2009 Decoy Festival Poster Competition

Congratulations to Kelley Nelson -- this year's poster competition winner!

This year marks the Twenty-Second Annual Core Sound Decoy Festival and we need Decoy Festival poster entries for our annual poster competition.  The poster to the left is last year's winning entry by Kelley Nelson.  The Decoy Festival Poster Contest, in its ninth year, is sponsored by the Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild. The competition gives local artists the opportunity to submit the entry used on Decoy Festival posters, advertising flyers, and apparel.  A cash prize of $250.00 is awarded to the winning artist.   The featured carver for 2009 is Dan Robinson of Ocracoke, NC, and the decoy is a Snow Goose.  The winning poster is chosen by secret ballot in which the general members of the Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild who attend the regularly scheduled meeting in April vote on their favorite entry.

The rules and an entry form are available by download here or you may pick up an entry packet at the "H. Curt Salter" Guild Building on Harkers Island Road.

This year's poster competition is now closed.  We look forward to your entries next year!

New Poster Competition Chairman

We have a new Decoy Festival Poster Competition chairman this year, Amie Talton of Stella.  You may know Amie as our newsletter editor and be familiar with her outstanding work producing our quarterly newsletter publication.

We want to acknowledge former Poster Compeition chairman, Sue Fulcher, with a very special thank you all the years of her hard work with this contest!  This year Sue handed the reins of the Poster Competition over to Amie. The Decoy Festival Poster is a very important part of our annual Decoy Festival and we greatly appreciate Amie taking this on for the Guild.