{"id":631963,"date":"2026-05-09T01:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T01:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/631963\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T01:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T01:20:09","slug":"utica-photographer-competes-for-25k-in-national-art-contest-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/631963\/","title":{"rendered":"Utica Photographer Competes for $25K in National Art Contest | Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Utica Photographer Competes for $25K in National Art Contest\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69fe51b0004b6.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>UTICA, N.Y. &#8212; A Utica photographer is competing in a national art contest that could help support local youth and veterans programs.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Lazore was accepted into &#8220;Johnny Depp Presents: The People&#8217;s Artist,&#8221; where $25,000 is at stake.<\/p>\n<p>Lazore is asking for votes to help him win.<\/p>\n<p>If he wins, he plans to upgrade his equipment and support Utica Royalties and the Utica Center for Development.<\/p>\n<p>Voting is open until May 14.<\/p>\n<p>Lazore could also have his work featured in an exhibit in Los Angeles and in a magazine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peoplesartist.org\/2026\/brian-shannon-lazore?fbclid=IwY2xjawRrLulleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFHYjNEOGJiSGJrZEE2dnQyc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHjdbU0KVjWXbX45D5No_umM6gE59wT1PRNuX7VMqBS2Z9iRc9H9-SubjjJxu_aem_ywaxYoF09Jf4ce6uZyM48g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here to vote.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UTICA, N.Y. &#8212; A Utica photographer is competing in a national art contest that could help support local&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88,273126,5053,157617],"class_list":["post-631963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-national-competition","tag-photographer","tag-utica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}