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STUDENT’S
PORTRAIT
OF THE
PRESIDENT
IS
HANGING
IN THE
CAPITOL
 Detroit,
MI -
Tangela
Frazier
is an
11th
grade
student
at
Pershing
High
School
who has
worked a
little
harder
than the
average
student.
But, it
has paid
off in a
great
deal of
personal
pride.
She is a
winner
in the
2009
Congressional
Artistic
Discovery
Competition
with her
portrait
of
President
Barack
H. Obama
which
was
noticed
by
Congresswoman
Carolyn
Cheeks
Kilpatrick.
In the
portrait,
Tangela
displays
her
mastery
of the
technique
known as
pointillism-using
just the
point of
the art
tool, in
her case
a pen
and ink,
to
create
thousands
of tiny
dots
that
create
the
image.
As a
winner
in the
competition,
her
black
and
white
portrait
of the
President
was sent
to
Washington
and is
hanging
in the
main
corridor
of the
Capitol
Building.
For her
talents,
Tangela
will
receive
an all
expenses
paid
trip to
the
Capitol
to spend
a day in
Congress
and
attend a
special
reception
on June
24th,
with
winners
from
other
Congressional
Districts.
At the
reception,
all of
the art
pieces
submitted
for the
competition
will be
judged
again.
The
winning
student
will
receive
a full
scholarship
to the
prestigious
Savannah
College
of Art
and
Design.
The trip
to
Washington
will be
the
second
one that
Tangela
has won
because
of her
talents.
She was
a winner
in the
DPS
Inaugural
Art
Contest
which
earned
her a
trip to
the
Capitol
for the
Presidential
inauguration. |
