“Art for the Park was something we put out to the community to try and encourage people to share their creativity with their neighbours, in the interest in beautifying the park in civic pride.”
The three artists that had won the contest and the right to have their art showcased on the fence were Cassidy Guenther, Daelyn Biendarra and Quinn Goldberg.
Goldberg’s picture is titled Fox Mountain. She spoke about her inspiration on how she came up with the picture.
“I like drawing K-9’s on the mountains, so I thought drawing a K-9 on a big rock with the mountains in the background would make a lovely picture, so I decided to do that.”
Goldberg added that she loves drawing pictures and entered the contest for fun. When asked about her reaction when her picture got chosen, she didn’t have much to say, but had a big grin on her face.
Cassidy Guenther’s Art for the Park piece is titled Skateborder.png and she spoke about her photo and why she wanted to draw it.
“I was basically just inspired by the skateboard park itself and I love to skateboard myself, it’s just something I love. (Art’s) definitely always been one of my favourite things to do, I’ve been doing it for six years, and this is just an opportunity to do it more.”
Guenther added that it was cool to see her picture on the wall.
“It was really exciting. I’ve never quite had publicity like that before and I was really honoured and very happy to be picked as one of the winners.”
Guenther says that the next time the County has a contest like this, she will enter it.
Daelyn Biendarra’s Art for the Park picture is titled Dream View.
During the induction ceremony, Biendarra said that her picture was based off of somewhere that she would like to live in the future. She added that it was a dream view that she’s always wanted.
The County of Grande Prairie says it plans on having more art contests like this in the future, as they look to bring more improvements to the Clairmont Adventure Park.
