PITTSBURGH, April 6 (UPI) -- Andy Warhol turned a can of tomato soup into highly regarded pop art but it remains to be seen whether U.S. student artists do the same for ketchup.
Pittsburgh-based H.J. Heinz Co. announced Thursday the 12 winners of its "Ketchup Creativity" contest whose artistic endeavors will grace more than 200 million single-serve ketchup packets across the nation.
More than 15,000 students entered the contest, Heinz said in a news release, with one winner selected in grades 1-12. The winners' schools receive $750 in art supplies and $750 worth of ketchup.
Six of the winners came from the state of New York, five from Miami and one from Minnesota.
Jo-Anne Kirkman, a teacher at Orono Intermediate Elementary School in Long Lake, Minn., whose third-grade student, Trevon Sladek, was one of the winners, said the contest was a "great lesson in commercial art and advertising."
"The kids loved the project: learning about art in the real world and finding out how ads are made," she said.
