2024 Art Show

Gallery of the Superintendent's High School Art Show state and regional winners. To enlarge images, simply click on the image.

An abstract photograph of mixed autumnal colors representing nature and emotion

Contestant

Artist's Name: Ace McGraw
Title: Border Between Leaf & Illusion
Medium: Photography
Dimensions: 11" x 14"
Teacher: Troy Wayrynen
School/District: Heritage High School/Evergreen (Clark)

 
An acrylic painting of a young man holding hands with his aunt in front of an apple orchard

Contestant

Artist's Name: Semuel Hoogendoorn
Title: Aunt Sam Sends Her Love
Medium: Acrylic Paint
Dimensions: 16" x 20"
Teacher: Elsa Clark
School/District: Wahkiakum High School/Wahkiakum

 
A 3D ceramic creation of a bakery with a realistic display of its interior

Contestant

Artist's Name: Ada Chen
Title: Fumy Bakery
Medium: Clay Ceramics
Dimensions: 4.5 x 5 x 4.8
Teacher: Melissa Swenson
School/District: Fort Vancouver High School/Vancouver

 
A mixed media image of a young girl in front of the sun with hues of gold and deep blue

Contestant

Artist's Name: Adara Grieco
Title: Rising Reflection
Medium: Mixed Media
Dimensions: 12.5" x 17"
Teacher: Maleah Cooper
School/District: Ridgefield High School/Ridgefield

 
A ceramic bowl with abstract blue and green to represent colors in the PNW. There is a notch for where the chopsticks go.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Bailey Lim
Title: Jade Showers
Medium: Clay Ceramics
Dimensions: 2.5 x 6 x 2.3
Teacher: Heidi Keith
School/District: Camas High School/Camas

 
A realistic painting of a pretty young woman behind a lit birthday cake

Contestant

Artist's Name: Emiliana Newell
Title: Self-Portrait Birthday
Medium: Acrylic Paint
Dimensions: 20" x 16"
Teacher: Maleah Cooper
School/District: Ridgefield High School/Ridgefield

 
A painting of a very young girl portrayed as a veterinarian with her stuffed animal

Contestant

Artist's Name: Emily Ackerman
Title: A Picture of Diligence
Medium: Acrylic Paint
Dimensions: 14" x 11"
Teacher: Andrea Johnston
School/District: Homelink River/Battle Ground

 
a clay ceramic creation of a brown black bowl with abradial spider web design

Contestant

Artist's Name: Lauren Popp
Title: Glass Webs
Medium: Clay Ceramics
Dimensions: 1.5 x 7.5 x 7.5
Teacher: Michael Smith
School/District: Woodland High School/Woodland

 
Clay ceramics creation of a young white kitty in a head downward position on a small white round pedastal

Contestant

Artist's Name: Marina French
Title: Yoga Kitty
Medium: Clay Ceramics
Dimensions: 4.5 x 4.5 x 6
Teacher: Charemon Smith
School/District: Kelso High School/Kelso

 
An oil painting of the artist falling to illustrate a fear of being consumed by thoughts

Contestant

Artist's Name: Erik Rosas Higuera
Title: Vicissitude
Medium: Oil
Dimensions: 30" x 24"
Teacher: Molly Houk
School/District: J M Weatherwax High School/Aberdeen

 
An acrylic painting of a character from the book Darian Gray

Contestant

Artist's Name: Kyla Sproul
Title: Picture of Darian Gray
Medium: Acrylic Paint
Dimensions: 48" x 24"
Teacher: Katy Govan
School/District: Timberline High School/North Thurston Public Schools

 
A Digital Art piece showing two human horse headed figures holding hands with a cloudy sky in the background

Contestant

Artist's Name: Alyvea Rasmussen
Title: Looking Over Monochrome Fields Whilst Holding Hands with your Horse Headed Love
Medium: Digital Art
Dimensions: 11" x 11"
Teacher: Molly Houk
School/District: J M Weatherwax High School/Aberdeen

 
A realistic colored pencil drawing of a frog

Contestant

Artist's Name: Noah Deligeannis
Title: Froggy Froggy
Medium: Colored Pencil
Dimensions: 9" x 12"
Teacher: Leisel Potter
School/District: Timberline High School/North Thurston Public Schools

 
A pen and ink drawing of a girl climbing on a ladder to a treehouse in the woods

Contestant

Artist's Name: Ciera Wallace
Title: 6/4/23
Medium: Ink
Dimensions: 9" x 12"
Teacher: Joshua Everson
School/District: Olympia High School/Olympia

 
A digital painting of a regal blue heron with vibrant purple and a bright orange sunset

Contestant

Artist's Name: Mary Ellen "Sunny" Peterson
Title: 2-7.1
Medium: Digital Painting
Dimensions: 7" x 5 "
Teacher: Traci McGowan
School/District: Tumwater High School/Tumwater

 
A black and white close up photograph of leaves with a bubble resting on top

Contestant

Artist's Name: Paige Morgan
Title: Don't Burst My Bubble
Medium: Digital Photography
Dimensions: 11" x 17"
Teacher: Traci McGowan
School/District: Tumwater High School/Tumwater

 
An Egyptian clay canopic jar in the shape of a crocodile

Contestant

Artist's Name: Olivia Ordway
Title: The Patient Croc
Medium: Clay & Glaze
Dimensions: 14.5x5.5x4.5
Teacher: Courtney Warnick
School/District: Olympia High School/Olympia

 
A clay creation of a surrealist beetle on its back with bird legs sticking up in the air.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Oliver Dickason
Title: Adaption
Medium: Clay & Glaze
Dimensions: 7.5x18.5x3.5
Teacher: Courtney Warnick
School/District: Olympia High School/Olympia

 
A close up portrayal of a boy and dog laying next to each other smiling

Contestant

Artist's Name: Sophie Ruth Hyatt
Title: A Boy and his Dog
Medium: Acrylic Paint
Dimensions: 14" x 11"
Teacher: Joshua Everson
School/District: Olympia High School/Olympia

 
A mixed media artwork telling a story of the artist's Godparents

Contestant

Artist's Name: Vincie Jahn
Title: 3:30 AM (My Memory is Hazy)
Medium: Mixed Media
Dimensions: 12" x 12"
Teacher: Joshua Everson
School/District: Olympia High School/Olympia

 
A digital art piece illustrating the artist's cat as a Kraken underwater with bubbles

Contestant

Artist's Name: Eva Wegeleben
Title: My Cat, Kraken, as the Kraken
Medium: Digital Art
Dimensions: 8" x 11"
Teacher: Ella Caplan
School/District: Tenino High School/Tenino

 
A graphite illustration of the artist's face with her eye brought to life with watercolor

Contestant

Artist's Name: Loralai Finnegan
Title: The Ship of Theseus
Medium: Graphite
Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Teacher: Katy Govan
School/District: Timberline High School/North Thurston Public Schools

 
Black and White Digital Photograph of a person behind a mirror

Contestant

Artist's Name: Cao Panya
Title: Disappearance
Medium: Digital Photography
Teacher: David Egeler
School/District: Port Townsend High School/Port Townsend

 
An acrylic painting of a small deer nestled next to a skull

Contestant

Artist's Name: Evan Christensen
Title: An Unbreakable Bond
Medium: Acrylic Paint
Dimensions: 11" x 14"
Teacher: Andrea Beck
School/District: Olympic High School/Central Kitsap