LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION congratulating Altmar-Parish-Williamstown High
School art students on winning the Most Creative Fashion Design Award at
the 2012 Olympics of the Visual Arts

WHEREAS, This Legislative Body is justly proud to commend and pay trib-
ute to young people who, through achieving outstanding success in educa-
tional competition, inspire and bring pride to themselves, their fami-
lies, their school and their community; and
WHEREAS, Attendant to such concern, and fully in accord with its long-
standing tradition, this Legislative Body is truly pleased to congratu-
late Altmar-Parish-Williamstown High School art students in Cristina
O'Hara's classes on winning the Most Creative Fashion Design Award at
the 30th Annual Olympics of the Visual Arts held in Saratoga Springs,
New York on Wednesday, May 2, 2012; and
WHEREAS, Olympics of the Visual Arts is an extracurricular school
program sponsored by the New York State Art Teachers Association for
students across New York State; it was established to show that creati-
vity and creative problem solving in the visual arts is vital to a full
and enriched life; and
WHEREAS, The Olympics of the Visual Arts presents a series of problems
which require utilizing historical references, brainstorming, problem
solving and creative solutions; and
WHEREAS, The competition takes two forms of problem solving; one is
long term and requires research, planning and creativity that is
completed prior to the competition; the other is a short-term, spontane-
ous solution and is done on-site during the competition; this year,
there were eight long-term categories all connected by a common theme:
the History of Art; and
WHEREAS, Categories for this year's competition, included architec-
ture, photography, fashion design, sculpture, painting, drawing, illus-
tration, and game design; and
WHEREAS, The A-P-W art students selected fashion design as their long-
term project; the competition required students to research an art move-
ment from history and translate it into a wearable fashion statement
made from paper products; and
WHEREAS, The Altmar-Parish-Williamstown High School students, compet-
ing against hundreds of students from around the State and drawing
inspiration from the environmental art and recycling art movements,
designed a mermaid-style dress created from papier-mache newspaper and
street maps; and
WHEREAS, The A-P-W team members included Maggie Allardice, Kayla Guin-
don, Colin VanBuren, Hunter Comstock, Morgan Sobotka, Chelsea Cooper,
Taylor Fletcher and Jenna Cramer, all of whom are to be commended for
their accomplishment; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to
congratulate the Altmar-Parish-Williamstown High School art students on
winning the Most Creative Fashion Design Award at the 2012 Olympics of
the Visual Arts; and be it further
RESOLVED, That copies of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be tran-
smitted to Maggie Allardice, Kayla Guindon, Colin VanBuren, Hunter
Comstock, Morgan Sobotka, Chelsea Cooper, Taylor Fletcher and Jenna
Cramer, and to their art teacher Cristina O'Hara.