{"id":7494,"date":"2018-03-09T13:15:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T18:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=7494"},"modified":"2018-11-05T16:14:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T21:14:22","slug":"anna-fox-wins-grand-prize-nasa-langley-student-art-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/anna-fox-wins-grand-prize-nasa-langley-student-art-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Fox wins grand prize in NASA Langley student art contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI don\u2019t really like a lot of attention,\u201d shared Anna Fox, a seventh-grader in the gifted visual arts program at Virginia Beach Middle School.<\/p>\n

She may need to get a little more used to attention after being named the grand prize winner of NASA Langley Research Center\u2019s annual student art contest. Her digital artwork was selected for the top honor from among 13 first-place, grade-level winners across grades K-12. A record 831 entries were submitted from children in 39 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, according to according to an article<\/a> on NASA\u2019s website about the grand prize winner.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think it\u2019s pretty cool. My parents, my family and my teachers are really happy for me,\u201d said Fox a day after the March 8 announcement.<\/p>\n

The art contest theme, \u201cThe Next 100 Years,\u201d was intended to illustrate how NASA research and innovation propels science to new discoveries.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to do a galaxy because I thought it explained the theme best,\u201d said Fox of her winning artwork, which she created using Photoshop. \u201cI didn\u2019t know how to do a galaxy digitally, so I looked at some videos. I just started with basic colors, the blue and the sunburst. There\u2019s little bit of the sun and an explosion from the rocket taking off. There is an astronaut planting a flag on the planet\u2019s surface. It\u2019s an unknown planet.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Does Fox want to be the one standing on a planet someday?<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not really interested in going into space but I\u2019m interested in<\/em> space,\u201d she said. \u201cSpace is really cool. Like, how they think if you travel around a black hole, you could slow down time or something.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speeding up<\/em> time and looking to the future, Fox plans to use her artistic talents in a career.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to be an animator or a concept artist \u2013 like, for movies, just giving them a concept or ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Citing the \u201cThe Lion King\u201d as her favorite animated movie, she recalls drawing another animal as a young artist.<\/p>\n

\u201cEver since I could pick up a pencil, I\u2019ve been drawing. I remember was really super proud of this tiger I drew. I think I was six or seven. I think it was my best artwork at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her best artwork of more recent times, according to NASA Langley Research Center, is featured at the top of the student art contest website for all to see. It also will be on display at the Virginia Air & Space Center in Hampton, Virginia.<\/p>\n

Website visitors also can view artwork from two additional Virginia Beach City Public Schools students, Alaura Knoop and Sophie Barbosa, who earned awards in the art contest.<\/p>\n

Knoop, a ninth-grader at Ocean Lakes High School, won first place for her grade level. She was a first-place finisher in the same art contest as an eighth-grader<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Barbosa, a sixth-grader in the gifted visual arts program at Virginia Beach Middle School, won an honorable mention.<\/p>\n

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The 13 grade-level winners were selected by a panel of five judges from the Hampton Roads art community, and the grand champion was picked by Langley employees. Each piece was evaluated on originality, interpretation of subject matter\/theme, creative techniques, composition and overall art appearance.<\/p>\n

Visit artcontest.larc.nasa.gov<\/a> to see all of the winning submissions.<\/p>\n

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