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Student Art Contest 2016
Winning Artwork


High School Division: Place Winners
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First Place

Rocks
​Watercolor
Noelia Miranda
Age 17, in 12th grade
Cypress Ranch High School Public School - Teacher: Nancy Hines
"What inspired me to create this piece was a picture I took of a beach while touring Peru. I loved how the water crashed and glistened on the dark rocks and I wanted to recreate it with watercolors since it was a medium I previously wasn't experienced in."
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Second Place

Elise
​Gouache and Acrylic 
Leah Stonecipher
Age 18, in 12th grade
The Woodlands High School - Teacher: Jenny Lucas
"The purpose of this piece was to explore the human face in all its beauty, the irregular textures and abnormal colors unique to each individual. Using an ultra-saturated color palette, I developed a new technique involving crosshatching with the paint to help accentuate the planes of the face."

Third Place

Decommissioned
Colored Pencil and Acrylic 
Christopher McKnight
​Age 16,  in 11th grade
​Cypress Christian School Private School - Teacher: Beth Brubaker 
"This work is something I made based on some doodles in my sketchbook of simple little robots. I've always loved the art and vision of the future from the 50's and 60's, with atomic powered cars and robots cooking our food. I mixed that with the grungy look of today's future."


Honorable Mention

Sadie
Oils
Christy Lovelady
Age 7, in 11th grade
​Home Schooled - Teacher: Charlotte Lovelady
"As I was working on this portrait, I was thinking about how childhood is carefree and full of light.  Sadie is looking ahead to the sometimes dark, stormy days of adulthood, while the bright days of childhood are still shining down upon her."

High School Division: Jurors' Selections

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The Coat
Monoprint
Ashley Huang
Klein Oak High School
Teacher: ​Jennifer Schiebel
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 Polillas
Cut Paper
Fernando Osuna
College Park High School
Teacher: Leslie Lewis   ​
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Self Portrait
Graphite
Kaylan Quintero
Cypress Ranch High School
Teacher: Nancy Hines
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Contentment
Acrylics
Jessie Brown
John Cooper School
​Teacher: Karen Fearon    
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Winter Crane
Scratchboard,
Madileine Malo,
Klein High School
Teacher: ​Jessica Hamilton    

Middle School Division: Place Winners

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First Place

Turquoise Travelers
Colored Pencil

Adriana Puzon
Age 13 in 7th grade
​Spillane Middle School - Teacher: Lisa Bennett  
​ "This beautiful setting caught my eye immediately, like a hidden treasure.  With swirling jewels of magnificent vibrant color and light, rationally I couldn't ignore it."

Second Place

​Three Faces of Creative Expression
Colored Pencil,

Erin Del Paggio
Age 14 in 8th grade
Doerre Intermediate School - Teacher: Lorraine Millican
"This piece represents the different faces I make while working. I made these faces while brainstorming and incorporated them into the piece. The silly face represents the beginning of a project. The ""shh"" face represents my concentration during, and the exhausted face is me at the end of a piece."

Third Place

 Window Shard
Acrylic
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Tobi  Miller
Age 13, in 7th grade
McCullough Junior High School - Teacher; Cindy Moss
"We started this project after we studied Fauvism portraits done by Henri Matisse. Using acrylic paints, I blended analogous colors to develop intermediate tones and high contrast in values. I used water to weaken some colors on my face to create a transparent quality which gave a sense of texture to the surface."

Honorable Mention

Facetrasso
Mixed Media Collage
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Santiago Vazquez
Age 13, in 7th grade
​McCullough Junior High School - Teacher: Amy Flannery     
​"This Pablo Picasso inspired art piece is called 'The Facetrasso.'  To make this piece, I combined two self-portraits in a cubism like style and collaged a self made marbleized cloth on the piece along with other designs.  The Facetrasso represents the combinations of different personalities, frontal or side on." 

 
Middle School Di
vision: Jurors' Selections

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Elephant
Mixed Media 

Gabrielle Kostecki​ 
8th grade
Cypress Christian School Teacher Beth Brubaker  ​
Circus Elephants 
Acrylic 

Haley Johnson
​5th grade
Northpointe Intermediate School Teacher: Julie Schulte      ​
Sleeping Hunter
Acrylic    
Kalissa Finn 

8th grade  
Salem Lutheran School  
Teacher: Karen Paluch    ​
Tranquility of Nature,
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Pen and Ink    
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Leah Austin
 8th grade    

McCullough Junior 
​High School    
Teacher: Laurie Stone Adams   
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A Path Into The Unknown  
Printmaking    

Wyatt  Wright
8th grade
The John Cooper School   Teacher: Lesia Streckfuss    ​

Elementary School Division: Place Winners

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First Place

The Blossom
Mixed Media
Reese Robinson  
Age  7, in 2nd  grade
Mittelstadt Elementary School - 
Teacher:  Ruth Ackermann        
 "I like the pretty flowers and the background. 
I learned how to double load my paintbrush to make the flowers. I learned how to use ink and a straw to make the branches. I learned to use art tissue paper and water for the background."

Second Place

Snowy Sunrise of New York/Deep Blue Curtain of Spring Rain
​Printmaking Collagraph

Elakiya Jayaraman    
Age 9, in 3rd grade
​The John Cooper School - Teacher: Amy Dietrich    

"I made this print by cutting pieces of thick paper to look like buildings. We were making a Cityscape. I glued the paper down and made my city trying to show space and overlapping. When it was dry, I rolled two different colors of ink on the buildings and pressed it onto a black paper and there was my print! We made multiple prints with different colors so the colors would show in the next print."

Third Place

Fantasy Power
Chalk Pastels

​Melody Edwards    
Age 11, in 5th grade
​Klenk Elementary School - Teacher:  Tiffany Robinson  
​"My artwork is unique because it explains my African-American culture, as it also describes me as a beautiful, unique, talented person. It shows that no one can steal my power, that's why it's ""Fantasy Power."

Honorable Mention

The Barn
Oils 

Eoghan Collins
Age 10, in 4th grade  
St. Anne Catholic School - 
Teacher: Veronica Payan      
"The barn was an awesome barn and I like painting with oil. I painted a barn, because my grandpa told me that houses required more skills than barns."


Elementary School Division: Jurors' Selections

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Smooth Jazz 
Tempera   

Reva Guinn 
5th grade
The John Coooper School   Teacher: Karen Fearon      ​
Colorful Turtle
Tempera

Tessa Nieto-Alvarez
3rd grade
Blackshear Elementary School Teacher: Jodi Territo   ​
​Into the Night
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Printmaking

Carlos Calderon
4th grade
The John Coooper School   Teacher: Amy Dietrich   ​
Seen Better Days   
Mixed Media

Alejandro Cueto 
5th grade
Collins Intermediate School   Teacher: Janet Melton    ​
Spring Chickens  
Watercolor, Crayons

Naomi Villarreal   Kindergarten    
Carroll Elementary School
​Teacher: Sarah Kersh    
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Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts
6815 Cypresswood Drive
Spring, TX 77379
Phone: 281.376.6322
Fax: 281.376.2944

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$5 suggested donation for adult visitors
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