HAWAIʻI NEI 2019
November 1 - December 12 Wailoa Center, Hilo 

2019 Award Winners!

YOUTH - Featured Category: Kō ā kai
Lower Elementary
  • Honorable Mention
    • Noah Cunningham “Hawaiian Duck”
    • Makenzie Davis “Honu”
  • 1st Place - Eva Moore “Boxfish”

Upper Elementary 
  • Honorable Mentions
    • Miley Auth “Helmet Urchin”
    • Ainsley Smith “Mermaid Lagoon”
  • 1st Place - Mercy Dunn “Kihikihi Map”

Middle School 
  • Honorable Mentions
    • Kaʻōpualani Puniwai-Ganoot “Limu”
    • Ezra Monello “Hawaiian Puffer”
  • 1st Place - Kaʻōnohi Puniwai-Ganoot “Giant Squid”

High School 
  • Honorable Mentions
    • Ava Baker “Recycled Marine” 
    • Damia Burns “Jelly Fish”
  • 1st Place - Tara Davis “Coastal Reef”

Group Entry 
  • Honorable Mentions
    • Christian Hunt & Ben Birk “Amazing Creatures”
    • Haʻaheo 4th Grade “Ma Ke Kai” 
  • 1st Place - Waiākea Intermediate Art Class Kumu Carrie Edgil “Plastic Reef”
YOUTH: General Native Species
Lower Elementary 
  • Honorable Mention
    • Saybri Enos “Follow the Leader”
    • Brady Shiroma “The Damselfly”
  • 1st Place - Khloe Ontiveros “In The Forest”

Upper Elementary
  • Honorable Mentions
    • Jaxon Smith “Happy Little Mistakes” 
    • Senaka Reddy “ʻŌhiʻa Mug Etched”
  • 1st Place - Quincy Tobey “Before Us” 

Middle School 
  • Honorable Mentions
    • Alayna York “Forest Birds”
    • Malika Bernal “Pueo”
  • 1st Place - Tiffany Wong “Across the Sky”

High School 
  • Honorable Mentions
    • Jasmine Christie “ʻŌhiʻa Forest”
    • Jubilee Nelson “Napping Nēnē”
  • 1st Place - Jasmine Christie “Impacts”

Group Entry
  • Honorable Mention - VSAS 3rd & 4th Grade Kumu Laura Warner “Impressions of Kumulipo”
  • 1st Place - Anwar Genz & Ava Yamanaka “Bucky”

​Jurorʻs Choice 
  • Ka ʻUmeke Kāʻeo “A Moku Lehua Nui”
ADULT - Featured Category: Kō ā Kai

Amateur 
  •  2nd Place - Andy Feifarek “Symmetry” 
  • 1st Place - Diana Miller “Life on the Edge”
Professional
  • 2nd Place - Howard Bradley “Kona Aeʻo”
  • 1st Place - Kathleen Carr “Reticulated Butterflyfish in a Reticulated Field”

ADULT: General Native Species

Amateur 
  •  2nd Place - Alex Wang “ʻAkiapōlāʻau”
  • 1st Place - Lorraine Waianuhea “Na Ka Hau O Maunakea Kuʻu Nio”
Professional 
  •  2nd Place - Jelena Clay “ʻAlalā in ʻŌlapa Tree”
  • 1st Place - Bonnie Hahn “A Walk Along the Shore”

Honorable Mentions
  • David Ford “Manuiwa”
  • Claire Seastone “Kamehameha Chrysalis”
  • Norman Negre 

Jurorsʻ Choice 
  • Lynn Capell “A Delicate Balance”

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