On December 20 the Kiwanis Club of Kailua-Kona hosted its winter art contest for the Kealakehe Intermediate School Art Program. Each semester ends with a contest that culminates everything the students have learned over the semester.
The theme for this contest is place based, emphasizing Hawaiian words. The students were furnished with information on the Kiwanis Club by art teacher, Starr Anastasio. This semester the theme was “Kiwanis Means to Malama Keiki” (care for children), and these words had to be visible on the students’ work.
The entries must also include each of the 7 elements of art that they learned explicitly during their art class.
Generous cash prizes were awarded for 1 st through 5 th place, with 2 honorable
mentions:
1 st – $75, Sara Podry
2 nd – $60, Audrey Kanehailua-Kekauoha
3 rd – $50, Imani Harnage
4 th – $35, Mira Wakumoto
5 th – $25, Michelle Pond
Honorable Mentions – $25, Ciara Aparicio and Lexi Torres
There were over 40 total entries, all from 8th graders and all magnificent! It was a difficult job for the judges, Kiwanians Linda Takai, Franz Weber and Betty Eavis, and Peggy Wilson, Carolyn Emery and Shantel Obadencio from The Regency Hualalai, to choose the winners.
The competition was the students’ final project for their art class. They loved this project and the added element of a competition gave it extra attention and drovestudents to do their very best work. All of the pictures are framed and displayed in the school library.