Art Contest Winners from NPHS

Newbury High School Visual Arts Students did great in regional art shows. These shows are open to both public and private high schools in the region.

Hang With the Best was the most competitive for photography in its several decades history.

2023 Hang With The Best Student Art Show Winners

Scarlett Malcolm

Greg Cole Memorial Award $200

Mahee Kanchi

Second Place – Photography $75

Rilyn Spaeth

Third Place – Photography $50

2023 Westlake Village Art Guild Student Art Show Winners

Lauren Berreth

Third Place – Color Photography $50

Jorge Martinez

Honorable Mention – Color Photography $25

Autumn Corbett

Honorable Mention – Color Photography $25

Nathan Marko

Honorable Mention – Color Photography $25

Ellie Park

Honorable Mention – Color Photography $25

2022 Hang With The Best Student Art Show Winners

Rachel Goldstein

Greg Cole Memorial Award $200

Yaeli Dukler

3rd place drawing $100

2022 Westlake Village Art Guild Student Art Show Winners

Evelyn Hsu

Best of Show $250

Ailish Hawkins

1st Place – Monochrome Photography $100

Sage Patel

2nd Place – Color Photography $75

Tiana Hoang

Honorable Mention – Color Photography $25

The Westlake Village Art Guild Show is a a juried show, so finalists are selected from all entries turned in. So it is a high honor to even be in this show. To see all the finalists’ images, click on these links below. NPHS students finalists are:

2D/3D Finalists: Yaeli Dukler, Jonah Germann, Rachel Goldstein, Anna Li, and Evelyn Hsu

2D and 3D Art Finalists

Photography Finalists: Emily Kulhanek, Tiana Hoang, Kallyn Thomason, Benjamin Mudgett, Molly McNulty, Trisha David, Sage Patel, Joyce Pastora, Lauren Whetten, Brady Craven, Ava Crowley, and Ailish Hawkins

Photography Finalists

Here is a link to all the winners from all the high schools:

Winners’ Gallery

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2021 Art Show Winners

The two art shows listed here are entered by high schools in the region, both public and private. Congrats to our NPHS visual arts students!

2021 Hang With The Best Student Art Show Winners

Paige Householder – First Place Photography ($200)

Carter Kawaguchi – Second Place Photography ($100)

Toni Ang – Best Technical Mastery in Photography

Mike Flores – Best Technical Mastery in Photography

Reese Reddemann – Best Technical Mastery in Photography

Tiana Hoang – Most Evocative and Provocative Photography

Tyler King – Most Evocative and Provocative Photography

Colin Au – Best Interpretation of a Natural Environment in Photography

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2021 Westlake Village Art Guild

Student Art Show Winners

Rita Valencia-Reyes – Second Place Color Photography ($50)

Madelyn Janisse – Honorable Mention Color Photography ($25)

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All these students were juried into the Westlake Village Art Guild Student Show – only a select few get in from the hundreds of entries.

These are all the students from NPHS who were juried in and their images are either above or in the gallery below:

Tiana Hoang, Cole Kessler, Mia Woomer, Mia Vrataric, Elizabeth Cano, Rytha Bhatty, Madelyn Janisse, Rita Valencia-Reyes, Rachel Goldstein, Anna Li, Evelyn Hsu, Keeva Kerrigan-Mize, Kylie Adegoke, Toni Ang, and Payton Justrich

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Rachel-Goldstein

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Evelyn-Hsu

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Rytha-Bhatty

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Elizabeth-Cano

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Keeva-Kerrigan-Mize

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Kylie-Adegoke

Tiana-Hoang-drawing

Rachel-Goldstein

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Ang_Antonia_A-Plastic-World

Keeva-Kerrigan-Mize

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Congrats to Madelyn Janisse!

She is one of only 30 individuals selected out of over 1500 applicants from across the US to have her work projected in several cities around the nation.

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This was a national contest put on by Amplifier which seeks to raise the voices of youth by allowing them to express themselves via image in such a turbulent time of our history. This is was organized by renowned National Geographic Photographer Aaron Huey.

The images were projected recently in such cities as Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Anchorage, and Seattle. The images in this gallery show her photo projected on the walls of these various places.

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2018-19 School Year

All competitions are open to all high schools (public & private) in the region

Scholarship Winners:

Wilhelmina Schwind won 2nd Place in the Arts Council of Conejo Valley Legacy Scholarship ($1000)

Melody Hellard the “First Generation to Go to College
Scholarship” sponsored by Art Trek ($5000)

Westlake Village Art Guild 2019 Student Art Show Winners

Wilhelmina Schwind
1st Place – 2D Fine Art ($100)

Cami Davis
2nd Place – Color Photography ($75)

Rida Ismail
Honorable Mention – Color Photography ($25)

Liam Carter
Spirit Award ($100) and
Judge’s Award

Hang With the Best Student Art Show Winners 2019

Blake Roper
Barbara Sullivan Memorial Award ($200)

Melody Hellard
Greg Cole Memorial Award ($200)

Wilhelmina Schwind
1st Place – Drawing ($100)

Nicole Lewis
2nd Place – Painting ($75)

Cami Davis
3rd Place – Photography ($50)

Sophie Kiley
3rd Place – Painting ($50)

2017-18 School Year

Congressional Art Competition – 2018

Annie Sun

– Winner –

CA Congressional District 26

This is the fourth year in a row a NPHS student has won this prestigious award!!!

Her image will hang in the Washington DC Capitol Building for a year and she will be flown

back to attend the ceremony

Katelyn Mehner
– Runner Up –

Joshua Welcher
– Runner Up –

3 of the 5 finalists are from NPHS

click on this link for the press release:

Press Release

Julia Brownley, Annie Sun, & Jennifer Lee (Annie’s Art Teacher)

Westlake Village Art Guild 2018 Student Art Show Winners

This show was open to all high school seniors and juniors (in both public and private schools) in the greater Conejo Valley.

Annie Sun

Best in Show ($200)

AND Greg Cole Memorial Award ($200)

Nivi Shaham

Cultural Arts Excellence in Art Award ($200)

Tommy Joseph

2nd Place – Color Photography ($75)

Gannon Tovey

Honorable Mention – Black & White Photography ($25)

John Lazo

Honorable Mention – Black & White Photography ($25)

Connor Leeds

Honorable Mention – Color Photography ($25)

Tam Le

Honorable Mention – Color Photography ($25)

John Lazo

Judge’s Spirit Award

Fiona Bonn

Judge’s Spirit Award

Hang With the Best Student Art Show 2018

Ava Cooper

1st Place – Photography ($200)

Annie Sun

1st Place Painting – ($200)

Angelina Powers

1st Place – Drawing – ($200)

Aiden Wright

Barbara Sullivan Award ($200)

Billy Busse

2nd Place – Photography ($100)

John Lazo

2nd Place – Photography ($100)

Amy Peterson

Arts Council of Conejo Valley Choice Award ($100)

Celeste Cortez

3rd Place – Photography ($75)

Alyssa Banaszkiewkz

3rd Place – Photography ($75)

Jacob Mai

Honorable Mention – Photography ($50)

2016-17 School Year

Westlake Village Art Guild 2017 Student Art Show Winners

This show was open to all high school seniors and juniors (in both public and private) in the greater Conejo Valley. It is a juried show and only one in three images entered got in to compete. NPHS had 27 entries make it in, the highest number of any school. Super competitive.

The NPHS winners are below:

Annie Sun

1st Place – 2d Fine Art ($100)

Zoie Wong

1st Place – Digital Imaging ($100)

Rachna Despande

2nd Place – Color Photography ($75)

Brandon Ly

3rd Place – Color Photography ($50)

Hang With the Best Student Art Show 2017

This show is open to all secondary schools in Ventura County and all the way down the 101 to Calabasas (public, private, and home schools)

Jake Stencel

1st Place – Photography ($200)

Hana Sugioka

1st Place – Graphics ($200)

Evelyn Zhai

Barbara Sullivan Award ($200)

Jenny Gavin

Arts Council of Conejo Valley Top Choice ($100)

Blair Rocheleau

Arts Council of Conejo Valley Top Choice ($100)

Annie Sun

Greg Cole Memorial Award ($200)

McKenna Farnham

Hillcrest Center for the Arts Staff Favorite ($50)

Kendyl Sing

2nd Place – Photography ($100)

Zoie Wong

Zoie Wong

2nd Place – Photography ($100)

Devon Cabelli

3rd Place – Photography ($50)

Skyler Wood

2nd Place – Ceramics/Sculpture ($100)

Hannah Bashforth

2nd Place – Painting ($100)

Ashley Jackson

3rd Place – Photography ($50)

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Ashley Geraldo

3rd Place – Drawing

2015-16 School Year

Congressional Art Competition – 2016

Andy Cho

– Winner –

CA Congressional District 26

His image will hang in the Washington DC Capitol Building for a year and he will be flown

back to attend the ceremony

Annie Sun

Runner Up

Hang With the Best Student Art Show 2016

Jessica Han
1st Place – Painting & Greg Cole Memorial Award
($200)

Amanda French
3rd Place – Photography ($50)

Ethan Duffy
Delta Kappa Gamma, ETA PSI Chapter of TO Award
($100)

Photographer’s Forum Magazine Fall 2015 Student Competition

These students are finalists for the Photographer’s Forum Student Competition

Their photos will be published in a book with the other finalists

Andy Cho

Brandon Chen

Madison Hutchinson

Monetha Raghani

(this image is directly referencing the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo)

Congressional Art Competition – 2015

Jessica Han

– Winner –
Her image hangs from June 2015-June 2016 in Washington DC Capitol

Ernesto Ambrocio – Runner Up

2014-15 School Year

Westlake Village Art Guild 2015 Student Art Show Winners

NPHS photography did extremely well this year, taking home 7 of the 11 photography awards and also winning a memorial award. NPHS students had a full one third of all entries to make it into this juried show (24 pieces). The next closest school had 16 entries make it in.

Jessica Page 1st Place – Color Photography ($100)

Michaela Juels Honorable Mention Color Photography ($25) AND Greg Cole Memorial Award ($200)

Maddi Spangler 2nd Place Color Photography ($75)

Monetha Raghani 3rd Place Color Photography ($50)

Paul Schneider Honorable Mention Color Photography ($25)

Alex Monji 2nd Place – Monochrome Photography ($75)

Jamie Baker Honorable Mention Monochrome Photography ($25)

Jessica Han Third Place 2-D Art ($50)

Gil Torten 3rd Place 3-D Art

To see all the winners from all the high schools, click on this link:

2015 Student Award Winners

Hang With the Best Student Art Show Winners 2015

Andy Cho 1st Place Photography ($200)

JingJing Wu 2nd Place 2-D Art ($50)

Alex Monji 3rd Place Photography ($25)

Cameron Badner Honorable Mention Photography ($15)

Reilly Jones Hillcrest Center Staff Favorite ($25)

Westlake Village Art Guild 2014 Student Art Show Winners

Allison Paulson

1st Place Black & White Photography ($100)

Ryker Wall

2nd Place Black & White Photography ($75)

Jonny Byrne

3rd Place Black & White Photography ($50)

Kevin Norgaard

2nd Place Color Photography ($75)

2013-14 School Year

Hillcrest Center for the Arts

Hang With the Best (2014) Student

Art Show and Contest

Competition is drawn from all of Ventura County

NPHS students won the majority of the awards handed out

Photography

Graphics

Watercolor/Drawing

Janss Marketplace Youth Art Walk Winner and

Conejo Valley Days Winner

Jessica Han, 9th grader

Janss Marketplace Youth Art Walk

First Place

$200 cash, $200 in gift cards to Janss Marketplace Stores

$400 cash given to Jennifer Kaye’s art program

Jessica Han and Jennifer Kaye Receiving their FAT CHECKS!

Tara O’Gorman

Winning Conejo Valley Days Pin Design

She was named Junior Grand Marshall of CVD and received a stack of tickets to the Event

Attended the VIP Party for CVD

2012-13 School Year

Westlake Village Art Guild Winners 2013

Students competed with all high schools in the Conejo Valley including LA County

First Place: Black and White Photography

by Sam Prasopthum

“Skate or Die”

Second Place: Color Photography

by Rachel Ranucci

“Hidden Identity”

Honorable Mention: Color Photography

by Jonny Byrne

“Breaking Point”

Honorable Mention: Color Photography

by Quinn Levin

“In the Clouds”

Our Own Larry Berlin’s photos in California Diving News!

Congrats, Larry! This is the second time he has been published in a dive magazine for his photographic prowess

Conejo Valley Arts Council

Hang with the Best 2013 Winners

NPHS took home the lion’s share of the awards this year!

1. Jazmin Clarito, Special Award-Digital ($100)

2. Jessica Han, First Place-Painting ($200)

3. Krista Jolley, First Place-Drawing ($200)

4. Haley Wurst, Second Place-Drawing ($75)

5. Elena Dick, First Place-Mixed Media ($200)

Photography Winners

Henry Horita, First Place ($200)

Jonny Byrne, Third Place ($25)

Kevin Davila, Third Place ($25)

Fran Gonzanlez, Honorable Mention ($15)

Jaclyn Lee, Honorable Mention ($15)

Carly Crandall, Honorable Mention ($15)