2024 Art Show

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

A self portrait created digitally of the artist's face to convey a sense of innocence and childlike wonder.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Laurel Bacon
Title: Lights Out
Medium: Digital Art
Dimensions: 11.25" x 11.75"
Teacher: Leah Kennedy
School/District: Kamiakin High School/Kennewick

 
A painting of the artist painting herself in a gallery with the palette in her mouth as she creates herself.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Savannah Memmott
Title: Artist of my Fate
Medium: Acrylic Paint
Dimensions: 24" x 26"
Teacher: Leah Kennedy
School/District: Kamiak High School/Kennewick

 
A stained glass mosaic of the artist, an up close image of a young boy's face, wearing glasses with blond hair

Contestant

Artist's Name: Miles Noethe
Title: Resting
Medium: Stained glass panel
Teacher: Brock Sadler
School/District: Richland High School/Richland

 
A gouache painting of a young girl's face surrounded by vibrant, colorful flowers.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Renee Paulson
Title: Blooming
Medium: Gouache Painting
Dimensions: 8" x 11"
Teacher: Michelle McBride
School/District: Southridge High School/Kennewick

 
A charcoal drawing of a young football player looking hopefully toward his future

Contestant

Artist's Name: Callisto Pleake
Title: #32
Medium: Charcoal
Dimensions: 20" x 16"
Teacher: Brock Sadler
School/District: Richland High School/Richland

 
A watercolor painting of bright oranges on green vines

Contestant

Artist's Name: Haven Peterson
Title: Orange You Glad I Painted This
Medium: Ink & Watercolor
Dimensions: 5.25" x 5"
Teacher: Michelle McBride
School/District: Southridge High School/Kennewick

 
A dark blue toned vase with a humpback whale circling around it and its tail peeking above the top of the vase

Contestant

Artist's Name: Rebecca Graves
Title: The Curious Humpback
Medium: Ceramic
Dimensions: 6" x 6" x 12"
Teacher: Robert McMinn
School/District: Southridge High School/Kennewick

 
A 3D paper quilling collage of a bumble bee with colorful wings.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Rylee Keck
Title: Bee-Tiful
Medium: Paper quilling
Dimensions: 12" X 15"
Teacher: Donna Baumgartner
School/District: Kiona-Benton City High School/Kiona-Benton City

 
A fired recycled glass art piece with bright hues of blue, orange and red.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Nathan Porter
Title: Entropy
Medium: Glass
Dimensions: 8"x5"x5"
Teacher: Robert McMinn
School/District: Richland High School/Richland

 
A Wood table combined with blue marbling Epoxy

Contestant

Artist's Name: Reese Zorn
Title: Wave on Wave
Medium: Wood & epoxy
Dimensions: 9 3/4" x 34' x 23"
Teacher: Donna Baumgartner
School/District: Kiona-Benton City High School/Kiona-Benton City

 
The artist created a drawing of a locked mechanical heart buried in flowers.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Isabella Pinto
Title: Emotionless
Medium: Alcohol-Based Marker
Teacher: Jeff Rader
School/District: Hanford High School/Richland

 
A series of watercolor ink paintings of eight individual birds found in the Pacific Northwest

Contestant

Artist's Name: Anna Campbell
Title: The Birds
Medium: Ink & Watercolor
Dimensions: 23" x 21"
Teacher: Jessica Jones
School/District: Three Rivers Home Link/Richland

 
An acrylic painting of a still-life image of a pomegranate split in half against a black background

Contestant

Artist's Name: Yudid Camberos-Preciado
Title: Pomegranate
Medium: Acrylic Paint
Dimensions: 8.25" x 4"
Teacher: Jessica Stoker
School/District: Kennewick High School/Kennewick

 
A watercolor painting of a man's angry face with vivid colors of red and blue

Contestant

Artist's Name: Oscar Lopez
Title: Staring Pretentiousness Right in the Eye
Medium: Ink & Watercolor
Dimensions: 15" x 12"
Teacher: Russ Rummler
School/District: Wenatchee High School/Wenatchee

 
A watercolor painting of the artist and his sister riding dirt bikes on a camping trip

Contestant

Artist's Name: Mykla Smith
Title: Spring Ride
Medium: Ink & Watercolor
Dimensions: 8" x 8"
Teacher: Alan Pace
School/District: CASHMERE HIGH SCHOOL/Cashmere

 
An expressionist oil painting of a lonely teenage girl being turned down during Homecoming week.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Saige O'Keefe
Title: Homecoming Blues
Medium: Oil Pastel
Dimensions: 24" x 18"
Teacher: Alan Pace
School/District: CASHMERE HIGH SCHOOL/Cashmere

 
Douglas Creek depicts a pool of water and a small waterfall in a dry and desert valley.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Devon Cervine
Title: Douglas Creek
Medium: Acrylic Paint
Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Teacher: Matthew Kimmel
School/District: Eastmont Senior High/Eastmont

 
A colorful photograph of two high school wrestlers up close and in a crucial moment of their contest.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Clara Hawkins
Title: 10th Grade Wrestler
Medium: Color Photography
Dimensions: 14" x 11"
Teacher: Lissa Mensik
School/District: Tonasket High School/Tonasket

 
A black and white photograph of the artist laying down on the ground and then mirroring the image to form a heart shape.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Katherine Bertschy
Title: The Matrix of the Heart
Medium: Photography
Dimensions: 7" x 5"
Teacher: Reed Carlson
School/District: Wenatchee High School/Wenatchee

 
A clay replica of a prehistoric claw.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Joshua Jacobs
Title: The Claw
Medium: Clay & Glaze
Dimensions: 3" x 2" x 2.5"
Teacher: Steve Priest
School/District: Wenatchee High School/Wenatchee

 
"Fear Me Not" is a series of graphite illustrations that show biblically accurate angels.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Matias Soto
Title: Fear Me Not
Medium: Graphite
Dimensions: 27" x 39"
Teacher: Chelsea Putnam
School/District: Wenatchee High School/Wenatchee

 
Abstract art created with oil pastels to show the chaotic nature of the brain using vivid colors.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Ethan Flansburg
Title: My World
Medium: Oil Pastels
Dimensions: 7.5" x 11.5"
Teacher: Teara Dillon
School/District: Cascade High School - Cascade/Cascade

 
This painting depicts a person looking into a mirror and seeing their reflection with a lightening bolt symbol related to David Bowie.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Quinn Warren
Title: Rebel Rebel
Medium: Acrylic Paint
Dimensions: 28" x 21"
Teacher: Emily Palmiter
School/District: Kamiak High School/Mukilteo

 
A ceramic mug with blue and white hues with a trout visible and the tail as part of the handle

Contestant

Artist's Name: Gabriella Wilton
Title: Blue Trout
Medium: Ceramic
Dimensions: 3.8x5x3.5
Teacher: Kate Obukowicz
School/District: Snohomish High School/Snohomish