OMS 2016 Double Decker Art Show Features Artistic Talents of School Students

2016 Best of Show titles belong to Oxford Middle School students Hannah Spillers (left) and Olivia-May Gunderson. Spillers won Best of Show for 8th Grade and Gunderson won Best of Show for 7th Grade. Photo: Oxford School District

Oxford Middle School (OMS) student artists joined artists from throughout the southeast in displaying artwork for sale to festival-goers during this year’s annual Double Decker Arts Festival.

For the second year in a row, the Double Decker Art Show and Sell event—a school art contest coordinated by the OMS Parent Teacher Organization (PTO)—spotlighted the artistic talents of Oxford seventh and eighth graders in several ways.

OMS hosted the 2016 Double Decker Art Show and Sell, a private preview party for family and friends that was held at the school before the Double Decker Arts Festival. During the school event, OMS art contest winners were announced, and participants could purchase student artwork before being sold to the public at the Double Decker Arts Festival that following Saturday.

“We hope participation in the event will grow over the years,” said OMS parent Cris Hughes, who chaired the event this year and spearheaded the creation of the school fundraising event last school year. “Our hope is that it will be a much anticipated school event for students as they enter Oxford Middle School.”

Pictured are Oxford Middle School 2016 Double Decker Art Show and Sell contest winners: (front row, left to right) Christopher Schove (Third Place and Honorable Mention, Drawing; Third Place, Painting), Fawaz Ahmad (Honorable Mention, Painting), Ty’Kel Owens (Second Place, Drawing), (middle row, left to right) Hannah Spillers (First Place, Painting; Best of Show 8th Grade), Elsie Buskes (Second Place, Photography), Olivia-May Gunderson (First Place, Photography; Best of Show 7th Grade), Frances Abernathy (Honorable Mention, Photography), (back row, left to right) Lorelai Soto (First Place, Mixed Media/Digital Art; First Place, Drawing), Lillie Austin (Honorable Mention, Mixed Media/Digital Art), Christopher Certion (Third Place, Photography), and Matt Sparks (Second Place, Mixed Media/Digital Art). Not pictured are Sam Copley (Second Place, Painting) and Aubrey Best (Third Place, Mixed Media/Digital Art).

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