• 3rd Place - 6th Grade. Title: Multnomah Falls. Artist: Christian Cuellar. Medium: Digital art. School: Meridian Creek Middle School. Description: This piece is a digital vector-style landscape made in Google Drawing. I chose this picture because of how it has a great view of both waterfalls. Also I chose it because the picture has an upwards view of the waterfall with the cliff next to it. The image I picked also has a foggy type background with the trees farther away which I believe adds some extra depth to the image. The artwork depicts a tall waterfall cascading down dark rocky cliffs into a blue pool, surrounded by lush green foliage and trees in various shades of green, with a bridge visible near the top of the falls and a misty gray sky beyond.
  • 2nd Place - 6th Grade. Title: If Chopin was Alive Today. Artist: Quinn Seidl-Lam. Medium: Digital Art. School: Meridian Creek Middle School. Description: Digital art made in Google Drawing. The artwork depicts a full-length figure of composer Frederic Chopin standing on a balcony with a white railing, wearing a black suit, white shirt, and red bow tie, with brown hair and a mustache. Behind him is a panoramic view of snow-capped mountains against a blue sky, with autumn-colored foliage below.
  • 1st place, 6th grade: digital illustration of a girl playing violin from the back in a mosaic style. Title: Practice Makes Perfect Artist: Marcellino Vu Grade: 6 School: Meridian Creek Middle School Medium: Digital art Description: This is a digital mosaic of my sister made in Google Drawing. I’ve made each shape using my mouse, and picked out the colors by hand. I’ve chosen the title “Practice Makes Perfect” because you practice and learn from your mistakes in order to be good.
  • Honorable Mention - 7th Grade. Title: Hireath (left) & Anura (right). Artist: Mage Corbett (left) & Avery Rimmer (right). Medium: Mixed media sculptures. School: Athey Creek Middle School. Description: Seven inch tall figure sculpture in blue apron (left), seven-inch-tall figure in green cloak (right). The left figure wears a blue polka-dot apron with pink ruffled details and has one arm raised, with a colorful floral headdress. The right figure wears a pale green and yellow patterned cloak with a white dress underneath and has a round face with button-like features. Both figures stand on green lily pad-shaped bases with orange feet visible beneath. They are photographed against a black fabric backdrop.
  • 3rd Place - 7th Grade. Title: Mariana, Maria and Cool Girl. Artist: Addison McNutt. Medium: Graphite on paper. School: Kraxberger Middle School. Description: Portrait drawings of original characters. Three graphite pencil sketches arranged vertically on black matting, each depicting a different young female character with flowing hair and expressive features in an anime-influenced style. The drawings show delicate line work with soft shading.
  • 2nd Place - 7th Grade. Title: Untitled. Artist: Ella Ha. Medium: Watercolor. School: Lake Oswego Junior High School. Description: Watercolor lionfish. The painting depicts a lionfish with dramatic fan-like fins and spines rendered in vivid red and white stripes, with detailed patterns across its body and fins. The fish is shown against a soft, pale watercolor wash background.
  • 1st Place - 7th Grade. Title: Up Strung Blue. Artist: Emily Paul. Medium: Acrylic paint, pencil and marker on canvas mounted on wood. School: Inza R. Wood Middle School. Description: My artwork represents the mix between happy and sad. The blue represents sadness, as the white or lighter color represents happiness. The piece in a whole represents how many things can come together to form something with unity. The artwork is a tall wooden board with multiple small canvases mounted on it, each featuring different scenes including mountains, night skies with trees, abstract wave patterns, and small detailed studies. The entire assemblage is framed by a garland of green eucalyptus leaves draped around the top and sides.
  • 3rd Place - 8th Grade. Title: Stories Empower Me. Artist: Anwesha Chowdhury. Medium: Colored pencils. School: Athey Creek Middle School. Description: Girl looking up at her reflection in a hand-held mirror, blue background. The colored pencil drawing shows a girl with long dark hair and flowers in her hair looking upward at a mirror she holds above her, in which her reflection looks back down at her. The background is a rich blue. Small details include pink flowers on her face and in her hair, and a small orange clownfish near the top of the composition. The artist's signature is visible at the bottom.
  • 2nd Place - 8th Grade. Title: Flower Girl. Artist: Gabi (Gabriella) Moultrie. Medium: Digital art. School: Meridian Creek Middle School. Description: Digital portrait made up of individual photos of flowers. The artwork shows a profile view of a female figure facing left, with her skin composed of small peach and tan flower photographs, purple flowers forming a headband, and green leaves with colorful flowers of pink, blue, yellow, and purple making up her hair. She wears a blue crocheted or textured top. The background is dark gray.
  • 1st Place - 8th Grade. Title: Brave Samurai Avenges Their Fallen Master. Artist: Leonardo Navarro Gonzalez. Medium: Ink Drawing. School: Baker Prairie Middle School. Description: Dragon black and white with entities in the front. The highly detailed ink drawing features a large serpentine dragon with intricate scales coiling through the composition, with a full moon visible behind it. In the foreground are samurai figures, elaborate armor, and decorative elements including flowers. The entire piece is rendered in fine black ink with extraordinary detail and cross-hatching throughout, creating a dense, richly layered scene.
  • 2nd Place - 9th Grade. Title: Zulaiha. Artist: Kyros Mauer. Medium: Giclee print of a colored pencil original. School: Molalla High School. Description: 8" x 10" prismacolor of a young girl with warm color clothing and a blue background. This portrait was for the memory project, a nonprofit that seeks to make cross-cultural connections through art. The original was mailed to the recipient in Nigeria. The portrait shows a close-up of a smiling young girl wearing a bright orange and yellow head covering, with warm brown skin and expressive dark eyes, set against a vivid blue background.
  • 1st Place - 9th Grade. Title: Pensive. Artist: Hope Ceniceros. Medium: Watercolor. School: Clackamas High School. Description: This is one of my friends the day after yet another COVID birthday, back in December - it was cloudy and cold, and she still wanted to go on a walk. The watercolor painting shows a girl with long brown hair seen from behind, sitting in a chair by a window with blue-toned light coming through. She is wearing a blue sweater, and there are pillows with floral patterns beside her. The overall palette is cool blues and muted tones, creating a quiet, reflective mood.
  • Honorable Mention - 10th Grade. Title: Mammoth Hot Springs. Artist: Zoe Schager. Medium: Digital print. School: Sabin-Schellenberg Professional Technical Center. Description: A digital design of Mammoth Hot Springs using Illustrator to create a vector print, which was inspired by the WPA's National Parks posters. This poster acknowledges the ancestral lands of the Cheyenne and Apsaalooke peoples for their historical use of this area. The poster features layered terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs in shades of gray and white in the foreground, with blue sky and white clouds above. Text at the bottom reads "Mammoth Hot Springs," "US Department of the Interior," "National Park Service," "Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States," and "Ancestral Lands of the Cheyenne and Apsaalooke Tribes," with a National Park Service arrowhead logo in the center.
  • Honorable Mention - 10th Grade. Title: Chronological. Artist: Kaitlyn Hoang. Medium: Colored pencil on newsprint mounted on white sulfur paper. School: Adrienne C. Nelson High School. Description: Nine self portraits, each a different color. The artwork shows two rows of the same female figure with glasses, drawn repeatedly in different rainbow colors including green, yellow, blue, pink, red, orange, and purple. The top row contains five portraits and the bottom row contains four, creating a spectrum effect across the composition.
  • 3rd Place - 10th Grade. Title: Wheat Bowl. Artist: Henry Cyphers. Medium: Digital design application to bisqueware. School: Sabin-Schellenberg Professional Technical Center. Description: Digitally developed vector designs cut in adhesive vinyl and applied to pre-made bisqueware. Vinyl design was used as a resist for black underglaze application and fired prior to glaze application and glaze firing. The finished bowl is a shallow, wide ceramic dish with a striking black and white pattern featuring radiating wheat leaf motifs and geometric diamond shapes arranged in a symmetrical, mandala-like design from the center outward.
  • 2nd Place - 10th Grade. Title: Robin Family. Artist: Scottie Weiler. Medium: Ballpoint pen and colored pencil on paper. School: Estacada High School. Description: Landscape with fence in the foreground drawn using ballpoint pen. Birds were drawn on separate paper in ballpoint pen and colored pencil and then cut out and placed in slight relief on the drawing surface. The artwork shows three American robins with orange-red breasts perched on a rustic wooden fence, with bare winter tree branches and a detailed rural landscape in the background, all rendered in fine ballpoint pen lines with colored pencil adding warm color to the birds.
  • 1st Place - 10th Grade. Title: Untitled. Artist: Emily Bisson. Medium: Ceramic. School: Clackamas High School. Description: Coiled organic forms. Two ceramic vessels are shown: one tall and upright with a black glaze covered in rows of small white irregular circles and dots, and one curved horn-like form lying on its side with a white glaze and large black polka dots. Both pieces have organic, slightly irregular shapes with smooth surfaces.
  • Honorable Mention - 11th Grade. Title: Dinosaur National Monument. Artist: Michael Tapia-Lopez. Medium: Digital print. School: Sabin-Schellenberg Professional Technical Center. Description: A digital design of Dinosaur National Monument using Illustrator and digital drawing tools to create a vector print, which was inspired by the WPA's National Parks posters. This poster intends to pay tribute to the Fremont people who occupied this region prior to colonization, and whose imagery in petroglyphs can still be seen today in the area known as Dinosaur National Monument. The poster features a bold two-color design in deep blue and orange, depicting a large rock formation silhouetted against a striped sky with horizontal lines. Text at the bottom reads "Dinosaur National Monument," "U.S. Department of the Interior," and "National Park Service," with a National Park Service logo in the center.
  • Honorable Mention - 11th Grade. Title: The Veins of Life. Artist: Rose Robbins. Medium: Floral foam and acrylic. School: Oregon City Service Learning Academy. Description: Abstract subtractive sculpture with metallic dry brushing. The sculpture is a tall, rectangular block of floral foam with deep carved channels and organic shapes cut into the surface, creating an abstract relief pattern. The piece is coated in dark acrylic paint with metallic silver and bronze dry brushing that highlights the raised surfaces and carved edges. It sits on a flat green and tan base and is photographed against a white fabric backdrop.
  • 3rd Place - 11th Grade. Title: Abdulah. Artist: Morgan Bem. Medium: Giclee print of a colored pencil original. School: Molalla High School. Description: A portrait of young boy in a green shirt, with a black background. The original is being sent to Nigeria as a part of the nonprofit Memory Project, which aims to make cross-cultural connections through art. The close-up portrait shows a young boy with warm brown skin and large expressive eyes, wearing a green striped collared shirt. The colored pencil work captures soft skin tones and subtle highlights, with a dark background that draws focus to the subject's face.
  • 2nd Place - 11th Grade. Title: Looking Down. Artist: Lily Schrimster. Medium: Charcoal. School: Lake Oswego High School. Description: Girl sitting on a stool. The charcoal drawing shows a girl with long dark hair sitting atop a tall stool, viewed from a low angle looking up. She wears a casual jacket, pants, and sneakers with striped details, and her face is partially obscured by shadow and her hair. The background features dramatic charcoal shading with architectural elements like beams or railings, creating strong contrast and a sense of height and perspective.
  • 1st Place - 11th Grade. Title: The High Priestess. Artist: Hannah Olson. Medium: Oil paint on canvas. School: Clackamas High School. Description: This is part of my AP portfolio exploring how grief changed my perception. The oil painting depicts two female figures in a composition reminiscent of religious iconography. A larger, veiled figure draped in blue-gray fabric with a gold crescent moon ornament on her forehead stands behind and cradles a smaller figure with short dark hair and closed eyes. Rich red curtain drapes frame the scene on either side, with warm golden light in the background, creating a solemn, contemplative mood.
  • Honorable Mention - 12th Grade. Title: Untitled. Artist: Nola Carstairs. Medium: Watercolor. School: West Linn High School. Description: Large watercolor filled with women's faces and a few animals. The painting features a rich, layered composition of multiple women's faces and figures in various sizes and orientations, surrounded by plants, flowers, and animals including what appears to be a large brown bear or dog in the lower right. The women have diverse features and hair colors and styles, some shown in profile and others facing forward. The palette includes warm earth tones, greens, teals, and pops of yellow and orange from flowers and foliage, with a white and light-toned background allowing the figures to blend and overlap in a collage-like arrangement.
  • Honorable Mention - 12th Grade. Title: A Walk in Pajamas. Artist: Ashley Lewis. Medium: Acrylic paint. School: Lake Oswego High School. Description: Two kids walking through a forest with whales. The vibrant acrylic painting depicts a surreal forest scene with tall tree trunks and lush green foliage, where two small children in pajamas walk hand-in-hand through the undergrowth. Two large blue whales swim through the air between the trees above the children. A large red octopus sits among rocks and moss in the lower left corner. The overall palette is rich blues, greens, and teals, creating a dreamlike underwater-forest atmosphere.
  • Honorable Mention - 12th Grade. Title: Why Didn't It Go Away. Artist: Helen Lendzioszek. Medium: Acrylic paint and colored pencil. School: Clackamas High School. Description: Essentially about childhood trauma and the idea that it just simply goes away as you grow older. It doesn't though, it grows and morphs into different things as you grow. The painting depicts a young child with curly brown hair and tears streaming down their face, holding something in their cupped hands. The child is surrounded by red leaves and flowers against a warm, muted brown and red background, creating an emotionally charged composition with rich detail in the foliage and the child's expression.
  • Honorable Mention - 12th Grade. Title: Agoraphobia. Artist: Jillian Donohue. Medium: Black ink pen. School: Clackamas High School. Description: This piece explores how phobias, particularly agoraphobia (fear of leaving one's home and entering potential open and crowded places), takes hold of us. The dust on the mirror, the painted-over windows, the bare coat rack, the tall stack of books, the chair by the door, and the intrusive hands are all intentional messages and experiences shared by many real life agoraphobics that I've studied. The ink drawing shows a figure standing in a dimly lit entryway, looking into a dusty mirror. Hands reach through the doorway from outside. A tall stack of books sits near the door, a chair blocks the entrance, a bare coat rack stands nearby, and the windows appear painted over, all rendered in detailed black ink cross-hatching and shading with a lamp casting light from above.
  • Honorable Mention - 12th Grade. Title: The Shade of Origin. Artist: Denise Mach. Medium: Mixed media: umbrella, instant noodle bags, thread, twine and beads. School: Clackamas High School. Description: My interest in the creation of instant noodles led me to research its connection to colonialism and political, economic, and military suffering. The umbrella reflects the pain and experiences of people who have generational trauma. The history, emotions, and memories bound to them alter their internalized perception of themselves and generations after. Whether it be the instant noodle bags or the thread, each material used in "The Shade of Origin" has a significant meaning that contributes to the overall message of the piece. The artwork shows two views of a small decorative umbrella: a close-up of the canopy from above (left) and the full umbrella open from the side (right). The canopy is covered with flattened instant noodle bags in various colors featuring green, red, and gold packaging graphics, stitched together with red thread and twine, with beads adorning the tips of the umbrella ribs.
  • 3rd Place - 12th Grade. Title: Summer in Pine Hollow. Artist: Jada Johnson. Medium: Graphite. School: Lake Oswego High School. Description: Boy inside of inner tube. The graphite drawing shows a young boy with a wide, joyful grin lying inside an inflatable inner tube, viewed from a low angle looking up. The boy's wet hair is plastered to his forehead and his eyes are squeezed shut with delight. The drawing captures the folds and reflections of the inflatable tube with skilled graphite shading, with water suggested in the background.
  • 2nd Place - 12th Grade. Title: Return Home. Artist: Jamie Liu. Medium: Acrylic paint. School: Lake Oswego High School. Description: Two women standing near each other. The acrylic painting shows two women standing side by side, one wearing a yellow jacket over a pink top and the other wearing a red plaid shirt. The background features expressive, gestural brushstrokes in blues, greens, whites, and grays, with faint text in what appears to be Chinese characters visible in the upper left area. The painting has a loose, painterly quality with visible brushwork throughout.
  • Best in Show. Title: Math Tutoring. Artist: Reese Stame. Medium: Charcoal. School: Lake Oswego High School. Description: Charcoal drawing of two girls studying on grey paper. The drawing depicts two girls seated at a small table, one leaning over writing while the other watches and helps. The figures are rendered in rich, dark charcoal with strong contrast between light and shadow, while the background room with its walls and furniture is sketched more lightly in outline, creating a sense of depth and focus on the two subjects. An empty chair sits in the foreground.
  • Best in Show. Title: Math Tutoring. Artist: Reese Stame. Medium: Charcoal. School: Lake Oswego High School. Description: Charcoal drawing of two girls studying on grey paper. The drawing depicts two girls seated at a small table, one leaning over writing while the other watches and helps. The figures are rendered in rich, dark charcoal with strong contrast between light and shadow, while the background room with its walls and furniture is sketched more lightly in outline, creating a sense of depth and focus on the two subjects. An empty chair sits in the foreground.
  • Staff Choice Award. Title: Return Home. Artist: Jamie Liu. Medium: Acrylic paint. School: Lake Oswego High School. Description: Two women standing near each other. The acrylic painting shows two women standing side by side, one wearing a yellow jacket over a pink top and the other wearing a red plaid shirt. The background features expressive, gestural brushstrokes in blues, greens, whites, and grays, with faint text in what appears to be Chinese characters visible in the upper left area. The painting has a loose, painterly quality with visible brushwork throughout.
  • Superintendent's Choice Award. Title: The Emerald Eye. Artist: Adina Lozovan. Medium: Colored pencils, pencil, white gel pen and ballpoint pen. School: Inza R. Wood Middle School. Description: I have always been interested in drawing eyes. Not only do they come in so many shapes and colors, it's difficult to find two pairs that are exactly the same. That's what inspired me to create "The Emerald Eye." I felt that I wanted to create an eye with the totally unnatural, but no doubt beautiful color of Emerald green. The artwork is a highly detailed close-up drawing of a single human eye with a vivid emerald green iris, long dark eyelashes, and realistic skin tones in peach and warm tan around the eye. White gel pen highlights create realistic reflections on the iris and tear duct. The artist's signature "Adina" is visible at the bottom.

More than $175,000 in potential scholarships and other prizes were awarded to middle and high school student artists at the awards ceremony for the sixth annual Clackamas Education Service District Regional Art Show.

For the second year in a row, Reese Stame of Lake Oswego High School took “Best of Show” honors. This year, her winning work was a charcoal portrait entitled “Math Tutoring.”

The awards ceremony, held at Clackamas ESD headquarters on April 28 and livestreamed on Facebook, honored all 154 students representing eight school districts in Clackamas County who submitted artwork to this year’s show.

More than 30 juried awards were presented during the ceremony, which was preceded by a reception for student artists and their teachers and families. The generous prizes offered to students were made possible by the sponsorship of Pacific Northwest College of Art, One River School of Art + Design and Clackamas Community College, with additional support provided by Venvino Art Studios.

Stame, who also took first-place honors for 12th-grade entries, earned prizes valued at nearly $21,000, including a $5,000 renewable scholarship from PNCA; gift cards for three months of classes and two summer camps from One River School of Art + Design; a four-credit tuition waiver from Clackamas Community College; and $125 worth of gift cards from Venvino Art Studios.

  • Wide shot of many people looking at the art exhibit
  • Teenage student smiling in front of her displayed drawing of robins.
  • Family looking at artwork hanging on wall
  • Teenage student standing proudly in front of his artwork
  • Young student looking up at artwork hanging on wall
  • Wide shot of 200+ person audience from the back looking at the speaker and display screen
  • Supt. Larry Didway speaking at the podium at the awards ceremony
  • Close up of audience members clapping during the awards ceremony
  • Art teacher Alissa Tran speaking at the podium at the awards ceremony
  • Close up of mother and son smiling in audience during awards ceremony
  • Young student holding his award and smiling with his family in front of a wall of artwork
  • Teenage student holding her award certificate and smiling with friends
  • Best in show winner Reese Stame holding her award certificate and smiling with CESD Board Member Linda Brown

Lake Oswego High School had another double winner: Jamie Liu earned a 12th-grade second-place award as well as the Staff Choice Award, voted on by employees of Clackamas ESD. The ESD will purchase Liu’s artwork, an acrylic painting entitled “Return Home,” and keep it on permanent display.

Other top high school winners came from Clackamas High School: Hannah Olson, who earned first place in the 11th-grade category with her oil painting “The High Priestess”; Emily Bisson, who took first place in 10th grade for her untitled ceramic piece; and Hope Ceniceros, the ninth-grade first-place winner for her watercolor painting “Pensive.”

All high school winners received varying levels of PNCA scholarships, gift cards for classes at One River School and gift cards from Venvino Art Studios.

At the middle school level, top honors in eighth grade were awarded to Leonardo Navarro Gonzalez of Baker Prairie Middle School for his ink drawing titled “Brave Samurai Avenges Their Fallen Master.” First place in the seventh-grade category went to Emily Paul of Inza R. Wood Middle School in Wilsonville for her collage of paintings and drawings titled “Up Strung Blue.” The top winner in sixth grade was Marcellino Vu of Meridian Creek Middle School in Wilsonville for his digital art piece “Practice Makes Perfect.”

Clackamas ESD unveiled a new award this year, the Jada Rupley Superintendent’s Choice Award, named in honor of the retired CESD superintendent who founded the regional art show in 2017. Winner of this award, selected by CESD Superintendent Larry Didway, was Adina Lozovan, a sixth-grade student at Inza R. Wood Middle School in Wilsonville. Lozovan’s striking color drawing, “The Emerald Eye,” captured Didway’s interest.

“As I looked through the show, Adina’s beautiful, detailed drawing of a vibrant green eye caught my attention,” said Didway. “And when I saw this amazing portrait was created by a sixth-grade student, that made it all the more impressive to me.”

CESD will purchase Lozovan’s artwork and keep it on permanent display.

A complete list of winning students and their artwork is available in the slideshow at the top of this page.

“This annual art show is a joy to share with our community, and this year’s event was even more special because of our ability to once again display the art and honor students in person,” said Didway. “And we couldn’t make it happen without a great support team. I am so grateful to PNCA, One River School and Clackamas Community College, who continued their incredibly generous sponsorship of our show. Six regional art professionals donated many hours to adjudicating our entries. Nearly 30 teachers from throughout Clackamas County made time in their extremely busy days to select and submit artworks.

“And, most important, 154 student artists were the stars of the show. There aren’t enough venues to appropriately celebrate all the creativity and talent that is on display daily in our public schools. I’m proud we can offer this yearly opportunity to shine a light on so many promising young artists.”

The 2022 Clackamas ESD Regional Art Show virtual gallery will remain online on our website.