{"id":8502,"date":"2015-04-28T13:42:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T17:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=8502"},"modified":"2015-04-29T10:14:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T14:14:18","slug":"towson-artist-wins-the-maryland-migratory-game-bird-stamp-design-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2015\/04\/28\/towson-artist-wins-the-maryland-migratory-game-bird-stamp-design-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Towson Artist Wins the Maryland Migratory Game Bird Stamp Design Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8503\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/DuckStamp2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8503\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-8503\" src=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/DuckStamp2015-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"41st annual Maryland Migratory Game Bird Stamp Design Contest  Winner\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migratory Game Bird Stamp Design Contest Winner<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jim Taylor from Towson won the 41<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Annual Maryland Migratory Game Bird Stamp Design Contest with his painting titled <em>Sunset Canvasbacks<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love painting waterfowl,\u201d said Taylor. \u201cIt is a great honor to have my artwork chosen when so many talented Maryland artists entered the contest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A panel of judges selected Taylor\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. This is the fourth time he\u00a0has won the\u00a0contest.<\/p>\n<p>The Maryland Migratory Game Bird Stamp Design Contest showcases the talents of our\u00a0state\u2019s gifted wildlife artists while raising funds for conservation. Migratory game bird hunters are required to purchase these stamps and the proceeds fund migratory game bird research and habitat enhancement on the state\u2019s public lands. Since 1974, stamp sales have provided more than\u00a0$7 million for\u00a0migratory game projects.<\/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>Jim Taylor from Towson won the 41st\u00a0Annual Maryland Migratory Game Bird Stamp Design Contest with his painting titled Sunset Canvasbacks.<\/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-8502","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\/8502","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=8502"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8514,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions\/8514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}