EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)–Students at the El Paso Independent School District are getting the chance to showcase their creativity this holiday season.<\/p>\n
This year marks the 35th Annual Holiday Card Contest. Students across the district work on holiday cards and submit them for a chance to be honored. The categories include elementary, middle and high school.<\/p>\n
ABC-7 spoke with this year\u2019s winner in the high school category. El Paso High School sophomore Rose Macias came in first place after depicting El Paso\u2019s rich Chicano culture.<\/p>\n
Her artwork, titled “Frosty 915,\u201d shows a lowrider under the Spaghetti Bowl in El Paso, along with a Santa in a winter wonderland.<\/p>\n
Rose said she was excited to find out she had been selected.<\/p>\n
“I won, and I was like, ‘Oh, no way. Really?’ Like, I started shaking and getting all nervous,” she explained.<\/p>\n
The moment also made her art teacher, Elijah Escobar, very proud.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ve had, you know, some second and third places, but this year Rose was able to come in first place for me, so it’s a huge honor and, like, finally,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He was thrilled that one of his students was selected.<\/p>\n
“It’s just a dream come true. I was shocked, I was told during testing. So when I got the notification, I had to be really quiet and just like, you know, hold it in. But, super happy,” he said.<\/p>\n
The winners in the other categories include Dayana Echavarria from Navarrete Middle School and Orlando Quinonez III from Tinajero PK\u20138 School.<\/p>\n
Their artwork will be featured throughout EPISD\u2019s official holiday greetings. They will also displayed at the Fine Arts Gallery through January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)–Students at the El Paso Independent School District are getting the chance to showcase their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-99968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99968","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=99968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}