{"id":163593,"date":"2026-06-18T14:40:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=163593"},"modified":"2026-06-18T14:40:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:40:49","slug":"2026-youth-art-contest-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/2026-youth-art-contest-winners-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Youth Art Contest Winners Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks\u2019 Visitor Education Center (VEC)<\/strong> received artwork from approximately 1,150 students across <strong>Mississippi<\/strong> for the <strong>2026 Youth Art Contest<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations to the first-place winners, <strong>Mack Hutson<\/strong>, <strong>Willow Kinkead<\/strong>, <strong>Wesley Clark,<\/strong> and <strong>Charlsie Johnson<\/strong>! The artwork of the top finishers is available for viewing at\u00a0Annual Youth Art Contest | Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks. The contest was sponsored by the <strong>Mississippi Wildlife, Fisheries, Parks, Marine Foundation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The VEC is part of <strong>MDWFP\u2019s Bob Tyler Fish Hatchery<\/strong>, located in <strong>Enid<\/strong> at Exit 233 off I-55. The VEC features a native habitat area, a 10,000-gallon aquarium, interactive exhibits, displays, artifacts, gift shop, and a pond for special events. All these elements serve as entertaining and engaging learning experiences for all visitors!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The mission of the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks is to conserve and enhance Mississippi\u2019s wildlife, fisheries, and parks; provide quality outdoor recreation and engage the public in natural resource conservation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks\u2019 Visitor Education Center (VEC) received artwork from approximately 1,150 students<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":163594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17316],"tags":[35160,35164,21844,35161,28856,35166,5,35163,35162],"class_list":["post-163593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mississippi","tag-2026-youth-art-contest","tag-charlsie-johnson","tag-enid","tag-mack-hutson","tag-mdwfp","tag-mdwfps-bob-tyler-fish-hatchery","tag-mississippi","tag-wesley-clark","tag-willow-kinkead"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/mdwflogo.jpg?fit=200%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163595,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163593\/revisions\/163595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}