Graceful Envelope Winner: Dallas

By Anonymous -
Every year, Mustard Seed students enter an art contest called the Graceful Envelop Contest. This year's theme was"Pushing the Envelope." The artists were tasked to create an envelope that encourages people to communicate through exchanging letters. Artists had to "push the envelope" artistically. The website says that "winners were chosen based on hand lettering, creative interpretation of the theme and effective use of color and design, including incorporation of postage stamp(s)."

 Dallas, our 5th grader, was a winner in the Graceful Envelope Contest. Remarkably, Dallas is in the 5th-8th grade category which is quite hard because he is now at the bottom of the age group. 

Secondly, more international artists entered this year making the competition even more difficult. There were entries from Turkey, Russia, Canada, India, and the US.

Here's the link to the winners. Dallas's was on a tan envelope and has a train on it. This is a link to the images from his category! 

Congrats Dallas!



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