Moolenaar Welcomes Genesia Thompson to the Capitol

Congressman John Moolenaar welcomes Congressional Art Competition Winner, Genesia Thompson (center), and her father Cornelius Thompson (left), to the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. This picture is on the Speaker's Balcony on the West Front of the Capitol, facing the National Mall and the Washington Monument.

Today, Congressman John Moolenaar welcomed Genesia Thompson, the Congressional Art Competition Winner for Michigan's Fourth Congressional District to the Capitol. Genesia is a student at H.H. Dow High School and she was accompanied by her father, Cornelius Thompson.

Genesia won the Congressional Art Competition for the Fourth District with her winning watercolor painting, "October," named after Genesia's grandmother's month of birth. The painting features marigolds, the birth flower of October, and a bee. The painting will be on display in the Capitol for a year.

Congressman John Moolenaar congratulates Genesia Thompson on winning the Congressional Art Competition for Michigan's Fourth Congressional District during a presentation at the Midland Center for the Arts on May 2, 2017. Thompson's winning piece, "October," is in the center. It features marigolds and a bee.

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