The Superintendent's High School Art Show

2026 Art Show

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

Hazy yellow sunset peaking through the trees across an open grass field in the late evening, depicting a perfect moment in time.

Superintendent's Choice Award

Artist's Name: Raegan Hoffman
Title: Fleeting
Medium: Acrylic Paint
Dimensions: 36 x 24
Teacher: Joshua Everson
School/District: Olympia High School/Olympia

 
ceramic octopus

Governor's Choice Award

Artist's Name: Kristina Girvan
Title: Octavius
Medium: Ceramic Clay
Dimensions: 18 inches x 10 inches x 16 inches
Teacher: Andrew Anderson
School/District: Friday Harbor High School/San Juan Island

 
Colored pencil drawing of an eagle and a dove

OSPI Staff Choice Award

Artist's Name: Mia Ressa
Title: If you're not at the table, you're on the menu
Medium: Colored Pencil
Dimensions: 24" x 18" x
Teacher: Chad brazill
School/District: Lewis & Clark High School/Spokane

 
The artwork "Guardian" depicts a girl surrounded by two surrealistic cats. One is blue and the other is yellow, replicating the colors of the Ukrainian flag.

Jurors' Choice Award

Artist's Name: Elizabeth Severynko
Title: "Guardian"
Medium: Gouache, watercolor markers, pencil
Dimensions: 13.75 x 22 x 0
Teacher: Kyle Genther
School/District: Ridgeline High School/Central Valley

 
Three-panel gouache still life with fruits, vegetables, and fabric, using bright complementary colors and layered drapery to create contrast, depth, and visual harmony.

Jurors' Choice Award

Artist's Name: Mariia Ukhova
Title: Contrasting Drapery
Medium: Gouache
Dimensions: 39 x 17 x 0
Teacher: Erin Piccolo
School/District: Union High School/Evergreen (Clark)

 
My colored pencil drawing "Mother" pictures my pet chicken over a blue gingham background. Her feathers are very textured so I captured this by using colors other than black. These colors include blues, greens, and white on top of black. I used a ruler to draw the straight-lined gingham background with light blue and white.

Jurors' Choice Award

Artist's Name: McKenzie Burdick
Title: Mother
Medium: Color Pencil
Dimensions: 10.5 x 8 x 0
Teacher: Kit Christopherson
School/District: Oak Harbor High School/Oak Harbor

 
Mixed Media painting with newspapers of me standing with purposefully not using the umbrella in my hand. There is a road without an end in front of me, but I am not afraid of it anymore, because it is My Road that I choose to walk on.

ArtsEd Washington Award

Artist's Name: Jeana Jang
Title: My Road
Medium: Mixed Media
Dimensions: 30 x 40 x 1.5
Teacher: Do yun Im
School/District: Glacier Peak High School/Snohomish

 
"Plasticized" captures the moment in my life when I broke through the barrier in which I felt confined to from many years of unspoken hardship and family toils.

Washington Art Education Association Award

Artist's Name: Jisun Kim
Title: Plasticized
Medium: Acrylic Paint
Dimensions: 24 x 18 x 1.5
Teacher: Janelle Mock
School/District: Steilacoom High/Steilacoom Hist.

 
A abstract painting of a women with an American flag in the background

Washington Education Association Award & CWU Scholarship Award

Artist's Name: Marcella Mendoza
Title: Miss America
Medium: Acrylic
Dimensions: 24 in x 30 in x 24 in
Teacher: Brock Sadler
School/District: Richland High School/Richland

 
A person stands waist-deep in water, facing a large swirling Earth-like sphere in the sky, with trees to the right and reflective water surrounding them.

InspireWA Award

Artist's Name: Irene Oh
Title: Individuality
Medium: Acrylic Paint
Dimensions: 16 x 20 x 0
Teacher: Sunyoung Kwon
School/District: Skyline High School/Issaquah

 
In Tijuana, I stood above a valley where the fog settled so deeply it felt like I was above the world. In this "borderland,"

State Board of Education Award

Artist's Name: Charlie McLean
Title: Borderlands
Medium: Photography
Dimensions: 40 x 32 x 0
Teacher: Joe Kearns
School/District: Columbia Virtual Academy/Valley

 
A human skeleton decomposing and bringing forth plant life. 3x4ft, 3D mixed media.

Professional Educator Standards Board Award

Artist's Name: Jozey Donze
Title: Death Gives Birth to Life
Medium: acrylic paint, paper mache, and polymer clay
Dimensions: 3ft x 4ft x 8in
Teacher: Cecily Schmidt
School/District: Avanti High School/Olympia

 
A portrait of my extended furr Family

Public School Employees of Washington

Artist's Name: Karlie Kasper
Title: The Family Portrait
Medium: Mixed Media (acrylic, colored pencils, ink, and newspaper
Dimensions: 30 x 22 x 0
Teacher: Jana Whitfield
School/District: West Valley High School - West Valley (Yakima)/West Valley (Yakima)

 
Acrylic painting of a faux wooden shelf with toys and books placed in it.

Washington Association of School Administrators Award

Artist's Name: Claire Erickson
Title: Just Passing Through
Medium: Acrylic paint and modeling paste
Dimensions: 21 x 21 x 2
Teacher: Leah Kennedy
School/District: Kamiakin High School/Kennewick

 
A semi-realistic watercolor portraying painting tools. A glass cup with water, two red paintbrushes, a clearly used paint palette, and a paper towel lay on a desk as if placed without thought.

Association of Washington School Principals Award

Artist's Name: Sophia Marrón
Title: The process
Medium: Watercolor
Dimensions: 8 x 10 x 0
Teacher: Alan Pace
School/District: CASHMERE HIGH SCHOOL/Cashmere

 
"Shadows of a forest" is a double exposure of silhouettes of the evergreen trees over city of Seattle. I want to convey the impact that urbanization has had on our connection with nature.

Washington State School Directors' Association Award

Artist's Name: Adalyn Gomez
Title: Shadows of a forest
Medium: Photography
Dimensions: 12 x 10 x 0
Teacher: Sean Morrison
School/District: Union High School/Evergreen (Clark)

 
A dying bee on its back on a dampened reflective surface. Its arm is visibly in slight motion.

Washington State Parent Teacher Association Award

Artist's Name: Emma Simpkins
Title: The Last Reflection
Medium: Photography
Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 0
Teacher: Christa Mallory
School/District: Glacier Peak High School/Snohomish

 
Oil painting of Ruby Beach, one of the beaches apart of the Olympic coastline in Washington State. This painting features a view from the trees looking down on the sea stacks and tiny people on the shore.

Washington Interscholastic Activities Association Award

Artist's Name: Noah Martinsen
Title: Ruby Beach
Medium: Oil
Dimensions: 16 x 12 x 1
Teacher: Alexandra Green
School/District: River Ridge High School/North Thurston Public Schools

 
A graphite portrait of a woman in distress with acrylic detail overlay, representing the colors of the Mexican flag, which entertains the notions of resistance and social justice.

CWU Scholarship Award

Artist's Name: Scarlett Sakshaug
Title: ICE OUT
Medium: Graphite and Acrylic
Dimensions: 12 x 11 x 0
Teacher: Stephanie Mcgarvie
School/District: Skyview High School/Vancouver

 
"Me and Mochi" is a charcoal self-portrait of me and my chinchilla. I was inspired to do it by my love of animals. I focused on realistic texture, contrast, and shading to make it lifelike and show our special bond.

Honorable Mention

Artist's Name: Amaya Shaklee
Title: Me and Mochi
Medium: Charcoal
Dimensions: 16 x 15
Teacher: Brock Sadler
School/District: Richland High School/Richland

 
An owl sits on a branch with its eyes closed and one leg raised. Golden branches with flowers are wrapped around its wing. From the wing, the branches flow to the tail and turn into dry twigs. The tree roots climb up the trunk and wrap around the owl's feet as it stands.

Honorable Mention

Artist's Name: Olesia Tverdokhlib
Title: impermanence
Medium: Wire, tin foil, real feathers, handmade sculpting clay, foam, real stick.
Dimensions: 6 inch. x 15 inch x 6 inch.
Teacher: Brock Sadler
School/District: Richland High School/Richland

 
Two wheel-thrown ceramic vessels joined into an infinity form, featuring delicate, hand-built flowers with green glaze flowing over a contrasting raw clay surface.

Honorable Mention

Artist's Name: Gabbi Benson
Title: Eternal Bloom
Medium: Clay/ Ceramics
Dimensions: 12 inches x 28 inches x 7 inches
Teacher: Damian Smith
School/District: Chelan High School/Lake Chelan

 
An acrylic painting of a woman looking up with a somber expression. She is wearing a loose blue shirt that is draped over the shoulders

Contestant

Title: Shedding Skin
Medium: Acrylic Paint
Dimensions: 16 x 20 x 0

 
"Echoes of Ourselves is a black and white drawing of me holding a mirror, with the reflection revealing one of my closest friends. My piece depicts the idea that deep friendships act as reflections of who we are.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Mia Dominguez
Title: Echos of Ourselves
Medium: Graphite/Pencil
Dimensions: 12 x 18 x 0
Teacher: Rebekah Wilkins-Pepiton
School/District: Central Valley High School/Central Valley