{"id":238179,"date":"2026-04-07T03:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/238179\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T03:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:51:11","slug":"banner-roby-named-emerging-artist-at-cottonwood-art-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/238179\/","title":{"rendered":"Banner Roby named &#8216;Emerging Artist&#8217; at Cottonwood Art Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/lakehighlands.advocatemag.com\/?attachment_id=125688\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-125688 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125688\" class=\"size-large wp-image-125688\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Banner-Roby-Best-in-Show-1024x720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"720\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-125688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banner Roby, Best in Show, with Cottonwood officials<\/p>\n<p>Lake Highlands High School senior Banner Roby earned \u201cBest of Show\u201d accolades in the Cottonwood Art Festival\u2019s recent <a href=\"https:\/\/cottonwoodartfestival.com\/emergingartist\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emerging Artist<\/a> exhibit. Her entry will hang all month in the Charles W. Eisemann Center for Performing Arts alongside works by selected other talented Richardson ISD high school students.<\/p>\n<p>The Emerging Artist Program was created to recognize the talent of young local artists and offer them opportunities to participate in the Cottonwood Art Festival. The students may display and sell their work at the festival as they interact with commercially successful artists from across the state. They may also attend professional development workshops and win additional awards and scholarships.<\/p>\n<p>Roby is the daughter of Leslie and <a href=\"https:\/\/lakehighlands.advocatemag.com\/2025\/06\/02\/daniel-roby\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Roby<\/a>, both graduates of LHHS.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/cottonwoodartfestival.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cottonwood Art Festival<\/a> was founded in 1969 and has become one of the most respected and enjoyable art festivals in the country, drawing 35,000 people. Hosted by the City of Richardson on the first weekend of May and October, the event is held at Cottonwood Park, 1321 W. Beltline Road. Admission is free.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lakehighlands.advocatemag.com\/?attachment_id=125689\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-125689 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125689\" class=\"wp-image-125689 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Banner-Roby-with-her-artwork-1024x889.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"889\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-125689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banner Roby with her artwork\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lakehighlands.advocatemag.com\/?attachment_id=125690\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-125690 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125690\" class=\"size-large wp-image-125690\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Banner-Roby-with-her-family-1024x652.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"652\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-125690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banner Roby with her family<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Banner Roby, Best in Show, with Cottonwood officials Lake Highlands High School senior Banner Roby earned \u201cBest of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-238179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}