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Two Gainesville teenagers earn top artistic awards
Gainesville High School and Riverside Military Academy students compete in national contest
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Riverside Military Academy Cadet James Graham used acrylic paints in his piece titled “Destroyer.” He won an honorable mention for it in the 2013 National Young Marine Artist Search Competition.
The 2013 National Young Marine Artist Search Competition awards ceremony may have been in San Diego, Calif., but its focus was on Northeast Georgia. All four placing competitors in the American Society of Marine Artists’s biggest competition were from Georgia, including two from Gainesville high schools. Charles Calkins won the top prize with his copper sculpture“Red Snapper in Motion.”