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The 52nd annual Otero Arts Festival is set for April 1-3 at McDivitt Center on the Otero Junior College campus. The Otero Arts Festival is sponsored each year by Otero Junior College, Department of the Arts. For fifty-two years, it has been open to all students, grades seven through twelve. The Festival provides incentive and recognition in the expression of the arts in the Arkansas Valley and South-Eastern Colorado.
All categories of art are accepted in the contest including: painting, graphics, crafts, pottery, sculptures, and photographs. Art entries will be accepted March 28th from 1:00 - 5:00 pm in the McDivitt Center Gym. In addition, essays, short stories, and poetry entries are being accepted for the creative writing division of the contest. Creative writing entries are being accepted via mail at Otero Arts Festival Creative Writing, 1802 Colorado Avenue, La Junta, CO 81050 or by bringing your entries to Humanities Center Room 105 by 5pm on Friday, March 7. There are ribbons for each of the grades in categories of traditional studio art media as well as graphic design, photography and textile. Judging takes place in McDivitt Hall gymnasium on March 29th. The exhibit opens to the public April 1, 2, & 3 from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm and 6:30-8:00 pm.
Senior students are invited to display their portfolios in competition for scholarships to colleges such as Adams State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Trinidad State Junior College and of course Otero Junior College. We particularly want to make you aware that the Otero Junior College scholarships are the most valuable of all that are offered to entrants of senior portfolios in writing and art. Senior art and writing contest scholarship entry deadline dates are:
- Senior writing portfolio entries are due Friday March 7, by 5:00 pm in Humanities Center Room 105.
- Senior art portfolio letter of intent to reserve a space, Friday March 14, by 5:00 pm in Humanities Center Room 105.
[ Contact Person: Debbie Phillips ]
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- March 7, 2008
—Creative Writing Entries Due by 5pm
Humanities Center Room 105
- March 14, 2008
—Senior Portfolio letters of Intent Due by 5pm
Humanities Center Room 105
- March 28, 2008
—Art Entries 1-5pm
McDivitt Center Gym
- March 29, 2008
—Judging 9am, Closed to Public
- April 1,2,3, 2008
—Public Viewing
8:00 am - 3:00 pm
& 6:30 - 8:00 pm
- April 3, 2008
—Awards Ceremony & removal
6:30 - 8:00 pm
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Robert Hill to Judge 2008 Otero Arts Festival Creative Writing
Returning for the second year to judge the creative writing entries will be novelist and author, Robert Hill. Currently living in LaVeta, Robert Hill was born and raised in south-central Ohio. After serving in the Air Force, Hill attended the University of Northern Colorado (Colorado State College). Hill owned his own businesses for many years until he began writing fulltime in 1993. The Foundlings was Hill’s first published novel. Hill hosts numerous book signing events throughout Colorado at Border's Books, Barnes & Noble Booksellers, independent bookstores, various libraries and the annual “Art in Park” in LaVeta, where he currently lives.
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