First Lady Ann LePage Announces Selected Artists for Maine is ME Art Challenge

First Lady partners with the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy to create Love.Read.Learn!™ Baby Journal

Augusta, Maine - First Lady Ann M. LePage is announcing the selected artists for the Maine is ME Student Art Challenge. Artwork was submitted by 867 children in grades K-8 throughout Maine. The selected artwork will be featured in the First Lady’s upcoming family-friendly Love.Read.Learn!™ Baby Journal, to be published in partnership with the Barbara Bush Foundation. The journal is a scrapbook-style booklet that promotes literacy and health to Maine families with newborn babies. The baby journal will be provided at no cost to parents of newborns in 2013.

“I would like to extend my sincerest thanks to every child who participated in the Maine is ME art
challenge,” said First Lady Ann LePage. “Congratulations to the selected artists. Maine children are enthusiastic and creative and certainly made this a tough decision,” continued the First Lady.

Please join First Lady LePage at two showings of participants’ artwork:

December 16, 2012, at the University of New England in the George and Barbara Bush Center from 10 a.m. – noon for a display of student artwork from Androscoggin, Kennebec, Cumberland and York counties.

December 20, 2012, at the Maine Discovery Museum in from 4–6 p.m. for a display of all student artwork from Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Hancock, Washington, Lincoln, Waldo, Franklin, Knox and Somerset counties.

Selected artists were chosen based on the use of elements and principles of design, engagement of the viewer and competence and skill in the use of the selected medium.

The following is a list of artists whose work was selected to appear in Maine’s Love.Read.Learn! Baby Journal, which will begin distribution on June 1, 2013:

Olivia Boyle, Peaks Island

Anna Peterson, Cutler

Abby Fitzhenny, Cutler

Mary-Hollie Whitmore, Bradley

Ariana Dyer, Bangor

Autumn Ditzel, Bangor

Kaden Hannan, Bangor

Kaydence Lux, Bangor

Grace Dimik, Portland

Galen Gaze, Brunswick

Devon Roma, Auburn

Hannah Stauffer, Auburn

Emilee Morgan, Sanford

Kevin Duplessie, Caribou

Kelsea Fuller, Westbrook

Eva Jacot-Descombes, Rangeley

Abigail Bennett, Brewer

Mariah Hajduk, Winthrop

Holly Desjardins, Poland

Cade King, Windsor

Andrew Frost, Withrop

Samuel Lattin, Winthrop

Emma Lombardo, Westbrook

Kiara Lantiqua, Belfast

Chloe Lawrence, Hampden

Zoe Olsen, Bucksport

Macey Jordan, Hancock

Ian Gervais, Chelsea

Anna Sheikh, Waterville

Emma Fitzhenny, Cutler

Owen Moore, Gorham

For more information about the Barbara Bush Foundation please contact Elizabeth Hirst at 850-562-5300 or by email at Elizabeth@barbarabushfoundation.com.