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Preservation Month Student Poster Contest “Preserving Historic Buildings in Annapolis” An Art Competition for Local Students Submission Deadline: Friday, April 10, 2009 INTRODUCTION Annapolis is a thriving historic city, a “Museum Without Walls” that is alive with the integration of centuries-old architecture. Residents and visitors alike work, play, study, shop, eat, and sleep in these fascinating and surprisingly sturdy buildings from days gone by. These buildings exist today as a result of the concerted efforts and investments made to preserve them and the stories they tell us about our history. To celebrate Preservation Month 2009, Historic Annapolis Foundation invites local students in grades 1 through 12 to submit artwork that focuses on the beautiful historic architecture found in Annapolis. Your 16”x 20” poster can highlight historic buildings or components of buildings (i.e., doors, windows, domes, or steeples). You may want to depict some of Annapolis’s churches, the legislature in session at the State House, Golden Age mansions, the City Dock, or other Annapolis cityscapes – for more suggested subjects, see below. Creativity is encouraged! CONTEST PARTICIPANTS The poster contest is open to children in grades 1 through 12. Submissions will be grouped into categories by grade: 1 – 3, 4 – 5, 6 – 8, and 9 – 12. Winning posters will be selected from each category based on their originality, artistic composition, and demonstration of the contest’s historic preservation theme. A five-person jury made up of members of Annapolis’s art and history communities will select the winning posters. PRIZES First, second, and third-place winners in each category will receive respectively $50, $25, and $15 gift certificates for purchases at the Museum Store at 77 Main Street, and an overall Grand Prize winner will receive a family membership to Historic Annapolis Foundation. In addition, winning posters will be displayed in HistoryQuest at the St. Clair Wright Center at 99 Main Street throughout the month of May, 2009. The Grand Prize winner’s artwork will be featured on Historic Annapolis Foundation’s website and in our Journal. CRITERIA
PROCEDURES In order to be considered, entries must conform to the requirements outlined above. Historic Annapolis Foundation (HAF) may create and use digital images of posters for reproduction and promotional purposes. Winners will be notified in late April and announced on this website and in our Journal publication. Students may pick up their winning submissions after May 31; posters not picked up by June 30 will become the property of HAF. QUESTIONS Contact Jennifer Orrigo, Director of Preservation Services at Historic Annapolis Foundation, (410) 990- 4754, or send an email to Jennifer.Orrigo@annapolis.org. SUBMISSION Historic Annapolis Foundation is partnering with Anne Arundel County Public Schools to promote and help facilitate this year’s poster contest among local public, private, and home school students. Students working on posters as a class assignment or project should submit their artwork as directed by their teachers. Other entries may be sent individually to:
Posters should be sent flat or rolled, not folded, and postmarked no later than April 10, 2009. Please be sure to include a completed entry form and executed release. Click here to download a Poster Contest Entry Form. “Preserving Historic Buildings in Annapolis” is the overall theme of the contest. Possible sites or subjects include but are not limited to: City Dock For most of its history, the harbor was Annapolis’s front door. For over three centuries, the City Dock has been the focus of the town’s maritime activities. In colonial days it connected Annapolis to England and the mother country’s worldwide trade network. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, watermen brought in their catches of oysters and crabs. Today, the Dock welcomes pleasure boaters and round-the-world racing teams alike. Golden Age Annapolis enjoyed its “Golden Age” in the years just before the start of the American Revolution. George Washington and other members of the Chesapeake gentry traveled here to attend the horse races, theater performances, and balls that marked Annapolis as the region’s social capital. Today, you can still visit many of the elegant Georgian houses built by colonial Maryland’s elite families. Four Signers Annapolis patriots led Maryland’s push toward revolution in the 1760s and ’70s. You can still see Annapolis houses once owned by Maryland’s four signers of the Declaration of Independence: William Paca, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Samuel Chase, and Thomas Stone. This is the only town with homes of all of its state’s signers – a tangible reminder of what they risked for independence. Government Annapolis has been Maryland’s capital since 1695. The city was even the capital of the United States for a few months at the end of the American Revolution. George Washington came here to resign his commission as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in December 1783 while Congress was meeting in the State House. Today you can walk the same legislative halls and brick-lined streets as our country’s Founding Fathers. Religion The Carroll home testifies to a period of religious toleration, unique in the 17th-century colonial world. St. Anne’s Church, with its location on Church Circle, subordinate only to the State House, symbolizes the establishment of an official state church when Maryland became a royal colony. St. Mary’s Church, Asbury United Methodist, and the former Mt. Moriah A.M.E. Church (now the Banneker-Douglass Museum) exemplify the flowering of religious diversity following the American Revolution, which ended the privileged position of the Church of England. Annapolis by Kevin Fleming Annapolis: A Walk Through History by Elizabeth B. Anderson Annapolis on the Chesapeake by Arthur Pierce Middleton. Annapolis Vignettes by Ginger Doyel Architecture in Annapolis: A Field Guide Editors Marcia Miller and Orlando Ridout V The Other Annapolis (1900-1950) by Philip L. Brown Then Again…Annapolis, 1900-1965 by Mame Warren The Train’s Done Been & Gone, A Photographic Collection by Marion E. Warren and Mame Warren |
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