More than 40 Parker School students have recently earned over 50 awards in three art competitions. The kindergarten through 12th grade students are being recognized for original artwork submitted to Youth Art Month, Young at Art and The Waimea Arts
More than 40 Parker School students have recently earned over 50 awards in three art competitions. The kindergarten through 12th grade students are being recognized for original artwork submitted to Youth Art Month, Young at Art and The Waimea Arts Council’s Na Opio Student Art Show at the Fireside Gallery.
Youth Art Month is a statewide competition administered by The Council for Art Education emphasizing the value of art education. Eighteen Parker students in grades one through 12 submitted 19 pieces, all of which have been chosen as statewide winners from more than 780 submissions. Their art is on display through Sunday in the State Capitol Building on Oahu.
Two students earned top honors in the competitive statewide exhibition: Ava Harris (grade 2) won best in her age group for her oil pastel and glue self portrait titled “Picasso and I” and Rusty Leialoha-Cabral (grade 7) won best in his age group for his digital photo collage titled “Waves of Creativity.”
The second art competition lower and middle school students participated in is Young at Art, an exhibit for public, private, charter and home school children on Hawaii Island by the East Hawaii Cultural Center &Hawaii Museum of Contemporary Art in Hilo. Eighth-grade student Reece Herendeen earned top honors as Judges Choice, one of just 10 pieces chosen from more than 300 submissions, with his acrylic painting titled “Pop Art Dog Affect.” In all, the artwork of 21 Parker students in kindergarten through grade eight earned recognition as islandwide winners. Student artwork is on display through Saturday at the EHCC/HMCA at 141 Kalakaua St. in Hilo as part of the Young at Art exhibit.
Twelve upper and middle school students earned awards in The Waimea Arts Council’s Na Opio Student Art Show. This contest exhibits winning artwork by students in grades six through 12 from the North Kohala, South Kohala and Hamakua districts now through Sunday at the Firehouse Gallery in Waimea. Parker students earned five first place awards, three second place and four third place awards for a total of 12 of the possible 21 Na Opio awards. Artwork by an additional sixteen students was also selected to be featured in the exhibition.
Check out the full list of awards online at www.westhawaiitoday.com.
Info: www.parkerschoolhawaii.org.
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The following students received awards by Youth Art Month:
– Kingston Harris (grade 1) for “Van Gogh Takes Flight” (oil pastel self portrait)
– Nithera Olsen (grade 1) for “Van Gogh Smiling” (oil pastel self portrait)
– Ava Harris (grade 2) for “Picasso and I” (oil pastel and glue self portrait)
– Danica DiDonato (grade 3) for “Matisse Brings out the Best in Me” (paper self portrait)
– Hugo Amos (grade 5) for “Chilling in the Blue” (oil pastel and watercolor)
– Kouske Soler (grade 5) for “Inner Layers of Me” (digital photo and painted collaged self portrait)
– Rusty Leialoha-Cabral (grade 7) for “Waves of Creativity” (digital photo collage)
– Kirra Crawford (grade 7) for “My Growing Mind” (digital photo collage)
– Nakai Gaglione (grade 7) for “Creative Waves” (mixed media collage)
– Andrew Groves (grade 7) for “Sounds of Creativity” (oil pastel and watercolor painting)
– Halia Buchal (grade 8) for “Creativity Spreads” (pen and marker self portrait) and for “Creative Muse” (watercolor and marker self portrait)
– Reece Herendeen (grade 8) for “Pop Art Dog Effect” (acrylic painting)
– Shea Ervin (grade 9) for “Acrylic On Canvas” (self portrait)
– Jenna Harris (grade 9) for “Portrait #3” (acrylic on canvas)
– Soleil Fitz-Gerald (grade 10) for “Sister Series #13” (photography)
– Coco Romano Giordano (grade 11) for “Sea Life” (photography)
– Marlo Mundon (grade 12) for “When Past and Present Collide” (acrylic on masonite)
– Mick Miller (grade 12) for “Owlscape” (pen and ink)
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The following students received awards by Young at Art:
– Arie Freedland (Kindergarten) for “Four Seasons Mask” (mixed media mask)
– Kayla Klett (Kindergarten) for “Four Seasons Mask” (mixed media mask)
– Kingston Harris (grade 1) for “Van Gough Takes Flight” (oil pastel self portrait)
– Zane Imonen (grade 1) for “VanGogh Kind of Day” (oil pastel self portrait)
– Riley Morchesky (grade 1) for “Starry Night by Myself” (oil pastel self portrait)
– Dylan Jones (grade 2) for “Gamerboy Picasso” (oil pastel and glue self portrait)
– Takarrah Presley (grade 2) for “Picasso Me!” (oil pastel self portrait)
– Aden Buhl (grade 3) for “Owl Totem Pole” (cardboard and paper sculpture) and for Pono of Lehua Hawaiian Quilt (block print)
– Rebecca Mishkin (grade 3) for “Matisse Me the Ball” (paper self portrait)
– Lily Simmersbach (grade 3) for “Matisse and I Play Ball” (paper self portrait)
– Riley Todd (grade 3) for “Firebird Totem Pole” (cardboard and paper sculpture)
– Kahea Gaglione (grade 4) for “My Warhol” (paper self portrait)
– Jayden Bosque (grade 7) for “My Inner Demons” (digital drawing)
– Justin Chesler (grade 7) for “Puppy of Mind” (acrylic painting)
– Kirra Crawford (grade 7) for “My growing Mind” (digital photo collage)
– Teo Ippolito (grade 7 ) for “Mindcraft Creator” (ceramic sculpture)
– Rusty Leialoha-Cabral (grade 7) for “Waves of Creativity” (digital photo collage)
– Jamie Saito (grade 7) for “Hanging Around” (digital drawing)
– Nissi Ragland (grade 7) for “A Mind to Travel” (digital photo collage)
– Reece Herendeen (grade 8) for “Pop Art Dog Effect” (acrylic painting)
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The following students received awards in The Waimea Art Council’s Na Opio competition:
– Rusty Leialoha-Cabral (grade 7) first place for Waves of creativity (digital photo collage)
– Andrew Groves (grade 7) first place for Sounds of Creativity (oil pastel and watercolor painting)
– Jamie Saito (grade 7) second place for Hanging Around (digital drawing)
– Halia Buchal (grade 8) third place for Creative Muse (watercolor and maker self portrait)
– Maya Ellsworth (grade 9) first place for “The Eye of the Artist” (photography)
– Anna Gaglioni (grade 9) second place for “Why Aren’t We All Like This Wise Old Bird” (ceramic)
– Jenna Harris (grade 9) third place for “Fractured” (acrylic on canvas)
– Soleil Fitz-Gerald (grade 10) first place for “The World Is Shifting Around Me” (photography)
– Riley Herendeen (grade 10) third place for “The Universe is in the Eye of the Beholder” (photography)
– Layne Kawe Lincoln (grade 11) second place for “The Gaps Before Completion, A Triptych” (ceramic)
– Eric Fetsch (grade 11) third place for “Venus Reimagined” (mixed media)
– Mick Miller (grade 12) first place for “Life and Death in Cycle” (ceramic)
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