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-_ 'ti ~ 3i <br />Cooperative (Mountain Iron}, Metro <br />Service Cooperative (the seven-county <br />Twin Cities area}, Lakes Country Service <br />Cooperative (Fergus Falls}, Resource <br />Training and SoIuHons (St. Cloud) and <br />SW/SC Service Cooperative (Marshall}. <br />The 2009 Water is Life Art Contest <br />semi-finalists' and scholarship winners` <br />artwork will be on display at several <br />venues, including the State Capitol, <br />until May ZO10. For an exhibit schedule, <br />go to www.freshwater.org. This year, for <br />the first time, the contest included video <br />entries. To view the videos, go to the <br />Freshwater Society's page on YouTube. <br />The top six entries and the artists' <br />statements were: <br />1 BRADLEY JOHNSON - In the background, <br />i a well and clean water are shown in color. <br />These represent hope for the child, which <br />drives his existence. He is young, and at some <br />point in life he may be able to leave his pov- <br />erty stricken neighborhood and attain the <br />fresh water far off in the distance. In Africa, a <br />well costs as little as $200 and can supply an <br />entire community. <br />QUANZAKARI DECHIARA-CRILLION - <br />DNA symbolizes life in that it is essential <br />to the blueprints for all forms of life com- <br />pressed into an extremely small and elegant <br />shape. Because all life depends on water, <br />fresh water is possibly our most important <br />resource. <br />ALIXANDRA BIWER -The hand repre- <br />. Bents our ability as humans to nourish or <br />starve all life on earth. We are the protectors <br />or the destroyers, by choice, yet many of us <br />do not acknowledge the power our daily <br />decisions have on au~ atmosphere: The gold- <br />fish represents all animals on earth, including <br />ourselves. It defines vulnerability and our <br />fragile existence. The glass symbolizes our <br />ecosystem, one slip of the human hand and it <br />could all vanish. <br />SARAH OLSON - If we, as humans, can <br />take something as simple and common as <br />a soda can and turn it into a piece of art, we <br />could do much more to help save the fresh <br />waters of the world, and more or less save <br />fife, because water is life, and by polluting <br />waters with pop cans Like these in the piece is <br />polluting our very own livelihood. So please, <br />reflect upon what you have done for this <br />earth`s resources lately, and make sure you <br />see this piece as a shining droplet of hope <br />rath"er than a falling tear. <br />MEGHAN REISTAD - I created a vessel <br />that represents the world, ultimately the <br />source of water. I then crafted a small plate. <br />It is dry and cracked, but where water is <br />pouring from the world there stands a small <br />flower, a sign of life. This piece of work dem- <br />onstrates the relation between water and the <br />value of it to the Flower. It explains how water <br />brings life to creations that may otherwise be <br />lacking the essentials to live. <br />LUKE tUtUYSKENS -The video incorpo- <br />rates aseries ofshots varying from a bliz- <br />zard to frigid snow to melting ice to running <br />streams and standing. pools. These shots <br />highlight not on{y the versatility of water, <br />butalso its prevalence in the world around <br />us by finding water in places where it is not <br />usually thought of. The message in this video <br />is how when winter turns to spring and water <br />melts and is released from its frozen state, the <br />water brings the life of spring. <br /> <br />ly Spieler, artistic director, In the Heart of the Feast Puppet and <br />;Theatre, s^~as ti~rnate speaker for the a~s~ards ceremony. <br />