Louisville high school senior wins Kentucky Derby Museum's annual art competition

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A Ballard High School senior won the grand prize in the Kentucky Derby Museum's 40th annual art competition.

Savanah Webb created the piece called "My Old Kentucky Home," showcasing a Derby-winning moment to clinch the competition's top prize. She will receive a Spring Race Day Experience prize package sponsored by Churchill Downs.

Her school's art department will also be awarded $500 for art supplies.

Savannah said she was inspired by the Kentucky roses, which she feels is a staple of the Kentucky Derby. But she hasn't been to the Derby before.

"It's just bits and pieces of what I've experienced from other people and I feel like that emphasizes what it means to be Kentucky — just the bits and pieces that everyone experiences and mixed it all together," she said Tuesday.

Savanah's winning artwork will be framed and displayed at the museum over the next year.

"Horsing Around With Art is our longest-running education program at the museum," Patrick Armstrong, president and CEO of Kentucky Derby Museum, said in a news release Tuesday. "This is our way, decade after decade, of supporting the arts in local schools with a focus on the Kentucky Derby. It speaks volumes that this program has now continued 40 years as generations have participated and become part of museum history."

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