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“Mora Ice Cream, Please,” by Joyce Donaldson.
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Kitsap Arts & Crafts Festival July 26-28 54th annual event showcases some of the region’s best emerging artists
now a research assistant and staff artist at Duke University’s Center for Advanced Hindsight. “The scholarship was very important to realizing my identity as an artist,” she said. “Going through the By RICHARD WALKER process of application and presenting my work Kitsap Week was very validating to me INGSTON — The when I was getting ready Kitsap Arts & to attend RISD. Heading Crafts Festival off to art school isn't necat Mike Wallace Park is essarily the wisest course more than a threeof action in an unstaday showcase of ble economy and local art. I was also still Cover For many grappling with aspiring and whether I could Story emerging artists, make art work the event is a life for me as a career changer. rather than a hobby. The festival raises Hearing that other people money for college scholin the community liked arships. Scholarship my work and believed in recipients have gone on my potential as an artist to art and graphic design was very valuable to me.” careers, and in some Emily Zach, a Kingston unique fields. High School grad, went on Maddy Trower, a West to Western Washington Sound Academy grad University and is now who went on to Rhode a photo researcher at Island School of Design, is Becker & Mayer, a pub-
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lisher in Bellevue. She’s helped design book covers and debuted as a hand model. Her father, Jamie, is a past scholarship recipient and an active artist. Megan Oost graduated from North Kitsap High School and earned a B.A. in studio art, summa cum laude, at Whitman College. She is working on an advanced degree at Virginia Commonwealth University. Oost is a jewelry maker, painter and three-dimensional artist whose works have been shown in exhibitions in Richmond, Va., Baltimore, Md., and Walla Walla. After grad school, she will teach art or work as an artist. “She was so grateful for the scholarship,” her mother, Margaret, said. “It really helped her.” Since 1975, Kitsap Arts & Crafts has awarded 185 scholarships to local young people to help further their arts education. Each scholarship is $2,000 See ARTS, Page 3
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