In 2019, Make A Scene Magazine, in partnership with Michael C Marketing, The City of Wasilla and Q 99.7, just to name a few, came together to continue “The Pass @ The Park”. Rebranded “Music in the Park” this great event will offer live music, vendors, prizes, and food trucks, all with free admission. While 95.5 isn’t here anymore, we hope to carry on the great tradition they, and The City of Wasilla, started. That included the Art Submission Contest, which we completed early last month. We had several entries and narrowed it down to 3 possibilities.
Thanks to you, the voters, we chose a winner with her beautiful painting of animals playing music in a park, with a mountain background scene. You can see our amazing posters hanging around Wasilla and Palmer, in Make A Scene Magazine, or on Facebook, thanks to this year’s winner Sara Squartsoff-Mckinley.
Sara is a lifelong Alaskan, born in Kodiak and raised in Port Lions, AK. Inspired by her grandfather, she has been painting most of her life and is fortunate to be able to paint full time with her business “Paint Nights with Sara”.
Paint Nights with Sara offers paint classes each week at her studio on the Parks highway across from SBS. The classes offer a step by step instruction, for all ages, on how to paint a wide variety of paintings, that change each night. Mountains, birds, flowers, and all the things Alaskans love fill the studio that can fill up to 30 people for corporate events and private parties. You can find her classes online at paintwithsara.com or on Facebook.
She wins $200 and will have her art displayed not only on our posters, but in the halls of our sponsors. Since, each sponsor gets a poster framed and autographed by all the bands that play in the 4 Friday night event at Wonderland Park, her art will be around town for years to come! Congratulations Sara, and thanks to everyone that participated in this year’s contest.
We hope to see all of you at Music in the Park, June 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th from 6 to 9 PM, at Wonderland Park.
Contributed by Michael Consalo
