Design Contest Celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Local Students Design "I Have A Dream" T-Shirts

Celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with, A Century of Black Life, History and Culture : Keeping Those Dreams Alive, on display at Piedmont Arts through January 24, 2015.

This exhibit features T-shirt designs by local students that memorialize Dr. King and his important contribution to the struggle for civil rights in America.

Each year the Martin Luther King Planning Council of Martinsville-Henry County hosts this T-shirt design contest. All students in MHC are invited to enter a design and the winning designs are printed on shirts and sold as a fundraiser for the Council’s annual County-Wide Teach-Ins, held in local schools each Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (January 19).

This year’s winners are:

Traven Gilley – 5th Grade, Albert Harris Elementary

Nicholas Buck – 5th Grade, Albert Harris Elementary

Naijuan Dudley – 7th Grade, Martinsville Middle School

This marks the first year that there was a three-way tie between contest winners. The three winning designs were combined to create a collage, which will be printed on shirts.

T-Shirts
Shirts are available in the following sizes and colors:

Sizes
Child S ­– XL          $10
Adult XL                $10
Adult 2XL – 5XL    $12

Colors
White
Gold
Irish Green
Carolina Blue
Ash

To purchase a shirt, call Deb Norton at 276.224.6080.

Piedmont Arts Hours:

Monday – Friday:    10 am – 5 pm

Saturday:                10 am – 3 pm

Admission Free

The three winning designs can be seen in the center row. From left to right are designs by Traven Gilley, Nicholas Buck and Naijuan Dudley. The fourth image is the collage created by combining the students' designs.