AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Reagan Outdoor Advertising today announced winners in the company’s Austin Art Boards competition, a first-of-its-kind juried visual arts contest in Central Texas that awards winners with billboard space to display their work.
Conducted in collaboration with the Austin Visual Arts Association, the competition received more than 100 entries from artists throughout the Central Texas area. Artwork from 10 winners will now be on display throughout the city for the next 1-2 years on billboards donated by Reagan Outdoor.
Winning entries in the Austin Art Boards competition include:
- Becky Joye – "Today Might Be Your Lucky Day"
- Carol Hayman – "Colca Hands"
- Chrys Grummert – "Untitled"
- Deborah Moss Willhite – "Dare to Dream"
- Donna Bland – "Cattle and Live Oaks with Austin Sunset"
- Jack King – "Fluid Intelligence"
- Jenny Meyer – "Hang Town"
- Jill Bedgood – "Baseball Code"
- Nancy Guevara – "Arriba Mi Gente"
- Will Russell – "Cowboy"
“This has been an exciting opportunity to bring together the extraordinary artistic talent across our community and put it on display for all of Austin to see and enjoy,” said Billy Reagan, president of Reagan Outdoor Advertising. “We congratulate the winners of our Art Boards competition, and look forward to gracing our billboards with their work throughout the city.”
In addition to the Reagan billboard displays, the work of all Austin Art Boards winners and honorable mentions will be on display at the Flatbed art gallery on East MLK Blvd. beginning this Sunday through Thursday, August 4. Reagan Outdoor also is hosting an invite-only reception on Saturday evening honoring the winners.
Video interviews with the winning artists in the 2011 Austin Art Boards competitions are available online at www.austinartboards.org.
About Reagan Outdoor Advertising
A family-owned company, Reagan Outdoor Advertising has been operating in Central Texas for more than two decades. The company empowers area businesses, organizations, and individuals to reach mass audiences and drive awareness for their brands and missions while using its reach to support worthy social causes. www.reaganoutdoor.com