ASAA All-State Art

Departing Soul

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Title of Art Piece: Departing Soul
Category: Drawing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Nicole Breiting
School: Dimond High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement: We all have pondered the idea of what happens to our souls when they leave the body. The dramatic dark background with the smoke curling upward, makes us ponder.
Artwork Dimensions: 9×12
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Vigorous

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Title of Art Piece: Vigorous
Category: Drawing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Kelsey Kroon
School: Dimond High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: The bold ink matches the personality of the tiger: bold, unique, bright, and vigorous.
Artwork Dimensions: 9×12
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Sanz

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Title of Art Piece: Sanz
Category: Drawing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Ana Cuco
School: Dimond High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement: I danced ballet since I was four, but had to stop several years ago. Dancing is in my heart and I will wear those shoes again.
Artwork Dimensions: 9×12
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Alaska

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Title of Art Piece: Alaska
Category: Sculpture – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Mercedes Petrilla
School: East Anchorage High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement: My shoes are based on a local flavor theme. On each shoe is a different design that I would think would best describe Alaska’s most beautiful and cool qualities. For the top of the right shoe, I painted one of our fiercest predators, the Grizzly Bear. For the left shoe, I painted the northern lights, since seeing them is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. On the back, when both shoes are together, they spell out “Alaska” in gold letters.
Artwork Dimensions: 8 inches wide x 3 inches tall x 10.5 inches long
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Britannica

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Title of Art Piece: Britannica
Category: Sculpture – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: McKenzie Battles
School: North Pole High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: I’ve been interested in altered books for a while and wanted to try different forms. This piece was one of my first and I really like how it turned out. I had an image in my mind of how it would turn out and it came pretty close. It was very time consuming and took a while to cut the center of the pages out. The mask was made from the pages of the center as were the horns. The book itself is a used Britannica Encyclopedia.
Artwork Dimensions: 8.5 Wide x 13.75 High x 4.625 Wide
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In Memory of My Grandmother

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Title of Art Piece: In Memory of My Grandmother
Category: Sculpture – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Siinga Apassingok
School: Gambell
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement: At Yupik Days 2013, I was in the Miss Sivuqaq contest, and my mother drew these tattoos on my face, which she said were like the ones that were tattooed on my grandmother’s face. The flower on the forehead reminds me of the bluebells that grow everywhere around my grandmother’s house in the summer. The moon represents the peace in my family and the freedom that I am given, the woman’s knife my culture and tradition, the coffee cup the joys of my life that I drink up each day, the rabbit my childhood when my friends and I would play with a rabbit, and the heart my love for my family and my love for life.
Artwork Dimensions: 9″ x 12″
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Jefro

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Title of Art Piece: Jefro
Category: Sculpture – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Haley Rogers
School: Houston High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: My artwork was about transformation. I transformed a human face into something magical and intriguing to some. What I wanted to show was that life is to short to be boring and dull, and sometimes being wild is an extraordinary thing. So what better way to express that then to make the perfect party animal?
Artwork Dimensions: 13″ X 11″ X 4 3/4″
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Hatchet Design

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Title of Art Piece: Hatchet Design
Category: Drawing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Travis Kahahawai
School: Colony High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: This pristine ink drawing is of a hatchet with an environment with lots of small detail and lines.
Artwork Dimensions: 9 inches wide x 12 inches high
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Geometric Sky

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Title of Art Piece: Geometric Sky
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Morgan Porter
School: Dimond High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: I’m showing the energy of the sky as bright and dark geometric shapes. The sky relates to the geometric shapes of the city but shows a soft glow around the edges.
Artwork Dimensions: 9×12
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Swan

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Title of Art Piece: Swan
Category: Sculpture – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Elise Lowe
School: East Anchorage High School
Grade: 9th
Artist Statement: With slowness and deliberateness the piece evolved.
Artwork Dimensions: 9 X 5
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Fragmented Woman

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Title of Art Piece: Fragmented Woman
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Shannon Mckee
School: Dimond High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement: Our busy modern seems to pull us in different directions. This piece, with the busy colorful background representing society, pulls the woman in multiple directions, fragmenting her, warning us we cannot be all things to everyone.
Artwork Dimensions: 24 x 20
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Preflight Check

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Title of Art Piece: Preflight Check
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Rachel Lowrance
School: Dimond High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: Unique species of bird, combined with the expressionistic brush strokes, created the mood of almost ready for takeoff.
Artwork Dimensions: 24×24
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My Guardian

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Title of Art Piece: My Guardian
Category: Multicultural Art – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Maquire Levi
School: East Anchorage High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: Hawaiian people believe in animal spirit guardians. These animal guardians are passed down from generation to generation, through the mother’s side. The shark is a guardian that has been passed down fromm y mother’s side. It has been in her family since the start of Hawaiian civilization. I was inspired to draw the shark because the shark is now my guardian.
Artwork Dimensions: 15 inches wide x 10.5 tall
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Reading the Morning News

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Title of Art Piece: Reading the Morning News
Category: Mixed Media – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Sarah Crider
School: Thunder Mountain High School
Grade: 9th
Artist Statement: We had a project in our digital arts class – to transform life from classical painting into contemporary life. I chose the painting “At Breakfast” by Karl Maria Schuster. I thought it would be fun to show the old style lady reading news from the iPad. I used the classical painting with combination of photoshop tools (mixed media).
Artwork Dimensions: 8 inches wide x 10 inches high
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The Nations Praise

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Title of Art Piece: The Nations Praise
Category: Mixed Media – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Bethany Barrow
School: North Pole High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: I was inspired by Psalm 47:1-2, “Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy. For The Lord most high is King over all the earth.”
Artwork Dimensions: 16 X 20
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Nanuq

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Title of Art Piece: Nanuq
Category: Mixed Media – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Aboo Boolowon
School: Gambell
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: The polar bear represents our village. It is our school mascot. Our people in the village hunt the polar bear and use their skin and fur for clothing.
Artwork Dimensions: 16″ x 24″
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The Seal

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Title of Art Piece: The Seal
Category: Mixed Media – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Daisy Iyakitan
School: Gambell
Grade: 9th
Artist Statement: The seal is a very special animal to me and to our family. My mother uses the skin to make Eskimo dolls that she sells, and after the hunters catch the seals and bring them home, they cut them into pieces, put them into Ziploc bags, and share them with the elders and others. I love the shape and size of the seal, and how cute and fat they are.
Artwork Dimensions: 16″ x 24″
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Tones

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Title of Art Piece: Tones
Category: Mixed Media – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Lovina Steve
School: Stebbins
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: When I first saw this picture, I was pretty intimidated by how the girl was looking at the camera. I’m not good with faces, but I try my best to make it look realistic and perfect. I liked how the dress looked and the way it turned out at the end. I thought the dress was going to be hard to do because of the arm but it turned out okay. It was easy at first but then it started to get complicated, but in the end, it turned out better than I thought. The materials that we had to use were three shadings of paper and glue. I never worked with them ever since my sixth grade year. To me this artwork gives me strength to do my best and inspires me to keep going.
Artwork Dimensions: 9″ x 12″
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Ma Kai

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Title of Art Piece: Ma Kai
Category: Multicultural Art – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Alexa Schmidt
School: Nikiski High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: Who doesn’t love a sunset? They’re mesmerizing. One of the problems I had with this painting was the color. I wanted to capture something in this painting that only I could only see in actual sunsets. From my many layers of paint, finally came these pastel, matte-like colors.”Ma Kai” is Hawaiian for ocean. All my Mom’s family is from Hawaii and I spend a lot of time with them. Being Hawaiian is a unique part of my identity and I like my name Alexa Teivi Wah Hong Phki’ive Leimomilani Schmidt. My painting reminds me of a scene I would see in Hawaii and that is why I gave it the title “Ma Kai”.
Artwork Dimensions: 3′ X 5′
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Words. Words. Words.

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Title of Art Piece: Words. Words. Words.
Category: Mixed Media – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Olivia Rivera
School: Kodiak High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: As an artist, I view art as a key part of recovery. This piece in particular addresses a problem that isn’t necessarily subject matter in every day art pieces: self harm and body image. Where the throat is slit and the blood is pouring out, words are carved into the pastel repeating particular phrases that have been pointed at me directly: “fat” “chubby” “you’d be prettier if you were skinnier” and the absolute worse “you’re going to have to learn to deal with your problems like a regular person”. All of these words had affected me my first three years of high school to the point of unhealthy habits. However, visible at the bottom of the piece are flowers. Contrasted with the rough pastel work, these watercolor flowers are bordered with words of praise and encouragement I have also heard, words that have built me up and made me feel important. Words such as “talented” “don’t stop being you” and things to look forward to in life: “Arizona!” “Broadway” and most importantly “love”. All of these words within the flowers are reasons to keep on living. Not matter what life has thrown at me this art piece reminds me that nothing can drag me down, the words within the blood don’t affect me anymore and that there is so much in this world worth living for.
Artwork Dimensions: 24″ wide x 18″ high
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You’ve Got a Pretty Kind of Dirty Face

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Title of Art Piece: You’ve Got a Pretty Kind of Dirty Face
Category: Mixed Media – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Anastasia Skonberg
School: Kodiak High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: The song that these lyrics are from is “Robbers” by The 1975. I decided to use these specific lyrics because of what the song is about. Two people are falling in love but being destructive at the same time. Toxic Love if you will. She’s less innocent than she looks, and their love is less innocent than it appears to be. I also like the way the dirtiness of the newspaper and paint drips look against the magazine letter words, making it appear dirty and disorganized, like toxic love.
Artwork Dimensions: 11″ high x 14″ wide
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Sand Hill Crane

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Title of Art Piece: Sand Hill Crane
Category: Mixed Media – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Grace Kann
School: Homer High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: I was interested in creating cut paper art after seeing a book about the art form. Because of my mom’s love for the Sand Hill Cranes that we have here in Homer, I chose to create this piece. Most of my work is based on the animals that can be found in Alaska.
Artwork Dimensions: 18 x 24
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Rebirth

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Title of Art Piece: Rebirth
Category: Mixed Media – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Ryan Branson
School: Kodiak High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: This piece was created to express my perception of death. It is a clay mask created by pushing clay into a plaster mold of my face and then sculpted to achieve the finer details. When I die, my soul will pass on but my physical body will remain a part of the earth. My flesh will become the dirt beneath us, symbolized by the clay by which it is made. The antlers represent the animals that will benefit from my death as well as the flowers who will absorb nutrients from my decomposing body. through death, I will become one with mother earth.
Artwork Dimensions: Original 11inx17in (upload 8×10)
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Owl Carving

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Title of Art Piece: Owl Carving
Category: Multicultural Art – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Kris Tocktoo
School: Shishmaref
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: I made this carving because I wanted to make something new and I think the owl is an interesting animal because I’ve seen it since I was a kid.
Artwork Dimensions: 2″ x 3″
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Mitten Ornament

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Title of Art Piece: Mitten Ornament
Category: Multicultural Art – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Kelly Ningeulook
School: Shishmaref
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement: I made it because I wanted to try something new other than the things I usually make.
Artwork Dimensions: Each mitten is 3″ x 2″
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Beaver Skin Mittens

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Title of Art Piece: Beaver Skin Mittens
Category: Multicultural Art – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Megan Nayokpuk
School: Shishmaref
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: I made my mittens because of my culture; it is very important to me. All women should know how to sew, and men should know how to carve. My great grandmother, Elizabeth Nayokpuk, inspires me to sew. I hope to learn as much as I can from her as I grow.
Artwork Dimensions: Each mitten is 7.5″ x 5.5″
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Deconstructing Perfection

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Title of Art Piece: Deconstructing Perfection
Category: Mixed Media – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Kathryn Krupski
School: East Anchorage High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: It is our job to destroy what we’ve created.
Artwork Dimensions: 12 X 18
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Let the Love Shine

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Title of Art Piece: Let the Love Shine
Category: Mixed Media – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Cheyenne Geffken
School: Palmer High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: I created this piece with the ideas of diversity and love as well as peace and acceptance in mind. I would love to see a world in the near future that exemplifies these things–specifically acceptance of others’ cultures and lifestyles and worldwide peace. I believe that my generation is the one that can help bring our world into a greater state of being as a whole and I hoped to capture this mindset in my work in a fun, eye-catching way. Our world is not perfect, but we need to see the beauty in it.
Artwork Dimensions: 20″ high x 30″ wide
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Heart Trauma

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Title of Art Piece: Heart Trauma
Category: Mixed Media – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Samuel Bernitz
School: West Anchorage High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: I am an International Baccalaureate student at West High School. I made this piece as part of my focus portfolio, my focus being heart related imagery and symbolism through the use of emphasis. The heart is a graphite drawing mounted on foam core board with a combination of acrylic paint, gesso, and gravel for the blood, the piece was finished off with an exact-o knife jabbed into the board. The heart, commonly associated with the soul of a person, is being disrupted by the inorganic and metallic knife; the disruption brings out an extreme reaction from the heart. The piece is also largely symbolic of my own experiences with open heart surgery, and other invasive procedures. It displays the feelings of invasion, pain, and trauma related to open heart surgery.
Artwork Dimensions: 12″ Wide X 9.75″ High
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Black Hole

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Title of Art Piece: Black Hole
Category: Mixed Media – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Katelyn Foster
School: Colony High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: This is an experimental piece inspired by the movie “Interstellar;” it was painted with a mix of bubble soap, food coloring and few drops of acrylic paint.
Artwork Dimensions: 9 inches wide by 12 inches high
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Cellophane

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Title of Art Piece: Cellophane
Category: Mixed Media – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Denali Thomas
School: Colony High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: This is a charcoal and acrylic piece about being lonely and different. It is a representation of the fear of rejection.
Artwork Dimensions: 9 inches high by 12 inches eide
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Colors

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Title of Art Piece: Colors
Category: Mixed Media – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Siinga Apassingok
School: Gambell
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement: In this piece, I wanted to show the people of my community the way I view myself, and my view of the world with colors. I view myself and my world a bit differently, and I would like people to know that. The fox is special to me because we use the fur for the outside lining of the hood of our traditional clothing.
Artwork Dimensions: 16″ x 24″
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August

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Title of Art Piece: August
Category: Mixed Media – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Lauren O’Brien
School: Nikiski High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: My piece “August” was inspired by Maine in Autumn. I chose Maine because it is where I spent most of my childhood.
Artwork Dimensions: 9X12 INches
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Cherry Blossoms

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Title of Art Piece: Cherry Blossoms
Category: Mixed Media – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Delaney Jensen
School: Nikiski High School
Grade: 9th
Artist Statement: For my piece I liked the fact that cherry blossoms and skeleton hands were so opposed. One of them represents death and the other life. I also like the simplicity of colors in the piece.
Artwork Dimensions: 12X12
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Expressive Self Portrait

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Title of Art Piece: Expressive Self Portrait
Category: Mixed Media – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Chelsea Lind
School: Homer High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: Expressive Self Portrait
Artwork Dimensions: 12 inches x 9 inches
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A Sticky Mess

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Title of Art Piece: A Sticky Mess
Category: Mixed Media – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Annika Fincher
School: Kodiak High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: “A Sticky Mess” is a portrayal of one opinion of the viscid catastrophe occurring in the Middle East. Even though the wars are not fought on American soil, their aftermath affects us all.

When people initially see my project, their first reaction is always “That’s so gross!” When I tell them about the symbolism behind the piece, they say, “It’s still disgusting”. What’s disgusting? The chewed gum? War is disgusting. Afghanistan. Pakistan. Libya. Yemen. Iraq. Syria. People are dying. The death toll is rising and people are horrified by gum.

Artwork Dimensions: 16 ¼” long x 12” wide x 8” high
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Part of the Wild

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Title of Art Piece: Part of the Wild
Category: Jewelry / Metalsmithing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Geoffrey Dickfoss
School: East Anchorage High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: This piece is a sort of representation of the extension of my love for the out doors. So many ideas went through my head but this is the one that stuck out and it came out just as I wanted.
Artwork Dimensions: 1 x 1
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Sweat Soldered Pendant

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Title of Art Piece: Sweat Soldered Pendant
Category: Jewelry / Metalsmithing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Michael Cebrian
School: West Valley High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: Pierced design from brass soldered on to copper and domed. I really enjoyed making this but cutting out the leaves was difficult because they are so small.
Artwork Dimensions: 1.5 round
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3 Mugs

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Title of Art Piece: 3 Mugs
Category: Ceramics – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Fillip Reutov
School: Homer High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: I am a ceramic artist in the Homer High School. All the pottery I’ve done so far is throwing. Most of my pieces I create are inspired by the other student artists, or ceramic magazines. When I throw, I take my time on every single pot, making sure its centered, smooth, and the pots thickness is thin and consistent. When ever I finish my pot I always use a piece of soft plastic to smooth out the rim and make it look nice.
Artwork Dimensions: 5.5 Inches High X 6 Inches Wide
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Fall Bloom

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Title of Art Piece: Fall Bloom
Category: Jewelry / Metalsmithing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Taylor Poirrier
School: North Pole High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: I made the chain myself, by hammering the links flat. I also fused the glass together to showcase the different fall colors. I added the wire swirls to accent the shape of the piece.
Artwork Dimensions: 2 inches high and 2 inches wide
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Cat Odyssey

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Title of Art Piece: Cat Odyssey
Category: Communication Arts / Graphic Design – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Liana Porter-Bell
School: Juneau-Douglas High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: My cat starring in one of my favorite science-fiction movies, 2001: A Space Oddysey. I did it in Paint.net.
Artwork Dimensions: 3.9MB png, 3000 x 2208 pixels
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Ecliptic Reflections

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Title of Art Piece: Ecliptic Reflections
Category: Photography – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Ryan Branson
School: Kodiak High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: Ecliptic reflections
This photo was taken during the October Solar Eclipse using the screen of a welding helmet to allow visibility of the sun, which also reflected the trees towering behind me. With the creative use of this device, I was able to capture both lunar and solar aspects of the sky, also featuring its relation to planet earth with trees.
Artwork Dimensions: original 11inx17in
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Spellbound

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Title of Art Piece: Spellbound
Category: Photography – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Ryan Branson
School: Kodiak High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: Spellbound
My fascination with the concious manipulation of energy drove me to photograph pyromancy; the manipulation of fire or heat. The photo was taken in the woods where the trees formed a gap, letting a warm ray of light shine down on to my model. To capture the power of manipulation of energies, I placed a staff in one hand to symbolize her control over the natural, physical world and a flame in the other to symbolize her dominion over every. Her piercing skyward gaze was enhanced by brightening up her irises to fully capture the divine knowledge this individual possesses, as well as the bolding of her facial features.
Artwork Dimensions: original 13inx19in (upload 8×10)
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Universal Reflections

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Title of Art Piece: Universal Reflections
Category: Photography – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Ryan Branson
School: Kodiak High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: This photo was taken as part of a photo challenge in which I was to creatively photograph a reflection without using a mirror. I captured the reflection of my hands hovering over the glassy water of Lake Gertrude on a cloudy day. The blue sky and clouds are visibly reflected and my hands cast shadows distorted by the slight ripples in the water.With much experimentation, I decided to add these shapes; the vesica piscis (right) symbolizing feminine energy consisting of curved lines with a flower in the center, the tetrahedron (left) symbolizing masculine energy characterized by defined points and straight lines, and finally Metatron’s cube (center) which represents the energies coming together and forming cosmic universal energy. My intention for this photo was to symbolize the relationship humans have with the universe and these energies and how each individual human embodies both energies to a certain extent.

Artwork Dimensions: original 14inx25in (upload 8×10)
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Fate’s Path

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Title of Art Piece: Fate’s Path
Category: Photography – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Hannah Boleen
School: Kodiak High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: Fate’s Path
For my advanced photography class final my teacher challenged us to shoot six photos centralizing around something we needed to improve on, and I chose to do photos that were completely unedited, or “Straight Out of Camera”. I started to plan my photos out, but suddenly realized that was wrong. Sometimes it is the absence of thought and planning that produces the best images because those are the photos that capture life in its most pure and candid form. So I decided to step back and observe as well as experience life around me, waiting for those once in a lifetime moments that need no help to be beautiful. I carried my camera with me everywhere, and was on a walk with my Dad when I captured this photo. We came across a tiny path splashed perfectly with a halo of light, and I knew its natural beauty was a perfect for my theme. I gave careful thought to my focus point, and after many tries, finally managed to get the right depth of field where the middle of the path, bush, and foreground trees were all in focus while the beginning and end of the path were nicely out of focus. I titled it “Fate’s Path” because like my photo, life can often have blurry futures and fading past, but in the present, hopefully, it is bright and clear. I loved that the photo embodied my theme both literally, as well as symbolically, because it reminded me that life is more than just the physical, or more than just emotions. Life is the beautiful mixture of both and I was able to, even briefly, capture that.
Artwork Dimensions: Original 14inx21in (upload 7.4×11)
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Tinkerbell

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Title of Art Piece: Tinkerbell
Category: Photography – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Hannah Boleen
School: Kodiak High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: Tinkerbell
Lighting is my favorite part of photography. I love the impact lighting has on a photo’s underlying emotion, and for “Tinkerbell” I was trying to highlight lighting that was the main focus of the photo. I set up a low powered flash with a yellow gel in front of my model so that it was hidden by her body and positioned her in a sassy pose I imagined Tinkerbell in. Then I set up two low powered flashes with blue and green gels in a soft box to create my contrasting background. Separately I took photos of sparkles being thrown to add to the wings and baby powder puffs to blend with the background to make it look foggy. By merging all of these elements together, I was able to create a photo that was intriguing because of the dynamic lighting.
Artwork Dimensions: Original 14inx21in (upload 7.4×11)
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Scarlett Dress

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Title of Art Piece: Scarlett Dress
Category: Photography – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Jenna DiFolco
School: West Valley High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement: An Alaskan’s winter in Hawaii.
Artwork Dimensions: Digital Photo…
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Wintertide

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Title of Art Piece: Wintertide
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Sasha Gorda
School: West Valley High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement: Painting is done in acrylics over paper to give texture. I was trying to capture the unusual low light in Fairbanks during the wintertime.
Artwork Dimensions: 10 x 7.5
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Connected

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Title of Art Piece: “Connected”
Category: Photography – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: McKenna Lesmann
School: Thunder Mountain High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: We had a project in our digital arts class to take a panoramic picture and turn it into a planet. I was inspired by nature and the way all things are connected. My dog got into the picture by accident, but it turned out even better.
Artwork Dimensions: 10 inches x 9.5 inches
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The Butte

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Title of Art Piece: The Butte
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Katelyn Clark
School: Colony High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: This piece is about the first time I climbed the Butte. I had such a good time with my friends. Its a memory I’ll have forever. It was painted with liquid watercolor.
Artwork Dimensions: 11 inches high x 14 inches wide
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Time is of the Essence

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Title of Art Piece: Time is of the Essence
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Catrina Nugent
School: Colony High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement: The meaning behind this is basically how “time is of the essence” and as you grow older, you have less and less time to do the things you love.
Artwork Dimensions: 20 inches high x 14 inches wide
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Branch Out

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Title of Art Piece: Branch Out
Category: Photography – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Sarah Gray
School: West Valley High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: When searching for the future, remember that beauty lies in the small things.
Artwork Dimensions: Digital Photo…
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Untitled

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Title of Art Piece: Untitled
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Autumn Blodgett
School: Houston High School
Grade: 9th
Artist Statement: The idea of my painting came from watching my friend swimming, and I thought their hair looked like a flame in water. It inspired me to paint something using vibrant, bold colors,
Artwork Dimensions: 13 3/4″ X 22
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Sunflowers

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Title of Art Piece: Sunflowers
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Wilfred Katcheak
School: Stebbins
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: I was inspired to make this painting after looking at Vincent van Gogh’s sunflowers. I used watercolor paint and since we had just learned about complimentary colors, I used purple and yellow colors so they would pop. At the time it was November and I wanted everything bright.
Artwork Dimensions: 12″ x 9″
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That’s Not My Name!

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Title of Art Piece: That’s Not My Name!
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Cindy Limchantha
School: Kodiak High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: This piece was meant to portray feelings of frustration that were meant to be hidden but were so strong that they became extremely visible to others and burned those that got too close.
Artwork Dimensions: 18″ wide x 23″ high
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Ambers Truth

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Title of Art Piece: Ambers Truth
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Amber Bennett
School: Service High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: Creating art is my ultimate escape from the daily stresses and struggles of this adventure many call life. Ever since I can remember, I have loved art and color. Something about color, whether I’m simply observing color, wearing color, or working with color, sparks some sort of motivational force within me. I am my own worst enemy when it comes to creating things. I have always been very doubtful in my ability to use color in a way I can feel positive about. In my experience with creating art, I’ve never successfully been able to recreate myself on any sort of medium, until this piece. Creating this portrait allowed me to separate myself from all of the negative energy that manifests when I regularly make art. I wanted to look at my first self portrait and be able to absorb positive energy for once. Working with color has allowed me to put all of the self deprecating thoughts and negative energy I have aside, long enough to create something I can feel positive about.
Artwork Dimensions: 18″High X 24″Wide
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Sun and Moon

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Title of Art Piece: Sun and Moon
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Jolie Magelky
School: Lathrop High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement: I usually work a lot more loosely. In most of my work, I let the watercolor flow and do what it wants, but in this piece I drew it all out with pencil first, and then came back with the gouache and laid in the color very meticulously. I chose to use a different monochromatic color scheme for each pattern, so that the overall effect of the patterns did not detract from the composition.
Artwork Dimensions: 16″ x 18″ Gouache on paper
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Pseudo-Self

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Title of Art Piece: Pseudo-Self
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Jori Reynolds-Dovell
School: East Anchorage High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: In naming this piece, I had to think long and hard. The first question I broached within myself was, “What does this piece of art I have created mean to me?” I took the picture I used as a reference at the bus stop with no prior thought or intention to create art. If I was being totally honest, it didn’t mean much to me. Not enough for the naming process to be easy for me. But I had created this piece, and put a part of myself into it. The piece deserved a name. Once I named it Psuedo Self, I found it meant more than I’d originally thought. With the amount of layering and redesign I’d done, it held a shroud of mystery. A light-eyed, smiling girl with no connections to reality, I found I related to the piece more than I did the face I saw in the mirror every day.
Artwork Dimensions: 18 inches wide x 22 inches tall
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Marley Bug

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Title of Art Piece: Marley Bug
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Abby Mampreian
School: Eagle River High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement: I have recently began dedicating my free time to art, ever since I was a little girl, I have shown a talent in art, but never thought anything of art other than a class I can take as an elective in school. I consider myself a visual artist do to my lack of skill in creatively and my enjoyment in drawing and painting things that I see in front of me. I always put all of my effort in my artwork and have always been proud of what I get out of it.
Artwork Dimensions: 24 Inches High x 18 Inches Wide
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Peacock

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Title of Art Piece: Peacock
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Fredrick Ozenna
School: Stebbins
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: I was inspired to make this artwork because I like how the colors fit in with the bird. For this artwork, I used watercolor paint, a paintbrush, and a cup of water. I freehanded this painting by looking at the image and using my insights to paint the bird. This artwork doesn’t really mean anything to me, but the colors of my artwork make me feel as if I’m in my own world.
Artwork Dimensions: 12″ x 9″
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Raven

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Title of Art Piece: Raven
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Tayalur Moore
School: Nikiski High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement: I thought of the idea for this painting right after something pretty devastating, to a teenage girl, happened. I was feeling down and angry and I think you defiantly get that feel when you look at it.
Artwork Dimensions: 12X9inches
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Owl Eyes

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Title of Art Piece: Owl Eyes
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Marissa Lind
School: Homer High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: This painting is based on a dream that I’ve had since I was a child, based on Aleut mythology.
Artwork Dimensions: 18 x 24
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Flower Power

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Title of Art Piece: Flower Power
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Amber Hinton-Logan
School: Lathrop High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: I am finishing up my portfolio for AP Art, and my concentration theme is “Images of Femininity and Sensitivity.” I try to play with society’s ideas of what makes a person seem “feminine” and/or “sensitive,” and how those two things are related.
Artwork Dimensions: 21″ high x 13.75 ” wide
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Happy, Lucky

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Title of Art Piece: Happy, Lucky
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Margaret May
School: North Pole High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: This painting was inspired by my lovely sister, who lives near Grand Teton National Park. She photographs and sends often images of the incredible wildlife and scenery which surround her. She is especially fascinated by groups of snow-covered bison; with their unique and entertaining facial expressions and strikingly large stature.
The main bison depicted, affectionately dubbed Ralph, provided an excellent opportunity to explore new methods of color, texture, and technique.
This work, painted and gifted to my sister for Christmas 2014, is titled “Happy, Lucky” for how I, the artist, felt when I was given the opportunity and the experience of doing something positive and constructive for a much loved member of my incredible family.
Artwork Dimensions: 12×24
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Ugly Selfies Series, #3

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Title of Art Piece: Ugly Selfies Series, #3
Category: Drawing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Halley Turman
School: Juneau-Douglas High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: Still in the works…
Artwork Dimensions: 12 inches high by 9 inches wide
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TMHS Falcon

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Title of Art Piece: TMHS Falcon
Category: Drawing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Amanda Gassan
School: Thunder Mountain High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: During five years of our school, we always used somebody’s falcon, taken from the internet. This year I created a falcon that became our school logo. I am very proud! To create the falcon, I merged three different reference photographs together and based on them drew the falcon image completely the way I wanted. I traced my new falcon creation, added color and incorporated thunder and lightning because we are Thunder Mountain High School! I had two layer font – one was white with a glow and the other was black.
Artwork Dimensions: 10 inches high x 8 inches wide
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Miranda

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Title of Art Piece: Miranda
Category: Drawing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Miranda Delkittie
School: Nondalton
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: I wanted to experiment with a type of art I was unfamiliar with, so I decided to challenge myself with a self-portrait.
Artwork Dimensions: 8 x 12
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Going Out

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Title of Art Piece: Going Out
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Karen Reed
School: Palmer High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: This portrait of a couple is about young, idyllic love. A natural setting is used to create a mood of peace and underpins the beauty and primal nature of love. Bright, warm colors mimic the innocence and joy of the couple which is further expressed through the gentle embrace and facial expressions of the couple. While perfectly content, the couples themselves are not perfect, showing their individuality and imperfections which are part of human nature. An influence of this piece is Arnolfini Marriage by Jan van Eyk. The proportions of the couple were drawn through observation with the aid of a reference photo without the use of a projector or grid system.
Artwork Dimensions: 36″ high x 24″ wide
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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Title of Art Piece: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Category: Drawing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Lily Grey
School: Eagle River High School
Grade: 9th
Artist Statement: I think that the ability to capture a moment by creating a drawing is an amazing experience. I love to sit down a let my emotions out through a pencil. My drawings usually reflect myself in some way or another.
Artwork Dimensions: 11 Inches High x 8 Inches Wide
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Time Goes By

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Title of Art Piece: Time Goes By
Category: Drawing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Liv Pedersen
School: Eagle River High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: People tend to not appreciate the time and beauty they have. Time is what we want the most, but it’s also what we use the worst.
Artwork Dimensions: 15 Inches High x 10 Inches Wide
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Hunger

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Title of Art Piece: Hunger
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Leona Sawyer
School: North Pole High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: My inspiration for this painting was political and world problems. I chose to have a green background to represent wealth and prosperity since a large part of the world is wealthy. The starving children are reaching out to a wealthy world who ignore them. I made their faces very plane since most people do not really know that there are children starving like this. They are the faceless.
Artwork Dimensions: 18 inches High X 24 inches Wide
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Floridian Adventures

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Title of Art Piece: Floridian Adventures
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Miranda Bay
School: Eagle River High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: I am a 16 year old junior at Eagle River HIgh school, I am in Art I and Pottery. I have a strong interest in art and making it a main part of my life. I enjoy painting, drawing, and pottery the most and I plan to keep exploring art as I go through the rest of high school and into college.
Artwork Dimensions: 16 Inches High x 20 Inches Wide
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Autumn in the Village

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Title of Art Piece: Autumn in the Village
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Grace Atchak
School: Stebbins
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: As an art class assignment, I was to paint this little part of my hometown. For my first time painting a landscape, I think I did pretty well. I used different types of brushes to get different lining and shading. My favorite part about this painting is the grass because it reminds me of fall. My inspiration for this painting is that I never thought I’d learn to paint.
Artwork Dimensions: 9″ x 12″
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Its Just an Octopus

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Title of Art Piece: “Its Just an Octopus”
Category: Drawing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Megan Walker
School: Valdez High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: I am intrigued with exotic colors and textures, especially in sea life creatures such as the octopus.
Artwork Dimensions: 8″x10″
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Wolf

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Title of Art Piece: Wolf
Category: Drawing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Jamie Yerkes
School: Nikiski High School
Grade: 9th
Artist Statement: I chose to make my portrait of a wolf because I was attracted to the wolf’s qualities. Its fearlessness and brave attributes. Plus, it’s a great representation of an Alaskan animal.
Artwork Dimensions: 9X12 inches
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Indigo Dreams

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Title of Art Piece: Indigo Dreams
Category: Drawing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Erin Buhler
School: Thunder Mountain High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: This piece is a combination of who I am, what I like. I love the color purple and chose this indigo color to go with the dark graphite. The decorative line work shows a part of me that is not tangible.
Artwork Dimensions: 18″ high X 24″ wide
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Realistic Self Portrait

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Title of Art Piece: Realistic Self Portrait
Category: Drawing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Rebecca Seneff
School: Homer High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: This is my realistic self portrait, based on exactly what I see of myself from the outside.
Artwork Dimensions: 12 x 9
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Friendship

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Title of Art Piece: Friendship
Category: Drawing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Sophie Boerner
School: Dimond High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: This was drawn from a selfie my friend took of us one winter evening.
Artwork Dimensions: 12×18″
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Mountain View

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Title of Art Piece: Mountain View
Category: Ceramics – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Rachel Burchard
School: Lathrop High school
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: I’ve always enjoyed working on the wheel, I started throwing with small pieces of clay and gradually increasing the larger pieces. The most I’ve thrown on the wheel is about 25 pounds. My favorite thing to do is make large vases, they’re always a challenge especially when the clay is fresh and soft. I love throwing tall cylinders and use a rib to shape them into vases with large bodies and small necks. This piece in particular was made with black clay, the white glaze makes a really cool effect following with the dark blue glaze on the inside of the vase, this piece is about 13 pounds.
Artwork Dimensions: 11 inches high x 10 inches wide
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Patterned Pots

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Title of Art Piece: Patterned Pots
Category: Ceramics – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Hunter McLean
School: Lathrop High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: I started Ceramics my sophomore year and have enjoyed it ever since. I Carved out the rubber press stencil for these pieces and have been using it on most pieces I’ve made. I got the idea for the texture on the purple piece from seeing other professional artists adding texture to pieces to bring out more in the piece.
Artwork Dimensions: 5 inches high X 4 1/2 inches wide
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Dandelions

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Title of Art Piece: Dandelions
Category: Drawing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: MiAnna Dillon
School: Lathrop High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: I used colored pencil to try create the light and airy feeling of the dandelion fluff. I enjoy texture, and trying to create the appearance of many textures with just colored pencil.
Artwork Dimensions: 8.5″high x 4.5″ wide
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A Birch Walk

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Title of Art Piece: A Birch Walk
Category: Multicultural Art – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Ruby Woodings
School: Palmer High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement: The leaves have all gone. The path is bare except for her. The air is cool and crisp. She is headed somewhere.
A walk to remember, a story to tell. The places she went, in a snowless December.
Colors of nature, are beheld on this drum. The face of the girl, is a mystery to some.
The birches are bare, for snow to come. The path leads on, to a place somewhere.
Artwork Dimensions: 26″ high x 18″ wide
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Inner Beast

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Title of Art Piece: Inner Beast
Category: Ceramics – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Aunesty Loyer
School: Palmer High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: The inspiration for the art piece “Inner Beast” was derived from my love of Alaskan wildlife, my favorite creature being the wolf. Wolves are intelligent and loyal pack members, yet fearsome at the same time. For these reasons I wanted to convey to the viewer that wolves are wild creatures that deserve our respect.
I created the candle holder into the shape of a wolf’s head while its eyes and mouth were carved out to reveal the light of the candle within, or “the wild side that burns within every wolf.” The menacing snarl of the mouth, slanted eyes, and flattened ears helps the viewer to understand that a wolf reveals its inner primordial beast when it is hunting, or feels threatened. The colorations of the candle holder itself were created through the process of raku firing. This process created dark, earthy tones, in the fur thus giving off a natural yet somewhat dark feeling. The licks of red help emphasize the inner rage of the wolf which is now being expressed outwardly. The fur textures were created with the use of a fettling knife, cutting multiple strands of hair to produce what appears to be a thick coat of fur.
Artwork Dimensions: 3″ high x 8″ wide x 5″ deep
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A Special Day

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Title of Art Piece: A Special Day
Category: Mixed Media – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Ollin Apatiki
School: Gambell
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: During a special day last summer, I was riding along the beach. I stopped at the mountain, and it was so quiet and peaceful. A couple minutes later I heard many birds. I looked up and saw swarms of puffins leaving the cracks of the rocks on the mountain and flying above me. Soon, there were hundreds of them, and the air was filled with their beautiful sounds. The sun was setting and for a while, it was just me and the puffins.
Artwork Dimensions: 15″ x 24″
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Caught In Time

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Title of Art Piece: Caught In Time
Category: Drawing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Megan Dallas
School: Thunder Mountain High School
Grade: 9th
Artist Statement: I love Fast Pitch! My assignment was to create a self portrait showing something about my personality. “I am caught”.
Artwork Dimensions: 18″ high X 24″ wide
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Storm At Sea

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Title of Art Piece: Storm At Sea
Category: Ceramics – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Jessie Lamson
School: Thunder Mountain High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement: I settled with an ocean theme after being inspired by a swirling wave pattern I doodled in class. I chose the setting of an anchor and a lighthouse to show the strength of the wind against the battering of a storm of emotions. The lighthouse search light guided lost sailors in the night. I also couldn’t get an aircraft carrier to turn out quite right:)
Artwork Dimensions: 5″ Diameter X 10″ height
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Peace Wolf

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Title of Art Piece: Peace Wolf
Category: Ceramics – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Carissa Armstrong
School: Thunder Mountain High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement: Generally I am a “hippy”. I love animals and I love nature. I especially love color. I tried to put as much color and designs as possible on this mask to merge my personality in stone. The wolf is one of my favorite animals so I chose this animal to be the base of my mask and decorated with flowers, “free” lines, a peace sign and plenty of color.
Artwork Dimensions: 13.5″ length, 12″ wide, 5″ tall
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Dragon Cups

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Title of Art Piece: Dragon Cups
Category: Ceramics – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Emily Coble
School: Homer High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement: For this project I was inspired by stackable cups that had a continuous image on them. I am interested in how to make something that is decorative and functional. I enjoy working repetitive patterns and textures.
Artwork Dimensions: 4.5 Inches High X 5.5 Inches Wide
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Bolex

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Title of Art Piece: Bolex
Category: Drawing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Joseph Carr
School: Mat-Su Central
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: I adore equipment and mechanisms from past eras. One of my many passions is collecting vintage film cameras and projectors. The pride and joy of my collection would be my beautiful Pollard Bolex 16mm camera. To me the precision, mechanical and aesthetic achievement represents an old beauty that combines form and functionality in a totally analog system of synchronized beauty. This rendering is my attempt to convey its intrinsic form and beauty.
Artwork Dimensions: 11 in High x 17 in Wide
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Form

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Title of Art Piece: Form
Category: Ceramics – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Katelyn Allen
School: Dimond High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: People can form emotional attachments to objects.
Artwork Dimensions: 7x9x4
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Change of Tides

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Title of Art Piece: Change of Tides
Category: Drawing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Emma Zayon
School: Lathrop High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: I enjoy drawing with colored pencils on dark paper because of the contrast and intensity of color I feel I can achieve. This piece is about the seasons changing from Winter to Spring.
Artwork Dimensions: 8″ high x 16″ wide
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50’s Inspired Torso

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Title of Art Piece: 50’s Inspired Torso
Category: Ceramics – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Sierra DeLoach
School: Homer High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: Art that takes the human form or expresses humanity through figurative shape connects our reality to a bigger idea. Placing a human trait in a natural element provides bases in which to relate ourselves to the natural world in a way that is usually lost in the Age of Technology.
As an artist, I have opted to explore human emotion. Even in drawings, the concept of human feeling and behavior has always been intriguing. Starting simple, I have begun to add as many realistic details as I can, while still retaining an almost cartoon-like feel. I have built a connection between the techniques I learned in drawing and its 3D counterparts, particularly a knack for proportion. I like adding natural elements to human figures, for example, butterfly wings or landscapes.
I use a variety of techniques to build my pieces, including coils, slabs, carving, and attaching separate pieces into a singular object. I prefer to keep smaller details off the main piece, and glaze them on later. I use a wide variety of low temperature glazes to achieve vivid colors.
Artwork Dimensions: 7 Inches High X 15 Inches wide
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Birdman

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(Honorable Mention – Jewelry / Metalsmithing)

Title of Art Piece: Birdman
Category: Jewelry / Metalsmithing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Hayden Chase
School: Homer High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: I love taking old metal and recreating it into art.
Artwork Dimensions: 24.5 Inches High X 14 Inches Wide
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Laurel Wreath

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(Honorable Mention – Mixed Media)

Title of Art Piece: Laurel Wreath
Category: Mixed Media – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Savanah Owen
School: Dimond High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: I was trying to make shadows become feathery texture on the clay to strengthen the forms hovering just above the surface.
Artwork Dimensions: 12x12x7
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Logo for Latitude 58

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(Honorable Mention – Communication Arts / Graphic Design)

Title of Art Piece: Logo for Latitude 58
Category: Communication Arts / Graphic Design – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Rhyann Ashcroft
School: Thunder Mountain High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: This piece was inspired by one of our teachers, Timm Henry, who asked for a logo design for his photography website. Mr. Henry has helped us with a lot of activities by taking awesome pictures, this is a sign for gratitude.My design is a lens from a camera that is capturing Alaskan Scenery, the aurora borealis and ice. To create it, I used Adobe Illustrator, changed a mountain into ice by using the color gradient tool, and shined it up with the sun flare tool. I feel that this represents the hidden beauty of Alaska that reflects in a photographer’s eyes.

Artwork Dimensions: 10 inches x 6 inches
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Reflections to Ponder

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(Honorable Mention – Photography)

Title of Art Piece: Reflections to Ponder
Category: Photography – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Kris Voronin
School: West Valley High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: Glass has many angles that can be used to add to a photo, window frames themselves are their own frame to the world, no matter where you stand around a photo it acts as if its holding a picture of the world outside making it able to leave many questions to the spectator. Having my subject, Cassidy lean on the wall as if there was nothing allowed me to use the frame as if she was part of the photo, creating a frame within the frame.
Artwork Dimensions: N/A
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Faces on the Street

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(Honorable Mention – Sculpture)

Title of Art Piece: Faces on the Street
Category: Sculpture – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Esme Brudie
School: West Anchorage High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: Each of these four faces were sculpted in my advanced art class. I sculpted them as a study of different facial expressions and personalities that I have encountered, thus the title of “Faces on the Street”.
Artwork Dimensions: 2 inches high X 1.5 inches wide each
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Relatively Major

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(Honorable Mention – Painting)

Title of Art Piece: Relatively Major
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Merryn Daniel
School: West Anchorage High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: This painting is part of my IB Art portfolio for a high school class, which has a focus on human anatomy transforming into inanimate objects. This piece, a human spine morphing into piano keys, was inspired by the necessity of music in my life. Just like a spine, piano is an integral part of my being. I believe the idea within this painting, the importance of music, applies not only to me, but to anyone who has a deep connection to music. The title — Relatively Major — is a reference to a music term but also implies the message conveyed by the painting.
Artwork Dimensions: 10″ High X 5.5″ Wide
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Eskimo Pride

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(Honorable Mention – Multicultural Art)

Title of Art Piece: Eskimo Pride
Category: Multicultural Art – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Keira Kiyutelluk
School: East Anchorage High School
Grade: 9th
Artist Statement: I did this because Eskimo Dancing is my life and basketball too is my life. So the man is drumming but you can’t see him. The Eskimo is dancing. They are outside because it is traditional sometimes to be outside, but they dance in the gym most times.
Artwork Dimensions: 5.5 x 7.5
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Elrond

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(Honorable Mention – Drawing)

Title of Art Piece: Elrond
Category: Drawing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Aidan Barlow-Diemer
School: West Anchorage High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: I am an IB Baccalaureate developing a portfolio on portraits of Alaskan Wildlife. The drawing of this wood bison derived from a photo that I took at the Wildlife Conservation Center. I free handed the outline of the bison and then used stippling to finish the image. This piece is important to me because it represents a piece of Alaskan culture and environment; the Wildlife Conservation Center’s annual release of wood bison into the interior of Alaska has a significance in representing our state’s relationship with our unique environment and wildlife.
Artwork Dimensions: 24 inches high x 20 inches wide
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Copper Pin

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(3rd Place – Jewelry / Metalsmithing)

Title of Art Piece: Copper Pin
Category: Jewelry / Metalsmithing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Ashley Arsenault
School: East Anchorage High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: Having fun discovering the joys of metals.
Artwork Dimensions: 2 x 3
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On Pointe

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(3rd Place – Photography)

Title of Art Piece: On Pointe
Category: Photography – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Hannah Boleen
School: Kodiak High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: On Pointe
I took this photo in the effort to capture how the dancer’s I know view their art. Through the use of two flashes, one photo left at a high forty-five and one behind the pointe shoes creating rim lighting, I was able to dynamically light the pointe shoes that gave them a glamorous look. But upon closer inspection the pointe shoes are worn and ragged. In the same way dancing looks beautiful, but underneath it is hard, not only physically, but mentally and emotionally.
Artwork Dimensions: Original 14inx21in (upload 7.4×11)
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Forrest

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(3rd Place – Communication Arts / Graphic Design)

Title of Art Piece: Forrest
Category: Communication Arts / Graphic Design – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Sungmin Gim
School: Service High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: I do art because I like to put myself in a mindset of creativity to evoke a certain emotion and to restructure concepts of reality into my own image.
Artwork Dimensions: 8″ High X 10″ Wide
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Red Van

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(3rd Place – Printmaking)

Title of Art Piece: Red Van
Category: Printmaking – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Joseph Carr
School: Mat-Su Central
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: The Red Van has sat in the woods next to my childhood home as long as I can remember. It is a retired 1952 Ford radio station panel van. Over the years, it’s red paint has faded and chipped, moss grew over it’s extremities as nature slowly took root. I love this van, and it represents the quiet nobility found in abandoned objects lost in the woods. This etching attempts to catch the essence of the red van and all it means to me,Intaglio Printmaking was the perfect medium use, as it’s innately ancient nature reflects exactly the message I was hoping to get across. The completely analog process was very interesting to go through: touching and manipulating the copper, using mordants and tools to make marks, rendering the image in such a substantive way, then ultimately rolling it through the press taking the first proofs. I then got too manipulate the image even more in ways that would have been impossible to do in the pen and ink medium I was more accustomed to.

Artwork Dimensions: 15 Inches High x 15 Inches Wide
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Urban Wild

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(3rd Place – Sculpture)

Title of Art Piece: Urban Wild
Category: Sculpture – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Rachel Lowrance
School: Dimond High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement: As civilized as we are, we are only one step away from savagery.
Artwork Dimensions: 12x12x3
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Victorian Sea

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(3rd Place – Painting)

Title of Art Piece: Victorian Sea
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Jessica Conn
School: Service High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: The piece was inspired by the tranquility of the sea, and the repetitive ebb and flow of the waves that are like a heartbeat. The woman reading displays the peace and serenity that the ocean can bring to us, as she is in a total state of relaxation. Her Victorian clothing was inspired by old photos of Victorian families at the beach, showing that spending time at the beach is truly timeless.
Artwork Dimensions: 24”High X 24” Wide
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Painted Ladies

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(3rd Place – Mixed Media)

Title of Art Piece: Painted Ladies
Category: Mixed Media – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Ryan Branson
School: Kodiak High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: Painted Ladies
I came across the concept of creating paintings with photographs while studying artist Alexa Meade and decided to do my own rendition of the idea. This photo is both a work of painting and photographic art. I spent time analyzing the model’s unique features and deciding which to emphasize and which to hide. With a base coat of purple, I began to build over top of her skin an entirely new form.Even though I gave my model a new appearance, she remained the same entity in a different shell. At first glance, my first impression is not “purple”, it is “beautiful”. Both beautiful and alien, to me, she represents the social construct of race and how our society segregates humans into categories based on their appearance and color.

Artwork Dimensions: original 11inx17in (upload 8×10)
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Muskox Carving

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(3rd Place – Multicultural Art)

Title of Art Piece: Muskox Carving
Category: Multicultural Art – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Kris Tocktoo
School: Shishmaref
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: I made this carving because I wanted to make something
new and I think the muskox is an interesting animal because I’ve seen it
since I was 3 years old or younger.
Artwork Dimensions: 4″ x 3″
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Walrus

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(2nd Place – Jewelry / Metalsmithing)

Title of Art Piece: Walrus
Category: Jewelry / Metalsmithing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Marrah Williams
School: East Anchorage High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: Creating with metal lets me tell the story of the being.
Artwork Dimensions: 18 x 4
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Lost in Art

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(2nd Place – Mixed Media)

Title of Art Piece: Lost in Art
Category: Mixed Media – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Joshua Doucet
School: Valdez High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement: I am inspired by the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher and the complexity of his designs.
Artwork Dimensions: 30″ x 25″
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The Owl

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(2nd Place – Printmaking)

Title of Art Piece: The Owl
Category: Printmaking – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Sasha Gorda
School: West Valley High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement: This is a linoleum block print. I studied Inuit artists printmaking and then did my own version in a linoleum block.
Artwork Dimensions: 9.5 x 8
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This is Who We Are

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(2nd Place – Communication Arts / Graphic Design)

Title of Art Piece: “This is Who We Are
Category: Communication Arts / Graphic Design – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Sonny Mauricio
School: Thunder Mountain High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement: I designed this for our school Yearbook front and back cover – Thunder Mountain High School, the home of falcons. It shows who we really are: we are the Thunder, the proud Falcons and, of course, we are Alaskans.
I used the actual picture of Alaska that we took with our Yearbook class and blended it with drawing and typography using photoshop. The clouds and the lightning were drawn by me from scratch – all of them. I used multiple types of brushes for that. I started with a base sketch idea and over multiple tries and about 4 or 5 different versions until the image was completed.
Artwork Dimensions: 10 inches wide x 8 inches high
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Dreamland

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(2nd Place – Photography)

Title of Art Piece: Dreamland
Category: Photography – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Hannah Boleen
School: Kodiak High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: “Dreamland”My creativity is fueled by the world around me. My home, Kodiak inspires much of my photography through its mystery and natural beauty. For a long time, I was unable to channel the inspiration surrounding me. It wasn’t until I took beginning photography my junior year, that I was able to bring to life the ideas I had swimming around in my head. For this photo, I wanted a photo to go with a story I was writing about a forest trapped in unbreakable night, so I went out one night to a nearby forest and light painted the trees from an extreme wide angle. As I was taking the photo I realized that not only had my photography become an avenue for my creativity to express itself, but it had began to enhance my other creative endeavors.

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Torso

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(2nd Place – Sculpture)

Title of Art Piece: Torso
Category: Sculpture – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Lisa Wisner
School: Homer High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: Overall as an artist, I am trying to conjure emotional or intellectual stimulus to anyone who looks at my pieces. Each piece says something not only about me, but what I am trying to achieve technically and creatively. I am adamant about providing a natural context for each piece and I am currently working with animals, people, and varying abstract elements. My influences come from not only ceramic artists, but contemporary artists like Cai Guo-Qiang. Cai works with materials to create large exhibits and fascinating canvas pieces. The canvas pieces are what he calls “gunpowder” art, and the colors are a chaotically beautiful mixture of earth-like hues, something that I draw to for inspiration. Aside from his obvious artistic genius he finds ways to integrate various provocative concepts that keep viewers interested long after they visit his pieces. As far as historical influence, I have found my preferred technique, coil building, and I try to make smooth flowing shapes. Along with the pieces themselves, I try to focus on design and work outside of regular aesthetic confinement. I want my pieces to stand out because of their emotional context, and I am considering exploring political and controversial art; something that will resonate with someone on a primal and emotive level.
Artwork Dimensions: 18 Inches High x 12 Inches Wide
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Pet Shop

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(2nd Place – Painting)

Title of Art Piece: Pet Shop
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Aubrea Stoltz
School: West Valley HIgh School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: I was interested in trying to paint a night scene and capture the colors and light at that time. It is painted in Acrylic.
Artwork Dimensions: 13.5 x 20
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Colorful Culture

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(2nd Place – Multicultural Art)

Title of Art Piece: Colorful Culture
Category: Multicultural Art – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Gavin Martin
School: Thunder Mountain High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement: I chose the colors having in mind rainfall in Southeast Alaska. The blueish purple is the rain once it falls. After the rain, the flower symbolizes the rainbow. The fur is the white clouds after the rain has escaped.
Artwork Dimensions: One bootie size: 3.5″ wide X 2″ tall
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Celebrating the Generations

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(Congressional Award)
(2nd Place – Drawing)

Title of Art Piece: Celebrating the Generations
Category: Drawing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Laura Horton
School: East Anchorage High School
Grade: 11th