Unknown Sitters Student Writing Contest Feature: « Lisa, Tomie, and Michael »
For HNOC’s 2024 Student Writing Contest, we invited students from across the country to create colorful identities for the mysterious subjects in the 26 portraits featured in our « Unknown Sitters » exhibition! After receiving hundreds of entries, HNOC chose three winners across three age categories.
Today, we are excited to feature « Lisa, Tomie, and Michael » by Quinn Powell, a 3rd grade student at Walker Elementary School, in McKinney, TX who is among three first place winners in our elementary school category. Quinn wrote this adorable short story in response to the portrait « Children at the piano, » painted between 1840 and 1850 by Charles Octavius Cole. Who can resist a Parrot named Carrot? Our panel of judges certainly couldn’t!
Read all of the winning entries: https://ow.ly/cTEx50SrW9C
Learn more about « Unknown Sitters »: https://ow.ly/cHcw50SrW9E
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Narrated by Kurt Owens, HNOC Interpreter
« Children at the piano, » between 1840–1850, oil painting by Charles Octavius Cole. HNOC, 1993.56
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