2nd Place
Title of Art Piece: X’áan Náakw
Category: Multicultural Art – 2025
Student/Artist’s Name: Olivia Hickman
School: Juneau Douglas High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: I work with formline a lot in my art, and enjoy trying new animals or new designs that I haven’t before to go outside of my comfort zone and challenge my creativity(Instead of only making formline birds), as well as contributing as best I can to keep the indigenous art form alive and thriving. This digital piece pictures a red octopus in the ocean surrounded by bubbles and was created on ‘ibis Paint X’. Speed paint can be provided if necessary.
Artwork Dimensions: (The ibis paint x app says the canvas size is 1938 x 1634, but I am unsure what unit of measurement that is supposed to be in, however, my digital works can be physically printed in any size)

Original Image:
https://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/62-0f397a5b8c7ee04de83b57307274f9a7/2025/04/Untitled85_20250406120408.jpeg