{"id":298116,"date":"2019-04-24T06:06:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T20:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=298116"},"modified":"2019-04-24T06:06:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T20:06:57","slug":"3-gca-students-win-in-bridge-capital-art-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/3-gca-students-win-in-bridge-capital-art-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"3 GCA students win in Bridge Capital art contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_298117\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-298117\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GCA-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GCA-pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"size-full wp-image-298117\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-298117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Christian Academy\u2019s Bridge Capital Annual Art Contest winners have their picture taken at the school\u2019s Raymond S. Kinsella Library.<br \/>(CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Three Grace Christian Academy students won big cash prizes at this year\u2019s Bridge Capital LLC art contest.<\/p>\n<p>Two GCA students won in the ages 11-and-under category. First place went to 5th grader Alyssa Kim, who won $750, while 4th grader Alvin Han won second place and a $500 cash prize.<\/p>\n<p>In the student category, Cheng Si Conrad Bao, a 9th grade student at GCA, won second place with a $1,000 cash prize.<\/p>\n<p>The winners were announced during the first day of the Flame Tree Arts Festival last April 12, 2019. <\/p>\n<p>Kim\u2019s entry, called \u201cParadise,\u201d is a painting of a colorful parrot and a beautiful Bird of Paradise flower. Hans did a very detailed \u201cLegend of Saipan\u201d painting inside a turtle image. Bao submitted his project in Environmental Science under Geri Rodgers titled \u201cDancing Lady\u201d using recycled materials such as paper and plastic trash bag for the ballerina\u2019s tutu.<\/p>\n<p>This was the Bridge Capital\u2019s ninth year of the art competition, which is open to all ages in different categories.  <\/p>\n<p>Out of the over 340 entries this year, over 100 were from GCA students, especially from Kindergarten to elementary for ages 11-and-under category, whose artwork were done during art classes under Esther Manzano. <\/p>\n<p>Bridge Capital LLC chief executive officer John Baldwin said that the goal of the annual competition is to give artists a chance to show their work, show their talent and to reward them for having the courage to produce works of art. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Grace Christian Academy students won big cash prizes at this year\u2019s Bridge Capital LLC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":298117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2943],"class_list":["post-298116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-bridge-capital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}