Cleveland's April Bleakney Selected as Round 3 Winner in CrossCountry Mortgage 'Paint the District' Competition
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CLEVELAND, April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Online voters have selected April (Ape) Bleakney, a Cleveland-based graphic artist specializing in screen printing, as the winner of Round 3 in the CrossCountry Mortgage (CCM) "Paint the District" competition. The yearlong competition – concluding this summer – will award one local artist the opportunity to create a work for permanent display in CCM's new corporate headquarters in Cleveland's Superior Arts District.
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- Cleveland-based graphic artist advances to final round in yearlong competition, wins $1,500 award
CLEVELAND, April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Online voters have selected April (Ape) Bleakney, a Cleveland-based graphic artist specializing in screen printing, as the winner of Round 3 in the CrossCountry Mortgage (CCM) "Paint the District" competition. - "We're excited to welcome April to the finalist round of our Paint the District arts competition while we enter round 4 of voting in our Paint the District contest," said Laura Soave, chief brand officer, CrossCountry Mortgage.
- Bleakney, along with two other Cleveland artists Scott Goss (round 1 finalist) and Pam Spremulli (round 2 finalist) plus a fourth additional artist to be selected during the current voting round will advance to the grand-prize round.
- CrossCountry Mortgage (CCM) is one of the nation's largest retail mortgage lenders, with more than 8,000 employees operating more than 600 branches across all 50 states.