HAW RIVER, NC (WGHP) — Some say the third time is the charm. But for Southeast Alamance High School’s Misheel Tamir, it was her first time entering a congressional art competition that brought her national recognition. A competition she almost didn’t enter when her sister told her about it.
“I didn’t really think much of it because I was like that sounds really scary, I don’t really want to join it,” she says. “But then my art teacher Mrs. Lampson, my art teacher, was telling me about the Congressional Art competition, and she said you should join it. So, I decided to make an artwork for it.”
This year’s theme “America 250,” encouraged student artists to honor our country’s founding principles and the spirit of liberty. This is the piece Misheel created. She calls it “Growing Liberty.”…