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.

A life-size ceramic version of a sardines can with its lid being pulled back to find four individual clay sardines inside. The can has a dark gray and greenish color to it, while the lid of the can has a colorful label with red lettering. All four sardines have this blue and gray ombre glaze effect and have big, animated eyes.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Valeria Najar-Gandara
Title: "Can of Sardines"
Medium: Clay
Dimensions: 5 inches x 3 inches x 3 inches
Teacher: Justin Donahue
School/District: Evergreen High School - Evergreen (Clark)/Evergreen (Clark)

 
Image depicts a realistically-drawn elderly woman and small dog in black and white charcoal. The woman is gazing into the camera, holding the dog close to her head.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Marz Highley
Title: Grandjan And Ty
Medium: Charcoal
Dimensions: 12 x 16 x 0
Teacher: Patrick Godsil
School/District: Fort Vancouver High School/Vancouver

 
Girl with vitiligo and dark wavy hair, over a red background. She has a tear running down the side of her face, and targets on her face and chest.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Emma Ulmer
Title: an Atlas of Humanity
Medium: Watercolor and Micron
Dimensions: 12 x 17 x 0
Teacher: Maleah Cooper
School/District: Ridgefield High School/Ridgefield

 
This piece is a cityscape of buildings that are collaged with words. The center is made out of recycled fabric and resembles the world. Outside of this a ring of fire created from acrylic.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Laynie Comstock
Title: Radical Obliviation
Medium: Mixed collage, paint and stitched fabric
Dimensions: 13" x 13" x 1"
Teacher: Michael Smith
School/District: Woodland High School/Woodland

 
Double exposure of a closeup image of an eye blended with the branches of a tree.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Samuel Andrade
Title: Light of life
Medium: Digital Photography
Dimensions: 0 x 8 x 12
Teacher: Sean Morrison
School/District: Union High School/Evergreen (Clark)

 
In this picture you see, a self portrait of me as depicted as a clown.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Nakayla Dominguez
Title: My Reflection Wears a Punchline
Medium: Acrylic on Panel
Dimensions: 14" x 17" x 0
Teacher: Michael Smith
School/District: Woodland High School/Woodland

 
Young teenage girl pulling at face, shows the rawness of mental illness. Charcoal drawing

Contestant

Artist's Name: Amore Andrews
Title: Disassociate
Medium: Charcoal
Dimensions: 19.5" x 23.5" x 0
Teacher: Michael Smith
School/District: Woodland High School/Woodland

 
Japanese style tea pot with bamboo handle And various colors, green, blues and purples

Contestant

Artist's Name: Lola nichols
Title: オーロラ " aurora"
Medium: Ceramics
Dimensions: 6 x 5.5 x 4
Teacher: Melissa Swenson
School/District: Fort Vancouver High School/Vancouver

 
"Blossoming" is a self portrait created with oil paint, symbolizing growth and recognition of self worth.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Lily Blake
Title: Blossoming
Medium: Oil
Dimensions: 20 x 16 x 46024
Teacher: Jillian Giudice
School/District: Tumwater High School/Tumwater

 
A mixed media painting of a fountain at the end of a stone walkway lined with streetlights and foliage. It glitters in a ray of orange sunlight.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Aidan Stoker
Title: Fountain
Medium: Mixed Media
Dimensions: 23.875 x 18 x 0
Teacher: Joshua Everson
School/District: Olympia High School/Olympia

 
Person sitting on a concrete ledge with a beach in the background colored with vibrant colors.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Ryan Hillman
Title: Beach Weather
Medium: Acrylic paint and markers
Dimensions: 12 x 16 x 0
Teacher: Jill Guidice
School/District: Tumwater High School/Tumwater

 
Treeline represents my love for nature.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Kieran Cox
Title: Treeline
Medium: Ceramics
Dimensions: 8 x 6 x 8
Teacher: Jill Guidice
School/District: Tumwater High School/Tumwater

 
A realistic clay banana.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Hailey Damerow
Title: Overripe
Medium: Clay and acrylic
Dimensions: 4 x 1 x 1
Teacher: Courtney Warnick
School/District: Olympia High School/Olympia

 
"Reanimated" shows a hand bringing life to a portrait. This symbolizes how all humans have a passion that invigorates us with life, and gives meaning in an often mundane life.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Matthew Wang
Title: Reanimated
Medium: Charcoal
Dimensions: 24 x 30 x 0
Teacher: Joshua Everson
School/District: Olympia High School/Olympia

 
Two figures stand looking at the beach of a lake, with wave ripples on the shoreline. There are large mountains on the other side, a dock to the left, and huge clouds above. Rain comes down over the mountains on the right side.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Georgia Maurer
Title: Father's Day
Medium: Papercut
Dimensions: 11 x 14
Teacher: Joshua Everson
School/District: Olympia High School/Olympia

 
The image is compiled of white cut out in the style of a German Schereschnitte on the black background made of paper

Contestant

Artist's Name: Sylvia Chan
Title: Pesca'o
Medium: Paper
Dimensions: 12 x 14 x 0
Teacher: Joshua Everson
School/District: Olympia High School/Olympia

 
Black-and-white acrylic painting depicting a close-up of a smiling person wearing a backwards baseball cap.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Jane Birchard
Title: Silly Face
Medium: Acrylic
Dimensions: 16 x 20 x 0
Teacher: Dave Wegener
School/District: A G West Black Hills High School/Tumwater

 
Misty forest landscape with a river flowing through a steep canyon, surrounded by dense evergreen trees. The image is layered with transparent duplicates, creating a repeated, dreamlike depth effect.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Andrew Penrose
Title: Within The Foggy Valley
Medium: Digital Print of Film Photography
Dimensions: 0 x 20 x 16
Teacher: Traci McGowan
School/District: Tumwater High School/Tumwater

 
Drawing of unicorn in the forest

Contestant

Artist's Name: Kai Campbell
Title: The Unicorn
Medium: Block Printing
Dimensions: 0 x 18" x 12"
Teacher: Jake Reichner
School/District: Quilcene High And Elementary/Quilcene

 
A painting of self-harm, including multiple self induced cuts, one with "stitches" made out of a shoe lace, many layers, a use of paints, oil pastels, and many other mediums.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Maliki Blackner
Title: Punishment
Medium: Many, paints, oil pastels, i used lipgloss, etc etc
Dimensions: ? x 12in x 6in
Teacher: Sarah OConnel
School/District: South Kitsap High School/South Kitsap

 
Keanu, the lovable happy dog that is stingy with love. The playful short haired dog is just a simple reminder of joy and happiness. This piece, named Keanu, is a drawing of my dog. My first fully original piece of art.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Alison Garrity
Title: Keanu
Medium: Graphite
Dimensions: 4 3/4 inch x 7 inch
Teacher: Donald Sandmann
School/District: South Kitsap High School/South Kitsap

 
Painting of a person in nature looking down to a person in open night sky

Contestant

Artist's Name: Lily Walkup
Title: This could be beautiful
Medium: mixed
Dimensions: 12 x 18 x 1 in
Teacher: Robin Dudley
School/District: Bremerton High School/Bremerton

 
This image shows a shadowy girl in a creative handstand pose, set against the cool-toned landscape of a beach reflecting a vibrant blue sky and forested horizon.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Marissa Brandt
Title: Me, Myself, and I
Medium: Oil
Dimensions: 14.5 x 20 x 1
Teacher: Andrea Beck
School/District: Olympic High School/Central Kitsap

 
A portrait of a woman with soft-dreamy features, her eyes are closed, and her short black hair frames her face and compliments her warm brown skin. She has warm-toned makeup, shiny faint red-orange eyeshadow and faint rosy blush on her cheeks and nose.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Jazzlyn Cruz
Title: Dreamy Pupils
Medium: Soft pastels
Dimensions: 9 x 12 x 0
Teacher: Alison Roberts
School/District: /North Kitsap