$5,000 Grand Prize Forever in Silence Michael Blome SR: Jersey Village HS Cy-Fair ISD Teacher: Karen Dillard	$2,500 2nd Place Blue Mood Lindsey Smith Cy-Woods HS Cy-Fair ISD Teacher: Betsy Anderson	$1,500 3rd Place Between the Lines Kaley Broadus SR: Klein Forest HS Klein ISD Teacher: Susan McEwen	$1,000 4th Place Pondering Future Adventures Bless Yee SR: Friendswood HS Friendswood ISD Teacher: Jan Nemitz	$500 5th Place Inkblots Erica Zingaro SR: Klein Collins HS Klein ISD Teacher: Randy Rankin
$250 6th Place See No Evil Sisi Zhang SR: Bellaire HS Houston ISD Teacher: Mary Rogers	$250 7th Place Healing Sarah Kent JR: The John Cooper School PRIVATE Teacher: Jayla Davis	$250 8th Place Home//Sleek Quintin Scrantz SR: The Woodlands College Park HS Conroe ISD Teacher: Betty Arnold	$250 9th Place An Open Matter Adriana Diaz JR: Aldine HS Aldine ISD Teacher: Karen Cruise	$250 10th Place Pieces of Me Mimi Nguyen SR: Kerr HS Alief ISD Teacher: Lisa Canorro
Honorable Mention...
Coloratura Laura Baker JR: Tomball HS Tomball ISD Teacher: Evelyn Bouley	Gray Matter Tiffany Chan SR: Clear Lake HS Clear Creek ISD Teacher: Richard Williams	Fading Memories Josette Chen SR: Cinco Ranch HS Katy ISD Teacher: Christie Skinner	Stark Reality Kristen Ferguson SR: Clear Lake HS Clear Creek ISD Teacher: Richard Williams	Eugene Charlotte Moreland SR: Klein Collins HS Klein ISD Teacher: Randy Rankin

About the Jurors...

Ana Chapman-Wydrinski started painting at the age of 4 and took art classes all through Jr. High and High School. She put herself through college selling her paintings and worked at the Westgate Dinner Theatre for 5 years while going to school helping with set design and choreography. She worked under the direction of Joel Lipman and helped direct the Art and Literary Guild of the University of Toledo. They ran an Arts Night where poets, artists, songwriters, etc. would come together and present their new works for evaluation which grew to over 200 people on the average. She taught Art appreciation, Art, Music, Drama, and Dance at Christ the King School in Sylvania, Ohio. Her accomplishments include: Art, Music, and Literary Editor of Entering Toledo Magazine: Advanced Artistic studies at Toledo Museum of Art; Fine Art and Music Editor, and Christian Voice Newspaper, Dallas/Ft. Worth. She has displayed in well over 1000 juried art shows around the country, with various awards. She is a gallery owner/art teacher and was recently featured in the Houston Chronicle (Sept. 7th, 2006).

Fran Padgett’s motto is: “I’ll be a breast cancer survivor when I die of something else. In the meantime, I expect to be alive every day in every sense of the word.” Diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001, Fran left her successful business career of many years to return full time to her passions for painting and writing. On the morning after receiving her breast cancer diagnosis, Fran retreated to the beaches of Galveston, painting from sunrise to sunrise, and on to sunrise again. As she faced the year of treatment and the eventual pronouncement of becoming a “breast cancer survivor,” Fran chronicled – on paper and on canvas – her personal farewell to her body. Through her art, and through her new book, “Breast Cancer Recovery: No One Wrote a Manual”, Fran shares the triumphs, the sadness, the intensely personal choices; the ironies, the laughter, the tears; the sensations of survival and the complexities of healing.

“Fran Padgett’s work is deeply emotional – touching the inner need to heal and to move forward into harmony. Her works stand apart from others; truly a creative legacy to hold near to our hearts.”

Lisa Qualls has a BFA from the University of Texas and has studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons in New York, NY as well as CISIM in Ravenna, Italy. She is primarily a sculptor but has also shown as a photographer, printmaker and performance artist. Lisa taught high school art for five years. In 2003 she received a project grant from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County. Most recently she exhibited work at the Art Car Museum and the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. She lives and works in Houston, TX.

Peggy Sexton is a mixed media fiber artist, concentrating in surface design. Her work focuses on dimension and contradiction using unlikely materials juxtaposed with hand dyed silks and delicate thread work. Sexton’s award winning art cloth, collage, and sculpture pieces have been exhibited in galleries through out the United States. Among these are Gallery Mendocino Collage, Ukiah, CA, The Art Station Gallery, Stone Mountain, GA, The Archway Gallery, The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, the International Quilt Festival, and the Jung Center, Houston, TX. Her commercial art career includes: graphic design in print and TV, and technical illustration. She has judged high school and adult exhibits.