presentations this morning and the from the third place winner was mary porter who is located at model drugs to go down and see that and then the second place winner was tony housman and tony's piece is your goodies you can go check out carolyn's wonderful piece for tool of art bloom you know like i was so excited to have you make the announcement i got a little bit ahead of myself i think that we probably ought to explain for the folks that are watching what what is this that they just won year in february and then the remaining twenty finalists have the opportunity to have their artwork displayed downtown highland at different merchants and then to people of holland and our tourists are able to vote and the people's choice award so that is exactly what laura was just explaining happened this morning so it's very exciting and how many years have we been with you we been doing the community engagement piece of this well this is the third year we had a group of artists approach the arts council saying how do we how can we get more engaged as artists in the tulip time poster process so we put together a proposition for tulip time and it was really were well received by the board and by by the leadership of tulip time and what it was was we put a call to artists throughout the entire region that actually goes throughout the state asking artists to come up with a wonderful design and we then we picked three really prominent art people from the region to service jurors and from the hundred and fifty or so the commissions we get we picked twenty or the  the jurors picked twenty pieces and then told time board and staff pick the one two of the time poster from those twenty but then we want to award those those other nineteen people for having got caught all the way you know all the way to that final cut so we we wanted to bring people downtown to really enjoy the downtown area so we asked our merchants to work with us by showing casing each individual piece and we then we put the ballot boxes in the store so it makes it makes for a really wonderful combination of commerce and heart and bulis i mean you get the foot traffic that just happens there and one reason for me a sub i am by a  it doesn't take much in the first place but really a brilliant combination of pulling that all together and it showcases the fabulous talent in our in our area we have wonderful artists and i'm really very very pleased that we get such a great response from them and they really now feel our the the tulip time festival is there and if it makes them more engaged it makes their families engaged because they're all out there rooting for them and voting for them so it's a really great way to showcase the talent in our area that is fantastic and we we definitely want to encourage all of the artists the entire community we also want to encourage our young artists i don't care you you've brought a piece that was that was produced this week this week my little boy thomas actually made this for me and thought it would be appropriate to give to very encouraging to all the arts in our community and we're very grateful for lighthouse group the arts council it's been very pleased to have them sponsor us as well so the other thing that i want to make sure you know is that we had three really fabulous jurors this year bivins dennis dennis foley and sarah harris from the nines gallery were our jurors this year so it was a tough decision to make and i'd like to really give a nod to them as well and then also to mary mary s thank you both for your leadership your corps nation of the many different individuals and artists that have been involved in this in the sponsorship of it and it just really adds that extra little special touch and i love how you commented the converse of long with the  another reason for people to really just kind of cruise around in holland and enjoy all of the art in the posters and everything that's out there is just great just one of those one more of those great activities where people can not only come down and enjoy the art but can get involved in