Art Scholar Competition 2025
Grand Prize Winner
Tinsley Smith - Waiting for Tomorrow (2D Fine Art), acrylic, Alta High School
Category Winners
2D Fine Art
First place - Abigail Burton - Eden, acrylic, Corner Canyon
Second place - Olivia Berger - Expectations - Acrylic, Spray paint, Posters, on Canvas, Hillcrest
Third place - Lilly Hess - Summer, charcoal, Hillcrest
3D
First place - Lynslie Calacino - Prints of Greed,
Second place - Brock Sorenson - Daybreak
Third place - Benjamin Young - Japanese Lantern
Photography/Digital
First place - Joshua Graham - Earth Through Personification, photography, Alta High School
Second place - Ava Townsend - Sanctuary, digital, Hillcrest
Third place - Alisa Kovalova - Disconnected, digital, Alta High School
Honorable Mentions
Hannah Hassett - Trapped, photography, Alta High School
Aeris Lau - Sixty, oil on canvas, Hillcrest
Sophie Jacobs - Shattered Self, Mixed Media (Ceramic, Metal, Wax Clay), Corner Canyon
Jack Khachatryan - Fractured, Inkjet Transfer Print on Glass, The Waterford School
Max Adams - Bloodstream, 3D, Wood (spruce top, cocobolo back/sides, maple neck-cocobolo fretboard), mother-of-pearl inlay, metal frets, lacquer finish.”, Corner Canyon
Art Scholar Competition 2024
2 Dimensional Awards
3rd Place: To be Loved, by Marcela Lopes Jardim de Oliveira of Jordan High School. Medium: Charcoal Pastels
2nd Place: Nature by Annika Amundsen of Hillcrest High School. Medium: Oil
1st Place: Life On A Deadline by Elena Parker of Hillcrest High School. Medium: Mixed Media
Grand Prize Award: TLOU table and clicker bust, by Peyton Bryant of Alta High School. Medium: Wood, Resin, Clay.
3 dimensional awards
1st Place: Mind Winder by Gage Day of Corner Canyon High School.
2nd Place: Weathered World, by Evan Wolf of Corner Canyon High School.
3rd Place: Oceans Rise, by Breanne Kennard of Corner Canyon High School.
Photography / Digital
1st Place: Train by Emerson Menges of Hillcrest High School.
2nd Place: Lollipop, by Kate Duffin of Alta High School.
3rd Place: Embrace in Intervallo II, by Janneke Remick of Corner Canyon High School.
Honorable Mention Awards
quack. (2D) By Annie Ellsworth of Corner Canyon High School. Medium: Acrylic
EDEN 3 (2D) by Kale Davis of Corner Canyon High School. Medium: Oil on Canvas.
Game Night (2D) by Josilyn Stevens of Jordan High School. Medium: Colored Pencil.
Bloater, by Kaden Robert Huffman of Alta High School. Medium: Sculpture.
Where the children play by Eric de Morais of Hillcrest High School. Medium: AcrylicPhotography
Art Scholar Competition 2023
Grand Prize - Blaise Brady (Hillcrest) - 2D piece entitled Unpretentious
2D
1st Place - Ava Buxton (Jordan) - Kintsugi
2nd Place - Guandi Wang (Waterford) - My Self-portrait
3rd Place - Emma Ciecil (Hillcrest) - Cynefi
3D
1st Place - Lenny Beddoes (Hillcrest) - Archaeology
2nd Place - Imogen Valentine (Hillcrest) - Home Again
3rd Place - Alex Knorr (Hillcrest) - Indomitable
Photography/Digital
1st Place - Olivia Wood (Waterford) - Backstage
2nd Place - Kamryn Mend (Brighton) - Winter Flight
3rd Place - Jonathan Madill (Hillcrest) - Stairway
Honorable Mentions - Christina Wapner (Waterfor) - Photo Revealed Reflection, North Rust (Corner Canyon) - Photo/Digital - Infinite Warmth, Nicolette Harris (Corner Canyon) 3D Forget-me-not, Ricki Baker (Jordan) - 3D Golem
Art Scholar Competition 2022
Grand Prize - Lucza Brewer
1st Place - Grant Jackson, Braxton Collings, Micaela Madariaga
2nd Place - Grace Farnsworth, Abigail Berg, Cooper Jaques
3rd Place - Ethan McWillis, Talia Olson, Mia Jones
Honorable Mention - Aimee Watson, Isabella Nibley, Stephanie Marks
Grand Prize Winner - Lucza Brewer
“Winning this award means so much to me and I feel an immense amount of support from my community here in Draper. I have always felt that art has an unmatched power to communicate emotions in a way that words may not be able to. This is a crazy time for people everywhere in the world, especially youth, so for me to be able to share my voice with my photography is an honor. I am really grateful for the photography program at the Waterford School that has supported my growth as an artist through high school and I am beyond excited to continue my studies in the art department at UCLA!”
ART Scholar Competition 2021
Grand Prize - Katie Farnsworth
1st Place - Aspen Douglas
2nd Place - Hannah Zimmerman
3rd Place - Alany Gonzales
Honorable Mention - Anna Eaton, Brianna Gibson, Alex Zoumadakis, Paige Anderson
Art Scholar Competition 2019
Grand Prize - Alana Liu
1st Place - Elanor Larsen
2nd Place - Zach Gray
3rd Place - Tori Koch, Alisha Khan, Tate Larsen
Honorable Mention - Anna Herandez, Bethany Juvenal
ART Scholar competition 2018
Grand Prize - Spencer Johnson
1st Place - Kathryn Beck, Keaton Carter
2nd Place - Dorenda Blythe, Salma Perez
3rd Place - Gavin Sun
Honorable Mention - Nicole Brooks
ART Scholar Competition 2017
Grand Prize - Zachary Thomas
1st Place - Lisette Beaugez
2nd Place - Meg Warnock
3rd Place - Makayla Goslant
Art Scholar Competition 2016
Grand Prize - Alexus Brazil
1st Place - Chelsea Bradley, Sadie Chidester
2nd Place - Austin Simpkins
3rd Place - Matthew Brunken
Art Scholar Competition 2015
Grand Prize - Hannah Petersen
1st Place - Olivia Braiker, Pantera Coshow
2nd Place - Caroline Hollow
3rd Place - Elizabeth Harrison
Art Scholar Competition 2014
Grand Prize - Spencer Brady
1st Place - Jeffery Hampshire
2nd Place - Danielle Romney, Lauren Grothouse
Art Scholar Competition 2013
Grand Prize - Ashlynn Andrewsen
1st Place - Kayla Mogesen
2nd Place - Dominique Simon
Art Scholar Competition 2012
Grand Prize - Hailey Twede
1st Place - Kylie Smith
2nd Place - Dallin Orr
3rd Place - Kylie Smith
ART Scholar Competition winners from the past
Art Scholar Competition 2000
Grand Prize - Emily Kennard (Dunn)
