Freshman’s craftsmanship is up for $10,000 scholarship
You can help her get it with your online votes.
Janel Shoun-Smith | 615.966.7078 |
Hannah West, a freshman corporate management business major from Bagdad, Kentucky, is competing for a $10,000 scholarship in the Create-A-Greeting-Card Scholarship Contest hosted by The Gallery Collection, and you can help her get there!
West is an expert in the art of quilling, sculpted artwork made with paper strips, and she submitted a bright spring design of flowers and butterflies to compete in The Gallery Collection’s contest. Anyone can vote once per day now through April 10 at woobox.com.
If she wins, she will receive a $10,000 college scholarship and Lipscomb would receive a $1,000 donation.
Hannah West with her quilling piece entered for the contest.
The Gallery Collection is an online and mail order publisher of personalized Christmas, holiday and everyday greeting cards. 2020 is the 13th year they have held the Create-A-Greeting-Card Contest.
West became interested in paper art at the age of 10 while helping her older brother with a homework assignment involving origami cranes. Seeing her interest in paper art, West’s mother introduced her to quilling, the art of rolling narrow strips of paper into various shapes.
After a few years of dabbling at home, she began buying pre-cut paper strips, and opened her online business, iQuill Studio to sell custom designs and commissioned pieces.
“I have created numerous custom orders for wedding and baby gifts, three-dimensional miniature versions of pets, sports team logos and monogrammed canvases,” West said.
West created the piece that is currently competing for The Gallery Collection scholarship as a tribute gift to her father while he was undergoing cancer treatment in 2019. Her father is now a cancer survivor, and West entitled the piece “Life”.