1st Place
Konstantina Papadaki
Title: "I Just Want To Go Home, Officer"
Size: 22"X16" Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Grade / School: 11th Grade - Dr. Michael M Krop Senior High School
Contact:kokopapadaki@gmail.com
Description: This painting is inspired by global violence. Specifically violence committed by people in authoritative roles. The piece is black and white, except for the use of red, which represents blood, and the blue and red for police car lights.
2nd Place
Micaela Zeitlin
Title: "Newway"
Size:24"X36"
Medium: Acrylic and India Ink on Canvas
Grade/School: 12th Grade - TERRA Environmental Institute
Contact: micazeitlin@gmail.com
Description: A painting which aims to depict the commonality of poverty within the U.S. and how it harms those in its grasp, as well as how we as the viewer participate in this due to our willful ignorance, perpetuated by media and news depictions which aim to distract us.
3rd Place
Josephina Manzanarez
Title: "Los Ninos Perdidos"
Size: 22"X14"
Medium:Acrylic on Canvas
Grade/School: 11th Grade - Coral Reef Senior High
Contact:jmanzanarez639@coralreeefhigh.org
Description: This painting is inspired by disappearances and kidnapping of children at Nicaraguan Park. It features statues in honor of said children, highlighting the global issue of child abductions and disappearances.
4th Place
Helena Yang
Title: "Never Forget"
Size: 11.5"X14.5"
Medium: Digital Art on Paper
Grade/School: 12th Grade- Design Architecture Senior High
Contact: helenayang0480@gmail.com
Description: This painting highlights the way Japan used soft power to mask its war crimes in WWII. This piece shows the victims of the Nanjing Massacre with a hand covering their faces with stickers to cover up their crimes. It says “forget” in Japanese and “never forget” in Chinese.
5th Place
Natalie Niselson
Title: "The Lost World"
Size: 24"X30"
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Grade/ School: 10th - Bayside High School
Contact: natnis467@gmail.com
Description: This painting strives to depict the horror of the world where nature is lost for us forever and can only be seen in books. This piece is meant to bring awareness to the devastating irreversible consequences of climate change.