Northport Middle Schooler Wins Arts Alive Photo Contest
By Michael Ganci – Syntax NY
Northport Middle School eighth-grader Kathryn Fligstein was named the first place winner of the grades 6-8 category for the Arts Alive Long Island 2015 Poster Contest sponsored by the Long Island Arts Alliance. Entrants drew images that best represented their home of Long Island.
Fligstein was one of just four that received first place honors out of 165 entries, and she was recently honored for her achievement at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts. Her winning poster will be part of the 2015 Arts Alive LI Commemorative Poster Series and will be on exhibit at the Long Island Children’s Museum throughout the month of October.
“It is our hope that many of our region’s talented student artists will view this as an opportunity to participate in Arts Month and be featured in their first museum exhibition,” said Theresa Statz-Smith, the executive director of Long Island Arts Alliance.
Arts Alive LI 2015 is presented by the Long Island Arts Alliance with additional support from MSC Direct, Bloomingdale’s and by a grant awarded to the Long Island Arts Alliance by New York State’s Empire State Development and the I ♥ NY Division of Tourism under Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Regional Economic Development Council Initiative.