contest rules below. A student is allowed to create as many design entries as he or she sees fit.
• Besides a design, the entrant must have the remainder of the entry form filled out and signed with the approval of a parent or legal guardian. Any missing information will disqualify the entrant’s design.
• All completed entries need to be turned into either of the FISD front offices (elementary or secondary campus) before 3:35 PM on Friday, April 12th.
• Note that contest entries might not be returned to the student.

Contest Rules:

1. Using the official contest entry form, creatively design a landscape that displays FISD school pride and a love for our community of Flatonia.
2. Design must be created by hand using two-dimensional media (i.e. paint, colored pencils, crayons, pastels). Please do not submit any collage or three-dimensional work.
3. Design must fit within the rectangle on the entry sheet.
4. Content must be school appropriate.
5. Designs must be original to the student submitting. Do not trace or use another person or organization’s intellectual property, with the acception of any FISD logos, typography or FISD graphic design.

Privacy:  Entrants, parents and guardians agree that any personal data collected on the entry form may be used by FISD and CTRHC in relation to the contest and normal contest procedures.

Publicity:  Once an entry is submitted, the entrant and the parent or legal guardian agree to waive any intellectual property rights of the design and is transferred over to the property of FISD and CTRHC. FISD and CTRHC are allowed to use and display the entry design in anyway they deem fit.  

By entering the contest, entrants, parents and guardians also agree to participate in any media or promotional activities resulting from the contest, but not at the entrant’s monetary expense.

Notification of Winner:  The winner of the contest will be notified using the contact information provided on the entry form. He or she will be notified the week of April 15th, 2019.

Prize: The winner will get the chance to collaborate with the FISD Art Department and CTRHC to have their design recreated and featured as a mural piece at the CTRHC. The winner will also gain artistic recognition by having their design publicly displayed on different FISD school affiliated media sites and through local media outlets.

Click here to access the contest entry form.