Lewiston 7YO Wins Idaho Card Contest

Award-winning Lewiston artist Kate McDougall works in a variety of media, with a particular focus on splatter paint. The diminutive 7-year-old grand prize winner of Idaho’s holiday card contest said she’s been exploring art since she was, well, smaller. “When I was a little baby, I made a little handprint with my smashed food,” McDougall said. The image she designed for the contest - two cardinals perched beak-to-beak against a backdrop of birch trees and falling snow - has been printed on cards for her parents, Liz and Jeff McDougall, to send to family and friends. Students in kindergarten through sixth grade can enter the annual competition, organized by the Idaho State Department of Education/ Mary Stone , Lewiston Tribune. More here. (Lewiston Tribune photo: Whitman Elementary second-grader Kate McDougall shows her artwork of two cardinals in birch trees)