Landis Homes, a retirement community located in Lititz, recently announced that Noelle Stringer of Coatesville has received the 2021 Art Student Scholarship Award. Her artwork was selected by the resident art committee to hang at the facility. Noelle's winning piece depicts a colorful photograph of a blue jay's feather.
"I'm absolutely honored to have Landis Homes choose my artwork, especially this particular piece," said Noelle, a 2021 graduate of Lancaster Mennonite School (LMS). "I took this photograph while walking around the LMS campus for my photography class. I had been looking for something beautiful to take pictures of, but was coming up against a creative wall, when I saw this feather lying in the dirt. I had been searching for something awe-inspiring and grand to photograph, but in seeing this singular blue feather, I was reminded how you can find beauty in even the smallest of things."
Noelle plans to attend the College of the Atlantic to study human ecology. "I will definitely still be taking as many art classes as I can fit into my schedule," she added.
Each year since 1995, Landis Homes has selected a piece of artwork from the LMS Spring Fine Arts Festival to become part of a permanent art collection on the retirement community's campus. In return for the artwork, Landis Homes contributes to the LMS art department and to the student to support his or her future education.
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