{"id":8803,"date":"2018-03-18T20:32:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T00:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=8803"},"modified":"2018-06-20T12:39:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T16:39:47","slug":"fourth-grade-animal-lover-and-tree-hugger-wins-earth-day-artwork-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=8803","title":{"rendered":"Fourth-grade Animal-lover and Tree-hugger Wins Earth Day Artwork Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Alexa Lopez, a fourth-grade student at Lyles-Crouch Elementary School is a life-long vegetarian, litter fanatic, animal-lover and tree-hugger. She also genuinely believes that her actions can help save the planet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8806\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local-Action-Global-Impact-Earth-Day-Artwork-260x177.png\" alt=\"Local Action, Global Impact Earth Day Artwork\" width=\"555\" height=\"352\" \/>Last week, Alexa was named the winner of the City of Alexandria\u2019s Earth Day artwork contest for her poster, which combined her love of animals with her other love, art, to represent the theme \u201c<em>Local Action, Global Impact.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First I thought Virginia and then trees, since that\u2019s a big part of the planet, and then the earth. So, I did Virginia, the tree and then the earth kind of inside of the tree. I really like drawing and I really like trying to save the earth,\u201d said Alexa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Her artwork demonstrates love for our city, state and world, and inspires us to take care of our environment,\u201d said\u00a0<em>Earth Day Planning Committee Member and Director\u00a0of UpCycle Creative Reuse Center Kelley Organek.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The contest is an annual initiative of the City of Alexandria where all Alexandria students in grades K-12 are invited to design artwork to help publicize the city\u2019s Earth Day celebration. Alexa\u2019s artwork was selected from more than 300 submissions. It will be printed on Earth Day t-shirts, reusable shopping bags, posters and fliers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8815\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2404-260x260.jpg\" alt=\"Alexa Lopez and Squirrel\" width=\"260\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2404-260x260.jpg 260w, http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2404-100x100.jpg 100w, http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2404.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Alexa\u2019s message for the community is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you see litter or something pick it up and throw it away and you yourself shouldn\u2019t litter. And, just keep the earth clean. It\u2019s not the animals\u2019 fault and they just die because of what humans do to the earth, because of pollution and littering and things,&#8221;\u00a0said Alexa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alexa has been invited to attend the Proclamation Reading on Tuesday, April 10, at City Hall in City Council Chambers at 7 p.m. The winning artwork, along with the works of the other finalists, will be displayed at city hall from April 16-27 and at the\u00a0Earth Day event on April 28.<\/p>\n<p>Save the date for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexandriava.gov\/EarthDay\">Alexandria&#8217;s Earth Day celebration<\/a> on Saturday, April 28 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Lenny Harris Memorial Fields at Braddock Park, 1005 Mt. Vernon Ave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Alexa Lopez, whose artwork was selected from more than 300 submissions for its representation of this year\u2019s theme, \u201cLocal Action, Global Impact\u201d in the City of Alexandria&#8217;s  annual Earth Day artwork contest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,76,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acps","category-highlights","category-lyles-crouch"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 10:19:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8803"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8876,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8803\/revisions\/8876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}