Yesterday's event at the Okefenokee Heritage Center was renamed the Steve Bean Youth Art Exhibit, after my good friend and Center Director, Steve Bean. Included in the picture is Rob's good friend, Robert Stewart, and Steve's nephew, Cody Goode.
Youth, parents and friends gathered to hear the names of the Art contest winners. This was a well intended event. Steve would have loved. He did a great deal to promote youth and the arts at the Heritage Center, including Arts Camps in the summer.
Helping bring a more complete definition to the word "Arts", I read the story The Scribe by Jackson Bowman, who was the First Place story winner in our writing contest held in October.
Grand Prize winner Elizabeth Bagley standing in front of her prize winning entry.
Two of the Youth Art prize winners standing in front of the sign showing that this is the Steve Bean Youth Art Exhibit.
Stay tuned, because there will be another event in Steve Bean's honor, an Arts Guild Festival on May 9th, involving all the Guilds and all the activities Steve helped sponsor and grow at the Heritage Center. I will keep you updated as this fantastic event gets closer!
Wonderful! Thank you for sharing all of this!
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