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Yesterday, Congressman French Hill (AR-2) announced the three winners for this year’s Congressional Art Competition for Arkansas’s Second Congressional District. The winners are as follows:

First place: Ivy Cox of Little Rock (Episcopal Collegiate School)

Second place: Kylie Beaty of Vilonia (Vilonia High School)

Third place: Alex Stroud of Conway (Vilonia High School)

The first place piece will be hung in the tunnel between Cannon House Office Building and the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington D.C. for one year. Following the announcement, Congressman Hill released the below statement:

“I am very proud of all of the young artists that submitted entries into the competition for their creativity and willingness to participate. Being able to effectively express yourself through art is an exceptional and rare skill to have. I am truly impressed and inspired to see the level of talent of our central Arkansas students, and I look forward to being reminded of that every day as I walk past Ivy’s painting on my way to and from the U.S. Capitol.”

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