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2025 Award Winners
High School Visual Arts Competition
Best in Show
Pearls, Chloe Haydon
Daniel Hand High School
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Bas Relief
1st Place: Grandma's Garden, Samantha Moore - Valley Regional High School
2nd Place: Talk, Tasia Emmons - Branford High School
3rd Place: Multi-Level Drawing, Seth Coulombe - Haddam-Killingworth High School
Honorable Mention: Sect, Emmerson Goeden - Haddam-Killingworth High School
Ceramics
1st Place: Coil Vase in Blue, Josephine Small - Lyme-Old Lyme High School
2nd Place: Squirrel Feeder: To Those Seeking Asylum, Hannah LaBella - Middletown High School
3rd Place: Self Portrait in Alcove, Janna Graves - Lyme-Old Lyme High School
Honorable Mention: Expiry of Life, Lingxi Liu - Coginchaug Regional High School
Honorable Mention: Birch Tree Cup, Oz Ferris - Guilford High School
Honorable Mention: Art Nouveau Vase, Taylor Prue - Haddam-Killingworth High School
Honorable Mention: Something Spunky, Campbell Masse - Valley Regional High School
Honorable Mention: Livia, Eva Knoop - Valley Regional High School
Drawing
Digital Media
1st Place: The World Revolves, Carrie Edwards - Daniel Hand High School
2nd Place: The Aftermath, Fahad Syed - Middletown High School
3rd Place: HELLOhello?, Kristine Do - Branford High School
Honorable Mention: Snow man, Paul-lisa Brown - Middletown High School
1st Place: Pinboard, Brooke Konefel - Coginchaug Regional High School
2nd Place: Light in the Glass, Nola Slubowski - Lyme-Old Lyme High School
3rd Place: My First Catch, Simona Young - Middletown High School
Honorable Mention: A Lazy Day, Simona Young - Middletown High School
Honorable Mention: Arm, Ruby Cella - Coginchaug Regional High School
Honorable Mention: The Breakwater, Lauren DelGrego - Coginchaug Regional High School
Honorable Mention: Pluck, James Lahot Straub - Lyme-Old Lyme High School
Honorable Mention: Pipe, Ruby Cella - Coginchaug Regional High School
Jewelery
1st Place: Regalia of the Dead Pancreas, Anna Bothamley - East Hampton High School
Mixed Media
1st Place: Boston Market, Janna Graves - Lyme-Old Lyme High School
2nd Place: Star Pupil, Ryleigh Degnan - Haddam-Killingworth High School
3rd Place: Mind in Pieces, Erika Ponce - Westbrook High School
Honorable Mention: Textile Journey, Isabelle Weissberg - Coginchaug Regional High School
Honorable Mention: Growth and Memory, Shiloh Aceto - Coginchaug Regional High School
Painting
1st Place: Melancholy, Ana Cyr - Middletown High School
2nd Place: Sim, Simona Young - Middletown High School
3rd Place: Souvenirs, Sonya Xaypanya - Valley Regional High School
Honorable Mention: Lemon Pride, Paul-lisa Brown - Middletown High School
Honorable Mention: Reach, Gloria Conley - Lyme-Old Lyme High School
Honorable Mention: Portrait of the Hurley Family, Ana Cyr - Middletown High School
Honorable Mention: Flowers, Gloria Conley - Lyme-Old Lyme High School
Honorable Mention: Tiger Splatter, Elizabeth Steindl - Old Saybrook High School
Pastel
1st Place: Untitled, Idalis Lucero - North Branford High School
2nd Place: Overflowing Emotions, Aven Kellert - Three Rivers Middle College Magnet High School
3rd Place: chalk pastel landscape, Alayna Grenier - Daniel Hand High School
Honorable Mention: Childish Curiosity, Aven Kellert - Three Rivers Middle College Magnet High School
Photography
1st Place: American Daydream, Riley Swift - Daniel Hand High School
2nd Place: Abstractions, Dante Gartner - Haddam-Killingworth High School
3rd Place: Waiting for the Post, Tasia Emmons - Branford High School
Honorable Mention: Cherry Bomb, Sean Healy - Daniel Hand High School
Honorable Mention: Phoenix, Liam Rauscher - Haddam-Killingworth High School
Honorable Mention: Golden Blue, Quinn Goody - Daniel Hand High School
Honorable Mention: Untitled, Adam Stall-Ryan - Haddam-Killingworth High School
Honorable Mention: starlit silence, Olivia LaBonia - Branford High School
Honorable Mention: Blackberries with Kiwi, Conor Casagrande - Daniel Hand High School
Honorable Mention: The Seagull Among Shining Shells, Quinn Goody - Daniel Hand High School
Honorable Mention: Parallel Transit, Colin Fryer - Branford High School
Printmaking
1st Place: Venus, Planet of Love, Carrie Edwards- Daniel Hand High School
2nd Place: Baby, Ivy Zheng - Haddam-Killingworth High School
3rd Place: The Church of Epiphany, Frances Augur - Coginchaug Regional High School
Honorable Mention: Half Life, Nuala Saltus - Valley Regional High School
Honorable Mention: Vivacious, Stephanie Coleman - Haddam-Killingworth High School
Video
Sculpture
1st Place: Twisted Color, Churchill Roberts - Valley Regional High School
2nd Place: Insulin Dependent, Anna Bothamley - East Hampton High School
3rd Place: Convoluted, Collin Spaulding - Westbrook High School
1st Place: Stained Orange, Kristine Do - Branford High School
Honorable Mention: Michigan, Larson McLaughlin - Haddam-Killingworth High School
Honorable Mention: Collector, Oliver Avelange - Lyme-Old Lyme High School
Ruth Baxter Tagliatela Award
Juliana Bell, Birthright - Daniel Hand High School
Earl Grenville Killeen Founder's Award
Clare Stone - Daniel Hand High School
Judy Streeter Outstanding School Award
Ryan Bothamley
Coginchaug Regional High School Art Teacher