Congratulations to our talented student artists for winning top honors in the 59th Annual Hawaii Regional Scholastic Art Awards. The annual competition features student artists in grades 7 through 12 from public, private, and home schools. Award categories include traditional mediums such as drawing and painting, to contemporary expressions including film and digital design. Entries are judged by panels of local artists, creative professionals, and cultural administrators from the community. The award-winning pieces were displayed at the Hawaii State Art Museum during spring break.

The complete listing of award-winning student artworks:

Gold Key Awards

• Mackenzie Nitta '22, Whoosh - Photography
• Rachael Kim '24, Reflection, Film Me - Drawing & Illustration
• Nayun (Hailey) Kim '22, Still life-Linkage - Drawing & Illustration
• Nayun (Hailey) Kim '22, The Pandemic Bridge, Twins - Mixed Media
• Sean Walrod '22, Captain Java Sparrow - Painting
• Maya Copeland '24, Winged Cupid - (Gold Key and American Visions Nominee) - Painting
• Kalanikapu Aona '23, identity - Film & Animation
• Raiden Nakagawa '23, Sushi Tea Pot - Ceramics & Glass
• Payton Smith '24, Patchwork Whale Speaker - Ceramics & Glass
• Rell Uehara '22, Dementia - Digital Art

Silver Key Awards

• Peyton Ibara '22, Bleeding Blossom, Normality - Photography
• Lukas Kuypers '22, May I? - Photography
• Elijah Solidum '22, ECCOLOQUAGO - Photography
• Knut Robinson '23, Ring, Solitude - Photography
• Maya Copeland '24, Shadow - Drawing & Illustration
• Dorthea Yoakum Me '23, Mixed Emotions - Drawing & Illustration
• Nayun (Hailey) Kim '22, Surfing in the City - Painting
• Kailey Holbrook '25, Bravery's Power - Film & Animation
• Ryland Paulino '22, Ono Kine Recipes - (Silver Key and Pu'uhonua Society Award in Memory of Emma Aluli Meyer) - Design
• Yuyuko Miyazaki '23, Doggie - Ceramics & Glass
• Tia Shimabukuro '22, a world within a world - Ceramics & Glass
• Shayna Nakamura '22, Stand Up - Sculpture
• Sean Walrod '22, Pesky Nun - Printmaking

Honorable Mention

• Anabella Arzate '23, What We Lose - Photography
• Dillon Balantac '23, Fume, Medea - Photography
• Noah Gosiaco '22, bottomless - Photography
• Bryn Higuchi '23, Papa - Photography
• Mackenzie Nitta '22, Pink Panther - Photography
• Ashley Okinaka '22, Avalanche!!!, Dream Land - Photography
• Melsum Ratto '23, Fusion - Photography
• Rylie Shaniyo '22, Street Art, Stare, Ko'olau Range - Photography
• Knut Robinson '23, Decaying earth - Photography
• Rachael Kim '24, Below the Sweat - Drawing & Illustration
• Yoshimune Hadley '22, Wildly Domestic Work - Drawing & Illustration
• Shayna Nakamura '22, Home Planet - Ceramics & Glass
• Elle Sparks '22, Checkmate - Ceramics & Glass
• Chelsee Sawai '22, Happily Tied - Ceramics & Glass
  
• Elilai Petko '23, My Shoe - Ceramics & Glass
• Yuyuko Miyazaki '23, Tree teapot - Ceramic & Glass
• Rose Matsunaga '22, A Bale of Turtles - Ceramic & Glass
• Nainoa Hayashi '23, Par-Tea - Ceramic & Glass
• Nayun (Hailey) Kim '22, Self Portrait - Refraction - Sculpture
• Emma Klassen-Lee '22, Magnolia - Digital Art
• Solana Isgar '23, Humans of my Imagination - Comic Art

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