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2019 Adult Winners
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”
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”
2018 Adult Winners
Featured Category: Endangered Species of Hawaiʻi Island
Amateur
2nd Place -
Kathleen Mishima “ʻŌhāwai”
1
st
Place -
Bret Mossman “ʻĀkepa o ka Ua”
Professional
2nd Place -
Mydock “Endangered Species - Habitat on fire
1
st
Place -
Jack Jeffrey “Mauna Kea Silversword”
General Native Species
Amateur
2nd Place -
Robin Scanlon “Stay strong ʻōhiʻa”
1
st
Place -
Adriane Skinner “Pūpū pōniuniu”
Professional
2nd Place -
Liz Miller “Hidden Life on Mauna Loa”
1
st
Place -
Scott Gorrell “Pueo Hunting”
Honorable Mentions
Peter Bosted “Hawksbill Hatchling Enters the Ocean
Liz Miller “ʻAlalā Places a Star in the Lagoon Nebula”
Sarah Ko “Little Bird in the Wild World”
Margaret Russo “ʻIʻiwi Vase”
Jurorsʻ Choice
Robin Racoma “ʻĀhinahina”
2017 Adult Winners
Featured Category Kumulāʻau: Trees
Amateur
1st Place - Arah Ko, ‘Hale ʻŌhiʻa’
2nd Place - Philip Rosenberg, ‘Koa’
Professional
1st Place - Carol Treadway, ‘Pueo Visits Wiliwili in The Land of ʻIlima’
2nd Place - Mydock, ‘Milo Tree of Life’
General Native Species
Amateur
1st Place - Heidi Fickenger, ‘ʻElepaio’
2nd Place - Cody Yamaguchi, ‘ʻAmakihi and Māmane’
Professional
1st Place - Dominic Tidmarsh, ‘Study in Black and White’
2nd Place - Greg West, ‘ʻAmaʻu, Sadleria cyatheoids’
Honorable Mentions
Wendy Barske, ‘There Are No Words’
Sherry Partlow, ‘In Memory Metrosideros polymorpha’
Lynn Capell, ‘The Secret Life of Trees’
Jurorsʻ Choice
John Dawson, ‘Kīpuka Puaulu, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park’
2016 Adult Winners
Featured Category: National Parks Preserving Pilina
2D Professional
Honorable Mention -
Dennis Leatherman, “I ola 'oe, I ola mākou nei”
Lynn Capell, “Our Avian Friends - Hawaiʻi ʻAmakihi”
Robert Matinjussi, “ʻAlalā”
1st Place - John D. Dawson, “Into the Caldera”
2D Amatuer
Honorable Mention - Diana Miller, “Lava Coming to Life on the Coastal Plain”
1st Place - Heide Cumes, “Celebrating Kaloko-Honokohau”
3D Professional
Honorable Mention -
Nash Adams-Pruitt, “Wishing Up Some Creatures”
Maka Kahoilua, “Octo' Nut”
1st Place - John Strohbehn, “Pueo”
3D Amatuer
1st Place - Heide Cumes, “The ʻAlalā in Hawaiian Mythology”
General Native Species
2D Professional
1st Place - Bonnie Sol Hahn, “Storm Coming”
2D Amatuer
Honorable Mention - Karen Schuster, Faces of ʻAlalā II & III
1st Place - Carol Tredway, “ʻApapane in Māmane”
3D Professional
Honorable Mention - Howard Bradley, “Hāpuʻu hou”
1st Place - Mydock
3D Amatuer
1st Place - Margaret Russo, “Na ʻŌmaʻo”
Photography Professional
Honorable Mention -
Charlene Asato, “ʻUkiʻuki Portrait”
Barbara Schaefer, “ʻŌmaʻo in the Koa Forest”
1st Place - Charlene Asato, “Lehua in Mist”
Photography Amatuer
1st Place - David Ford, “Amakihi Down”
Jurors Choice
Dominic Tidmarsh, “Census”
2019 Youth Winners
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”
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”
2018 Youth Winners
Featured Category: Endangered Species of Hawaiʻi Island
Lower Elementary
Honorable Mention -
Milo Cole “King of the Forest”
1
st
Place
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Liam Bauer “ʻŌhelo Feast”
Upper Elementary
Honorable Mentions
Ezra Monello “Hawaiʻi ʻĀkepa”
Kade Economy “The ʻAlalā”
1
st
Place -
Harper Highfill “
Beaks of Hawaiʻi”
Middle School
Honorable Mentions
Duke Ridgley “Hawaiian Hoary Bat”
Maluhia Nahuina “Come Back”
1
st
Place -
Kamakani McKeague “Aeʻo”
High School
Honorable Mentions
Uʻilani Barongan “ʻAlalā”
Lilliana Galarneau “Nēnē”
1
st
Place -
Erica Greig “Mother and Baby Monk Seals”
General Native Species
Lower Elementary
Honorable Mention
-
Ava Dement “Koa Rainbows”
1
st
Place
-
Rhett Auth “ʻIʻiwi”
Upper Elementary
Honorable Mentions
Leilani Castillo “ʻAmakihi and ʻōhiʻa”
Hāwelelani Camara “Pulelehua”
1
st
Place -
Yuriy Russo “Humu”
Middle School
1
st
Place -
Kahealani Lidgett “Our Planet Our Hawaiʻi”
High School
Honorable Mentions
Shannon Augustin “ʻIʻiwi”
Nicholas Anderson “Aukuʻu”
1
st
Place
-
Maiya Amano “Light in the Woods”
Group Entry
Honorable Mentions
Jane Wellʻs 2nd Grade Class at Volcano School of Arts and Sciences
Laura Warnerʻs 3rd Grade Class at Volcano School of Arts and Sciences
1
st
Place
-
Ka Lā Hiki Ola “Working Together”
Jurors Choice
Hawaiʻi Academy of Arts and Sciences “Folio of the Endangered”
2017 Youth Winners
Featured Category Kumulāʻau: Trees
Honorable Mentions
Matoi Taguchi, ‘Untitled’
Haʻaheo School 6th Grade, ‘Our Forest’
1st Place - Isabella Mettler, ‘ʻIʻiwi in the Kaloko Forest’
General Native Species
Lower Elementary
Honorable Mention
Liam Bauer, ‘ʻAlalā Finding Food’
Hāwelelani Camara, ‘ʻIʻiwi and Lehua’
1st Place - Hāwelelani Camara, ‘Magenta Magic’
Upper Elementary
Honorable Mention
Ezra Monelo, ‘The Hawaiian ʻIʻiwi’
Sasha Shiroma, ‘Aeʻo’
1st Place - Saint Joseph School 4th Grade, ‘Hawai‘i Nei’
Middle School
Honorable Mention - Grace Merryman, "‘ʻĪlioholoikauaua’"
1st Place - Sofya Helms, "‘ʻElepaio’"
High School
Honorable Mention - Nanami Taono, ‘Sunny Day’
1st Place - Aimee Vicente Ito, ‘Untitled’
Juror's Choice
Miley Auth, ‘Māmaki’
2016 Youth Winners
Featured Category: National Parks Preserving Pilina
Youth
Honorable Mention -
Kea Kahoilua Clebsch, “Tropical Melody”
Blayden Grace, “The Hawaiian Nēnē”
1st Place - Kea Kahoilua Clebsch, “Happy Honu using oil pastels on canvas”
Group
Honorable Mention - Ha'aheo 5th Grade, “Our Pilina to our Island”
1st Place - Kumu Mariposa KOKL PCS `Ainaola blanco, “Endemic Edibles of HNP and Puna Makai”
General Native Species
Lower Elementary
Honorable Mention -
ʻOhiwai Camara, “Puʻu Koa Surprise”
Lilian Park, “Leaves”
Isabella Mettler, “ʻIʻiwi Bird”
1st Place - Hāwelelani Camara, “Udara Beauty”
Upper Elementary
Honorable Mention -
Enoch Kumpel, “Hawaiian Monk Seal”
Benjamin Wyatt, “Pueo Has Eyes On You”
1st Place - Enoch Kumpel, “Hawaiʻi Creeper”
Middle School
Honorable Mention - Phoebe Wyatt, “Hawaiian Lace”
High School
Honorable Mention - Aaron McLean, Honu
1st Place - Aidan Murray, “Nocturnal Protector”
Group
1st Place - Isabella & Heather Mettle, “Koa Bug”
Juror’s Choice
U'ilani Barongan, “Beautiful Destruction”
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