2026 Submissions
Self-taught
I made this piece based off my own experience as a black girl who plays guitar.
Alone in A Busy Store
This piece is the third installment in a larger sustained inquiry, meant to explore an experience of feeling separate or othered from one’s peers.
limitations
Starting this artwork, I looked back on the many limitations I have felt in my life: especially with my words.
Poppy Teapot
I was inspired to do a piece with poppies in memory of my dog, Poppy, who died.
Music and Emotions
I created Music and Emotions because I wanted to demonstrate how music can help you navigate challenges and overcome them.
Death Knows No Kings
This work references transit statues and sky burials, both are death rituals showing that no one is safe from death and rotting.
Beauty in Decay
The inspiration behind this piece is how growth and death are opposites, but still harmonize together.
The Cost of Advancement
The Cost of Advancement explores the discomfort between human innovation and the natural world, but more specifically the sacrifices human make while reaching industrial goals.
Global pollution
I wanted to bring awareness to how sea life is affected by climate change and human pollution.
The details that make me
For my art class, we were assigned to revise a painting that we had worked on over the summer.
Cloth Has No Gender
This piece is a figure drawing of one of my favorite music artists over the last few years of exploring my identity, Conan Gray.