Malone Elementary School student Grace Albarado is the proud winner of Artsonia’s Artist of the Week contest, a voting competition held on Artsonia.com, the world’s largest collection of student …
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Malone Elementary School student Grace Albarado is the proud winner of Artsonia’s Artist of the Week contest, a voting competition held on Artsonia.com, the world’s largest collection of student art portfolios exhibiting over 75 million pieces of student art.
Albarado received more than nine hundred online votes for her winning artwork. When asked how she felt when she found out she won Artist of the Week, Albarado said, “I am so proud of myself.”
Albarado’s teacher, Colleen Ready has been teaching art for more than twenty-one years. Ready enjoys sharing her love of art with her students and is proud to have them recognized for their artistic achievements. “The look of pride on their face for their accomplishment warms my heart and makes me so happy for them,” said Ready.
Ready is one of the thousands of art teachers from over 100 countries around the world who use Artsonia to showcase their student art, crowdsource lesson plans and help fundraise for their classrooms. Artsonia lets family and friends of student artists create and purchase organic keepsakes from the student art, and then gives back 20 percent of all revenue to the local art classroom.
Artsonia developed Artist of the Week ten years ago as a way to encourage teachers to submit student artwork and engage the school and community to vote on and recognize students for their achievements. Every week, Artsonia selects 12 random submissions in each of four different age groups (PreK-3, 4-6,7-9,10-12) from artwork submitted the previous week. Voting is then open to the public for several days before the winner is announced.
Blick Art Materials generously donates a $100 gift certificate to the winning school and an individual $50 gift certificate to the student artist.
“Our mission at Artsonia is to bring communities together to celebrate children's artistic expressions,” said Jim Meyers, CEO and co-founder of the company. “Artist of the week is a perfect way to get local schools, families and friends involved in the process of creating, recognizing and cherishing student art.”
Grace Albarado
