ArtWalk cover contest honorable mentions

By Ben Olson Reader Staff

One of my favorite parts of publishing the Reader is when we hold cover art contests. The talent in this community never ceases to amaze me.

This year, we published a blank-white cover earlier in May inviting artists to submit their cover drawings, paintings, photographs and works in other media for consideration to win a featured spot on the cover of the Thursday, June 15 edition, to be published right before ArtWalk’s kickoff Friday, June 16.

We weren’t disappointed this year, with dozens of fun and fantastic submissions from our community.

Ultimately, we chose a beautiful piece by Matt Lome, which you no doubt saw on this week’s cover.

Lome wins not only the cover for this week’s edition, but $50 in cash. Great job, Matt!

It was a difficult choice this year, made even tougher by the fact that so many submissions came from young people in our community. While we don’t pay anything for honorable mentions, I wanted to recognize a handful of submissions that didn’t win, but we also enjoyed.

Thank you, Sandpoint and surrounds, for sharing your talents with us.

By Lindsay Surdukan.

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