Silver Spring artist Fernando Santiago's entry has been declared the winner in the 2023 Wheaton Arts Parade & Festival poster contest. His design will now be the official poster for this year's event, and also appear on the official t-shirt. Santiago will receive a $500 award from the Wheaton IHOP. Restaurant owner William Moore will also donate $100 for art supplies in Santiago's name to Glenallen Elementary School.
The poster design is greatly enhanced by featuring an apartment building with architecture you might see driving around the Wheaton area. It looks very reminiscent of the garden apartment buildings at Glenmont Forest.
"My family loves parades," Santiago said in a statement yesterday. "We are known to travel long distances to see them. In 2019, we were at the Wheaton Arts Parade and it was amazing. The floats, the artists and the overwhelming love of art struck a chord in me. It was after the 2019 arts parade that I decided to get back into art. I had not made art since graduating from my art high school in Puerto Rico in 1996, but watching all those artists marching in the arts parade inspired me to ask ‘If not now, when?’ This is the phrase I chose to portray in my submission to the poster competition. In it, I show regular people taking a chance to bring beauty to the world they inhabit.”
The theme of this year's parade will be "Art to Action." Sponsors include Greenhill and Westfield Wheaton Plaza mall. The event will take place Sunday, October 15 from from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM in the Wheaton Triangle, and on the Marian Fryer Plaza, located adjacent to the bus loop at the Wheaton Metro Station. See the official event website for complete information.
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