{"id":8498,"date":"2015-04-28T13:39:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T17:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=8498"},"modified":"2015-04-29T10:14:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T14:14:35","slug":"delaware-artist-wins-maryland-black-bear-conservation-stamp-design-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2015\/04\/28\/delaware-artist-wins-maryland-black-bear-conservation-stamp-design-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Delaware Artist Wins Maryland Black Bear Conservation Stamp Design Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8499\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/BearStamp2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8499\" class=\"wp-image-8499 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/BearStamp2015-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Maryland Black Bear Conservation Stamp Design Contest Winner by Steve Oliver.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Bear Conservation Stamp Design Contest Winner<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Steve Oliver from New Castle County, Delaware won the 19<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Annual Maryland Black Bear Conservation Stamp Contest with his painting, <em>Autumn Morning,<\/em> of a black bear taking a walk in a meadow.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Black Bear Conservation Program is important and I am happy to support it in any way I can,\u201d said Oliver.<\/p>\n<p>A panel of judges selected Oliver\u2019s work before a crowd on April 26 at the 45th Annual Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition and Art Festival at the Roland E. Powell Convention Center in Ocean City, Md.\u00a0Oliver is the only artist to win this award six times since the contest began in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Since entering into the professional art community in 1995,\u00a0Oliver&#8217;s work\u00a0has won numerous awards and honors,\u00a0and has\u00a0been featured on several conservation and hunting stamps, including the 2010 Delaware Duck Stamp. To see more of his art, visit steveoliverart.com.<\/p>\n<p>Proceeds from the sale of the Black Bear Stamps and other related items are used to compensate Maryland farmers experiencing agricultural damage caused by black bears. These proceeds are added to the Black Bear Compensation Fund established by the Maryland General Assembly. To purchase Black Bear Conservation Program items, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/shopdnr.com\" target=\"_blank\">shopdnr.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keep up to date with <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr2.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">DNR\u2019s Wildlife &amp; Heritage<\/a> Service on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/MD-DNR-Wildlife-Heritage-Service\/264705513668546?ref=hl\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MDDNRWildlife\" target=\"_blank\">@MDDNRWildlife<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Oliver from New Castle County, Delaware won the 19th\u00a0Annual Maryland Black Bear Conservation Stamp Contest with his painting, Autumn Morning, of a black bear taking a walk in a meadow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-wildlife"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8498"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8515,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498\/revisions\/8515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}