Past Contest Winners

2018 Adult Winners

Featured Category: Endangered Species of Hawaiʻi Island
Amateur

2nd Place - Kathleen Mishima “ʻŌhāwai”
1st Place - Bret Mossman “ʻĀkepa o ka Ua”

Professional

2nd Place - Mydock “Endangered Species - Habitat on fire
1st Place - Jack Jeffrey “Mauna Kea Silversword”

General Native Species
Amateur

2nd Place - Robin Scanlon “Stay strong ʻōhiʻa”
1st Place - Adriane Skinner “Pūpū pōniuniu”

Professional

2nd Place - Liz Miller “Hidden Life on Mauna Loa”
1st 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”

2018 Youth Winners

Featured Category: Endangered Species of Hawaiʻi Island
Lower Elementary

Honorable Mention - Milo Cole “King of the Forest”
1st Place - Liam Bauer “ʻŌhelo Feast”

Upper Elementary

Honorable Mentions
- Ezra Monello “Hawaiʻi ʻĀkepa”
- Kade Economy “The ʻAlalā”
1st Place - Harper Highfill “Beaks of Hawaiʻi”

Middle School

Honorable Mentions
- Duke Ridgley “Hawaiian Hoary Bat”
- Maluhia Nahuina “Come Back”
1st Place - Kamakani McKeague “Aeʻo”

High School

Honorable Mentions
- Uʻilani Barongan “ʻAlalā”
- Lilliana Galarneau “Nēnē”
1st Place - Erica Greig “Mother and Baby Monk Seals”

General Native Species
Lower Elementary

Honorable Mention - Ava Dement “Koa Rainbows”
1st Place - Rhett Auth “ʻIʻiwi”

Upper Elementary

Honorable Mentions
- Leilani Castillo “ʻAmakihi and ʻōhiʻa”
- Hāwelelani Camara “Pulelehua”
1st Place - Yuriy Russo “Humu”

Middle School

1st Place - Kahealani Lidgett “Our Planet Our Hawaiʻi”

High School

Honorable Mentions
- Shannon Augustin “ʻIʻiwi”
- Nicholas Anderson “Aukuʻu”
1st 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

1st 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”