BALTIMORE (Nov. 24, 2020) \u2014 Two students from Linganore High School in Frederick \u2014 Peyton Johnson and Tatum Hart\u2014 were online voters\u2019 choices to win this year\u2019s virtual \u201cRethink Recycling\u201d student art show. Rethink Recycling challenges Maryland high school students to use recycled materials to create artistic and innovative sculptures. # # # Two Frederick students win \u2018Rethink Recycling\u2019 art competition BALTIMORE (Nov. 24, 2020) \u2014 Two students from Linganore High School in Frederick \u2014 Peyton Johnson and Tatum Hart\u2014 were online voters\u2019 choices to win this year\u2019s virtual \u201cRethink Recycling\u201d student art show. Rethink Recycling challenges Maryland high school students to use recycled materials to create artistic Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":296,"comment_status":"closed","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":[58,21,1],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-3318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-secretary-summers","category-sustainability","category-uncategorized","tag-recycling"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3318"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3488,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions\/3488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The annual competition, which is normally held in person with judges at Montgomery Park Auditorium in Baltimore City, was conducted online this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Student artists around the state took photographs of the art they assembled from various recycled components and submitted them online to a virtual gallery<\/a>. Winners were selected by online voting. Seventy artists participated and 350 votes were cast.
\u201cWe had a large number of student artists participate, even with the pandemic disruption, and the quality of their work was outstanding,\u201d Environment Secretary Ben Grumbles said. \u201cMaryland\u2019s youthful artists inspire us all to reduce, reuse, recycle, and rethink waste so we can keep protecting the environment and fighting climate change.\u201d
Johnson\u2019s entry, titled \u201cSalvarnos\u201d (Spanish for \u201csave us\u201d), depicts a blue throated macaw and was crafted from discarded cans, PVC pipe, and chicken wire frame previously used in old projects. ![\"https:\/\/us.vocuspr.com\/Publish\/513966\/vcsPRAsset_513966_126215_40c94c70-5794-417a-83a5-341bda8a45a6_0.png\"](\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/09rz5IHHzhW1GpOvUW59QPb5yJDImmfACImvUS-N7KV-7zcwBeaibMCHoQL-lDj2Qo481b5pWaNUTNPu1c_C4Dpg-pD2QxqyjruLiFvvV7NlnpAM1resRCXy6bOuULJIv2nuqNjMaWMHl8CPvr4EjxrgIqfjXPNcI0MNIg=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/us.vocuspr.com\/Publish\/513966\/vcsPRAsset_513966_126215_40c94c70-5794-417a-83a5-341bda8a45a6_0.png\")
\u201cThere are many species of macaws that are critically endangered,\u201d Johnson wrote in her entry. \u201cI love these birds and never want them to go extinct.\u201d
Hart\u2019s entry, called \u201cWhere Some Sea Waste\u2026,\u201d is the figure of a crab crafted from an old set of camping utensils used by her family on trips and which she found in the bottom of a recycling container scheduled for pickup.<\/p> ![\"https:\/\/us.vocuspr.com\/Publish\/513966\/vcsPRAsset_513966_126216_bca8870a-d9a5-4e19-84da-d0ce224c5d99_0.png\"](\"https:\/\/ci4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/3PP0xjE46Lte-jjujgo7lySVX4505yYfFwGEQTDrjasrdbO7UZCee4cCJsodYQK136z-u9I4teDPejIHQFQVfzawTd-yH7bHSCkD_bsSYcRaSCa6aiHjEU1Ks_NLz9799rjv8Q86dci-qGUvW5DTiDSimYvKvHXqmvTc4w=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/us.vocuspr.com\/Publish\/513966\/vcsPRAsset_513966_126216_bca8870a-d9a5-4e19-84da-d0ce224c5d99_0.png\")
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\u201cAs I have gotten older, I have become more aware of polluted waters and dying animals. I hope to inspire others to recycle and be mindful of their environmental impact,\u201d Hart wrote.
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