Paige Lysaght, a graduate of Toledo Notre Dame Academy, won an honorable mention award in the national Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) art contest.
The CCHD Multi-Media Youth Arts Contest is open to all young people in grades 7-12 attending Catholic parishes or Catholic schools. The theme for the 2010 contest was “This is the Real World – Poverty USA.”
Paige Lysaght, second from right, received an honorable mention award from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development for her art that illustrated the theme, “This is the Real World — Poverty USA.” Miss Lysaght received at $50 award from Bishop Leonard P. Blair and donated another $50 to the Padua Outreach Center in Toledo, represented by Oscar Shaheer and Tiffin Franciscan Sister Ginny Welsh. (Chronicle photo by Angela Kessler)
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As part of a class assignment, Miss Lysaght created a reduction print that illustrated a social issue. She chose to focus on childhood poverty and the hand in her art symbolizes everyone having a chance to reach their potential, she said.
Miss Lysaght was awarded $50 for herself and another $50 for the charity of her choice. She chose to donate to the Padua Outreach Center, a ministry of Toledo St. Martin de Porres.
The awards were presented in August by Bishop Leonard P. Blair at the Catholic Center. Miss Lysaght’s mother, Joan Lysaght, art teacher, Susan Kozal, and representatives from the Padua Center, Tiffin Franciscan Sister Ginny Welsh and Oscar Shaheer, were also at the presentation.
The CCHD art contest begins with a local competition. Each diocese in the United States may send one entry per category to the national contest. Each entry was to be the original work of the student or team of students submitting the artwork and could not contain copyrighted material.
Entries were submitted in one of two categories: seventh- through ninth-grade and 10th- to 12th-grade, and were to reflect audio-visual, literature or visual arts.
The National CCHD office selected an overall grand prize winner and second, third and honorable mention for each age category.
The 2010 winners include:
• Grand prize: “Family of Promise” video, St. John Vianney parish, Diocese of Honolulu
• Second place (7-9): “A Shovel of Justice” poster, St. Andrew Catholic School, Diocese of Orlando
• Second place (10-12): “Self-Reliance” drawing, St. Xavier High School, Archdiocese of Louisville
• Third place (7-9): “Table Scraps” story, St. Mary’s Institute, Diocese of Albany
• Third place (10-12): “Trapped by Poverty” drawing, Father Ryan High School, Diocese of Nashville
• Honorable mention (7-9): “Second Chance” poem, Academy of the Holy Names, Diocese of St. Petersburg
• Honorable mention (10-12): “End Poverty” painting, Notre Dame Academy, Diocese of Toledo
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