FORNEY, Texas — North Forney High School AP art student Amanda Villarreal, a junior, recently won 1st place in the 2017 Congressional Art Competition for the 5th Congressional District.
FORNEY, Texas — North Forney High School AP art student Amanda Villarreal, a junior, recently won 1st place in the 2017 Congressional Art Competition for the 5th Congressional District.
The win signifies the fifth time a North Forney High School student has been selected to represent the 5th Congressional District since the campus opened in 2009.
Villarreal’s artwork, “Friday Night Lights,” will hang in the U.S. Capital Building for a year — alongside artwork from congressional districts across the country. She will travel, for the first time, to Washington D.C. to meet with District 5 Representative Jeb Hensarling for a ceremony on June 29.
In 2016 and 2015, North Forney High School student Emma Sumrow represented District 5 with her acrylic painting “Same Species, Different Colors” and a pastel drawing “Time is Golden,” respectively. In 2014, Myra Castillo won with her artwork “Cosmos” and Yvonne Almorado won in 2013 with her artwork “Fall in the Courtyard.”
“Each spring, the Congressional Institute sponsors a nationwide high school visual art competition to recognize and encourage artistic talent in the nation and in each congressional district. Since the competition began in 1982, more than 650,000 high school students have participated," according to the United States House of Representatives' website.
