Hope & Spirit: What my parents told me about deportations and life in Siberia
Below is a slideshow of submissions to the Hope & Spirit juried children's art exhibition. Five 1st-Place winners, ten 2nd-Place winners and 10 Honorable Mention recipients were announced at the Exhibit opening, Saturday June 18, 2011 at the Balzekas Museum in Chicago. Thank you to all 52 talented young people from the United States and Canada who submitted 54 works of art! Thank you, as well, to judges Laima Apanavičienė, Danas Lapkus, and Magdalėna Birutė Stankūnas as well as to exhibit organizer Dr. Audrius Plioplys who generously underwrote the prizes. (Click here to go to the Hope & Spirit page on the Museum's website)