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.

The image "A Work in Progress" depicts an artist's hands palms up while they decide what to create. The background is blank, so the focus is on the artist themself.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Haven Peterson
Title: A Work in Progress
Medium: Watercolor
Dimensions: 9 x 12 x 0
Teacher: Michelle McBride
School/District: Southridge High School/Kennewick

 
A portrait of my dear friend and art motivation Veronica done in pencil.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Eduardo Gallegos
Title: My Friend Vero
Medium: Pencil
Dimensions: 12.5 x 15 x 0.5
Teacher: Nathan McEachen
School/District: Pasco Senior High School/Pasco

 
A Colored pencil and turpenoid self portrait of myself acting out the trend "Mewing" with red light highlighting the form of the face.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Benjamin Erickson
Title: Shhh
Medium: Colored Pencil with Turpenoid oil
Dimensions: 9 x 12 x 0
Teacher: Leah Kennedy
School/District: Kamiakin High School/Kennewick

 
This piece shows an adult with a strong and reflective face, his beard and hair are long and untidy. The drawing is focused on the face, the stuff around it is not as detailed.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Jose Pedraza Fraga
Title: Reflections
Medium: Pencil drawing
Dimensions: 9 x 12 x 0
Teacher: Steve priest
School/District: Wenatchee High School/Wenatchee

 
An illustration depicting a skull, feather, and an apple nested on top of a pile of fur.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Bettie Donovan
Title: Trader
Medium: Graphite
Dimensions: 24 x 18 x 0
Teacher: Rose Weagant
School/District: Okanogan High School/Okanogan

 
A mixed media piece featuring a branch of blueberries painted in shades of deep blue, purple, magenta, and various shades of green. finished with colored pencil and fine-line ink details, set against a vibrant yellow and orange background.

Contestant

Artist's Name: isabel harris
Title: Summer
Medium: Watercolor, ink, and colored pencil
Dimensions: 6 inches x 8 inches x 0
Teacher: Stephen Priest
School/District: Wenatchee High School/Wenatchee

 
Blue and Green Translucent is a photo of a colorful glass cup with a strong light.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Jimmy Calderon
Title: Blue and Green Translucent
Medium: Photography
Dimensions: 10 x 8
Teacher: Brad Skiff
School/District: Bridgeport High School/Bridgeport

 
This piece is drawn on a black 24 by 18 inches of paper. On the paper is a guinea pig skull, that is a sort of block shape to it, broken by the jaw bone in the back and the buck teeth in the front. The eye socket, bottom center of the jaw, and most of the teeth, are colored mostly with white and have a fade from yellow to orange around it. Everything else mostly shaded in purples and blues, with the nostril socket having minimal yellow and orange.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Taylor Arce
Title: Light of My Death - Gizmo
Medium: Prisma Colored Pencils
Dimensions: 24 x 18 x 0
Teacher: Russell Rummler
School/District: Wenatchee High School/Wenatchee

 
A white dove, being held down by the large claws of a snarling lioness, as the life slowly gets drained from the dove by the lioness's fangs, with a dark, shaded over forest serving as the background.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Khayyim Scott
Title: The Dove and the Lioness
Medium: Pencil and Paper
Dimensions: 10 x 9 x 0
Teacher: Cassie Marchbank
School/District: Quincy High School/Quincy

 
Childhood stays with you, even if you feel like you've outgrown it.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Madalynn Maher
Title: Childhood
Medium: Paint, markers, colored pencils.
Dimensions: 11 in x 14 in x 2in
Teacher: Dan Brown
School/District: Okanogan Outreach Alternative School/Okanogan

 
A typographic cherry illustration composed of layered text, with a green stem and red fruit formed from words related to cherries, creating a cohesive and contemporary visual composition.

Contestant

Artist's Name: tapi
Title: El campo de cerezas
Medium: Digital
Dimensions: 10 x 10 x 1
Teacher: Karla Banks
School/District: Warden High School/Warden

 
A watercolor painting depicting a cracked ceramic bowl with golden light spilling out of the cracks. This piece filled with meaningful details and symbolism that work together to build a strong message represented through art.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Hudson Blackburn
Title: Wounds of Light
Medium: Watercolor
Dimensions: 8 inches x 10 inches x 0
Teacher: Alan Pace
School/District: CASHMERE HIGH SCHOOL/Cashmere

 
me skis simplicity are simple and useful

Contestant

Artist's Name: james priest
Title: simplicity
Medium: plywood and fiber glass and markerr
Dimensions: 67in x 3in x 12in
Teacher: Steve priest
School/District: Wenatchee High School/Wenatchee

 
Colored pencil illustration of a man seated at a fast-food table, holding a burger and sauce packet, with fries, drinks, and a tray in front, and other customers in the background.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Brenda Carrillo
Title: A Table for Two
Medium: Watercolor, colored pencil, acrylic paint, pencil
Dimensions: 7 1/2 inches x 10 inches x 0
Teacher: Alan Pace
School/District: CASHMERE HIGH SCHOOL/Cashmere

 
"Radio Flyer" is a photo of a cherry red radio flyer tricycle hanging from a chain on a tree. It is illuminated by the blue background of the sky, and the photo bottom is fringed by trees.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Phaedra Myers
Title: Radio Flyer
Medium: Digital Photography
Dimensions: 8" x 10" x 0"
Teacher: Teara Dillon
School/District: Cascade High School - Cascade/Cascade

 
"Isaiah" is a close-up portrait from my AP Art concentration Up Close and Far Away, capturing a friend who moved away and the memories that remain.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Jasper Christopherson
Title: "Isaiah"
Medium: Colored Pencil
Dimensions: 9 x 12 x 0
Teacher: Kit Christopherson
School/District: Oak Harbor High School/Oak Harbor

 
A circular ceramic dish about 2 inches deep and 8 inches wide, with a brown outer edge and white interior that features a pink/humpy salmon

Contestant

Artist's Name: Morgan Brawford
Title: Salmon dinner
Medium: Ceramic/clay
Dimensions: 8-5/16 inches x 1-3/4 inches x 8-5/16 inches
Teacher: Kayla Spruce
School/District: Oak Harbor High School/Oak Harbor

 
"One Fish, Two Fish" apply your own curious thoughts to this bright painting.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Lalana Ishikawa
Title: One Fish, Two Fish
Medium: Acrylic
Dimensions: 15.1 x 9 x 0.8
Teacher: Suzanne McLelland
School/District: Burlington Edison High School/Burlington-Edison

 
A painting in which a girl sits upsetly at the bottom middle of the canvas as masked creatures reach and consume the stars that she exudes.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Kaitlin Cellona
Title: "Hypocritical Consumers"
Medium: Paint and cardboard
Dimensions: 35 x 40 x 0
Teacher: Kit Christopherson
School/District: Oak Harbor High School/Oak Harbor

 
"Divergent" Photograph of a road line aligned with a tree

Contestant

Artist's Name: Megan Saadati
Title: Divergent
Medium: Mirrorless camera and Adobe
Dimensions: N/A x 7.642 x 5
Teacher: Donna Schou
School/District: Lynnwood High School/Edmonds

 
Image "Nostalgia" depicting two sisters resting together, painted in monochromatic blue acrylic.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Raya Stiles
Title: Nostalgia
Medium: Acrylic Paint
Dimensions: 14" x 11" x 0
Teacher: Catherin Gersich
School/District: Bellingham High School/Bellingham

 
this piece is created only by dots (Pointillism/Stippling. It took well over 200 hours, and is my most detailed piece in this medium. This is part of my AP drawing portfolio, a collection built only through the exploration of pointillism.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Joel Bennett
Title: For N.
Medium: Pen and Ink Pointillism
Dimensions: 9 in x 12in x 0
Teacher: Kit Christopherson
School/District: Oak Harbor High School/Oak Harbor

 
"One, Two, Three, Cheese!" is an oil pastel artwork depicting myself as a little girl, around age 5, holding a handmade paper smile on a popsicle stick over my true smile. I have dark tousled wavy hair, a grey power rangers t-shirt, and brown dark brown eyes. I sit at a wooden school classroom desk, but behind me is an entirely surreal cloud setting. I used real construction paper to create the smile: maroon red lips, crooked off-white teeth, and a black for the mouth's interior. The paper pops out on top o

Contestant

Artist's Name: Sarina Randolph
Title: "One, Two, Three, Cheese!"
Medium: Oil Pastel, and Construction Paper
Dimensions: 12 x 15 x 0
Teacher: Kit Chritstopherson
School/District: Oak Harbor High School/Oak Harbor

 
A woman standing in front of a stained glass window gazing off to the side.

Contestant

Artist's Name: Miyabi Leelaphisut
Title: Stained Glass
Medium: Digital Art
Dimensions: 9.17 x 10.83 x 0
Teacher: Kit Christopherson
School/District: Oak Harbor High School/Oak Harbor