State-Wide Student Show
Congratulations to our 2023-2024 Student Winners!
Kindergarten
Abdur Ahmed
Teacher: Anne Meyer
Stevenson Elementary
Media: Painted heart with tempera paint
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1st Grade
Isaiah Peggar
Teacher: Theresa Fontana
River Trail School
Media: Mixed Media Potted Plants, 12in. X 18 in
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Daniel Jang
Teacher: Rebecca McNealy
Hickory Point Elementary
Media: Zoomed in flower with bee
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Melanie Wang
Teacher: Katherine Lindgren
Ivy Hall School
Media: Mixed Media Seascape made with oil pastels, watercolor markers, spray bottles, model magic and sharpie
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Juliet Kator
Teacher: Laurel Scigouski
McDole Elementary School
Media: red monochromatic winter landscape
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4th Grade
Kevin Gu
Teacher: Hillary Andrlik
Prospect Elementary
Media: A little orange monster eating two broken pencils.
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Osten Bien
Teacher: Rachel McKelvey
Everett Elementary
Media: Grey leopard oil pastel drawing, light grey, dark grey, black, white, light blue and brown at the bottom right hand corner, pink nose.
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Abby Barrueta
Teacher: Michael Freitag and David Kerkemeyer
Marion Jordan Elementary
Media: Abstract acrylic on board multi-colored
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Maya Gasienica-Daniel
Teacher: Heidi O'Hanley
Frank A. Brodnicki School
Media: Acrylic on Canvas, snowman looking up at the moon
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Giarely Godinez
Teacher: Laura Allan
North Elementary School, Villa Park
Media: bird on branch with chalk pastels
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Aminaa Dorjgotov
Teacher: Kelly Sabatini
Marie Murphy School
Media: Sharpie Marker Pointillism Portrait
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Ellie Habashy
Teacher: Liese Hearth
Eisenhower Jr High School
Media: Dragon Eye, made out of Model Magic and paint
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Leah Ryan
Teacher: Laura Frazier
Our Lady of the Wayside School
7th Grade
Eden Mpiranya
Teacher: Heidi Gustas
Bessie Rhodes School
Media: Watercolor crayon abstract landscape.
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Khyla Villaruel
Teacher: Sherri Kushner
Chute Middle School
Media: Underwater surreal cat world
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Kiara O’Connor
Teacher: Amanda Borchert
Old Quarry Middle School
Media: Ceramic Coral Reef Sculpture
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8th Grade
Audrey Murphy
Teacher: Brooke Young
Martino Junior High School
Media: Abstract Acrylic Painting on Canvas
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Emilia Beduch
Teacher: Elizabeth Farnesi
Wilkins Junior High
Media: Coloed Pencil Flowers and Wasp
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Lias Katz
Teacher: Theresa McGee
Hinsdale Middle School
Media: Japaneese House, low poly effect
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Sierra Dannelly
Teacher: Eryn Blaser
Orland Junior High School
Media: Mixed Media (Watercolor, Sharpie, and Collage)
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Taylor Strapp
Teacher: Donna Davis
Still Middle School
Media: Girl wearing a pencil shaving dress.
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Aidan Quach
Teacher: Aaron Kolkay
Oswego High School
Media: Mixed media drawing incorporating a shaded red Asian temple representing the letter A. Wrapping around the temple is a dragon made up of warm colors with hints of green. Borders to the left and to the right create a woven basket impression and the borders at the top and bottom reflect bamboo and the night sky. The drawing is created and finished with a mix of colored pencil and sharpie.
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Chloe Basenberg
Teacher: Michael Berry
Zeigler Royalton High School
Media: Alcohol marker drawing of a lady in a lounger
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Claudia Quimby
Teacher: Frank Bush
Henry Senachwine High School
Media: Oil Pastel still-life of a vase of Sunflowers
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Lily Fienhold
Teacher: Amber Akes
Marion High School
Media: Light painting using lights in the dark
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Rachel Chen
Teacher: Irene LaPapa
Metea Valley High School
Media: Colored Pencil Still Life drawing on white paper.
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Alia Goldberg
Teacher: Grahame Wilkin
Aurora Christian High School
Media: Acrylic Painting
Ashley Flores
Teacher: Tiffany Insalaco
Bloom Trail High School
Media: Gouache painting with light of a train ornament
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Melanie Chaidez
Teacher: Rebecca Healy
Homewood Flosmoor High School
Media: Oil painting of a tadpole
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Sophia Gray
Teacher: Michele Morris
Willows Academy
Media: Ink artwork using the stippling ink technique skill showcasing a cereal bowl, fruit loops, and a spoon with shadows.
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Aniya Davis
Teacher: Libby McArthur
Evergreen Park High School
Media: It is a Digital Photograph. It is a typology showcasing 24 students hair styles and diversity
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Jessica Dove
Teacher: Daniel Whipple
Oswego High School
Media: Human skeleton gazing upward with arms reaching toward the top left of the painting as golden rays of light beam down with glowing orbs around.
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Kalae Killingham
Teacher: Heather Stanich
Oswego East High School
Media: When creating this piece I wanted to capture what it looks and feels like for African Americans when they wash/do their hair. Washing and detangling afro textured hair is an all day process, and it can be painful to part, but it is worth it to maintain healthy beautiful hair.
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Lillyan Goodgrade
Teacher: Kerry Parrish
Crystal Lake Central High School
Media: Photograph
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Meradith Cunnally
Teacher: Judd Shutt
Crystal Lake Central high School
Media: Digital Illustration created in Procreate
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George Roby
Teacher: Greg Haut
Rockford Lutheran School
Media: A maple medium hardwood Islamic Box
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Jaaniyah Tyler
Teacher: Candi Helsel-Wilk
Homewood Flossmoor High School
Media: Black and white photo. Close up facial portrait behine chain link fence.
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Jenna Lovell
Teacher: Michael Skura
Oswego High School
Media: Watercolor, of a female figure that has hands toward an upward look with a worms eye view from the viewer.
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Micah Wallace
Teacher: Lindsay Patterson
Sacred Heart Griffin High School
Media: Digital Art
Read moreStudent Video & Animation Showcase
Submission Details & Rules for the 2024 Short Videos & Animations Showcase:
Teachers:
- You must be an IAEA member and teach K-12 art
- You must teach at an accredited public, private or charter school
- Student’s Artwork must be created this school year
If selected:
- You will be sent a link to a Teacher Information Google Form to gather this information:
- Your contact information
- Contact information about your student and principal
- a short lesson description of your student’s chosen artwork
- an Artist Statement, if your student wrote one
- You will be asked to forward a link to your student’s parents/guardians for their permissions
- NEW THIS YEAR: If selected, your Teacher Information Form & your student’s Parent Permissions Forms MUST BE COMPLETED BY MONDAY, JULY 1, 2024
Recognition:
- @ the 2024 IAEA Conference
- Saturday, October 19, 2024, Bloomington
- Before the Student Art Show Award Ceremony & Reception, TBD
- Your student’s video will be featured in the Student Video & Animation Showcase
- You and your student will be recognized on stage
Judging the show:
- Our judges look for work that demonstrates creativity, originality, craftsmanship, personality and communicates an idea.
- Our judging is blind… judges see the grade level & the program used
Submitting:
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- 5 videos and/or animations per teacher
- Videos may be created by individual students or small groups
- (don’t forget grade level for each student, please)
- Submissions should be in .mov, .mp4, .m4v, or gif format.
- Images, video footage, audio files must be 70% created by student (any other supporting media must be copyright free).
- Length of media submission:
- 1 minute or less @ Elementary Level
- 3 minutes or less @ Middle School & High School Level
- Videos and/or Animations must have been created during the 2022-2023 school year
- Label EACH Video/Animation with the following information IN THIS ORDER, please:
- Teacher’s first & last name, School’s name, Student’s first & last name, student’s grade level, Digital Program used & sound/no sound indication
- 5 videos and/or animations per teacher
- EXAMPLE:
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- 1. Susan Tiemstra, your school, student’s first & last name, student’s grade level, FlipaClip, No sound
- 2. Susan Tiemstra, your school, student’s first & last name, student’s grade level, FlipaClip, Sound
- Etc. up to 5 videos and/or animations
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- Upload video/animations to ONE FOLDER in Google Drive or Dropbox. Get the link for the FOLDER containing ALL videos/animations (not just one). Please turn sharing settings so anyone can view. You will use this folder link in the submission form.
- Submissions OPEN: Monday, April 29, 2024
- Submissions CLOSE: Friday, May 24 @ Midnight
- Notifications: Friday, June 21, 2024
- Our mission is to advocate for Art Teachers teaching Art Curriculum in all Illinois Schools K-12.
- Our intent is to showcase 1st grade -12 grade videos & animations that exemplify best practice throughout the state.
2024 Submissions Have Closed at this time.
2024-2025 IAEA Statewide Student Art Show Info
Teachers:
- You must be an IAEA member and teach K-12 art
- You must teach at an accredited public, private or charter school
- Student’s Artwork must be created this school year
If selected:
- You will be sent a link to a Teacher Information Google Form to gather this information:
- Your contact information
- Contact information about your student and principal
- a short lesson description of your student’s chosen artwork
- an Artist Statement, if your student has either written one or made a video
- a photo or selfie of you for a slide show… full body or from the waist up
- parents/students will be asked for a photo or selfie also
- I will ask you to forward a link to your student’s parents/guardians for their permission & releases this year
- NEW THIS YEAR: If selected, your Teacher Information Form & your student’s Parent Permissions Form MUST BE COMPLETED BY FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2024
- You will need to mail your student’s actual 2D artwork or photograph of your student’s 3D artwork to me by Friday, June 30th.
- NO actual 3D artwork will be displayed. A photograph of the piece will be matted and framed.
- All 2D artwork and photographs of 3D artwork will get matted professionally, and inserted into IAEA frames to be viewed.
- You and your student will be recognized at the 2024 IAEA Conference Statewide Student Art Show Ceremony & Reception:
- October 19th, 2024 in Bloomington, IL
- The framed pieces will travel to locations throughout Illinois.
- All original artwork will be returned in November 2026 after traveling.
- NEW THIS YEAR: Copies of digital artwork and digital images of 3D artwork WILL NOT BE RETURNED.
- A slide show will be created and located on the IAEA Website.
Judging the show:
- 45 student artworks will be chosen by the judges.
- Our judges look for work that demonstrates creativity, originality, craftsmanship, personality/voice, and communicates an idea.
- Our judging is digital and blind regarding the artists’ identity.
- Please make sure that your images do not have any identifying information on them
- Only the medium and grade level is known to the judges
Submitting:
- Select up to 10 of your students’ 2D artworks & 3D/sculptural works.
- Note: Regarding AI for this year – AI may be used minimally to support idea generation, but AI generated artwork itself alone should not be submitted as original artwork.
- Only photographs of 3D work will be accepted, not the original piece for safety sake.
- Artworks may not be thicker than ½” and all student artwork and/or photographs of 3D work must fit into an 18” x 24” metal frame.
- The submission form allows for the submission of 10 images at one time, so you only need to submit 1 form with your information, and because each image will be labeled, you will not need to repeat information into the form… uploading the image will do it!
- Labeling instructions are listed below.
- Good images… a really good/publication ready photo of each piece is needed, cropped and ready for the slide show! This image, if chosen, will go straight onto the website, into the slide show, into the Conference program, and onto special surprises we have in store for you and your student artist, so this is really important!
3 Videos to help with taking photographs of student artwork … just click on each image.
- Label EACH image with the following information IN THIS ORDER, please:
- Teacher’s first & last name, School’s name, Student’s first & last name, student’s grade level, medium
EXAMPLE:
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- 1. Susan Tiemstra, your school, student’s first & last name, student’s grade level & medium
- 2. Susan Tiemstra, your school, student’s first & last name, student’s grade level & medium
- 3. Susan Tiemstra, your school, student’s first & last name, student’s grade level & medium
- Etc. up to 10 images
- Artwork will NOT be accepted without labeling on each image!
- If you’re having trouble, please email me @ [email protected]
- or check out these 2 videos:
- “Labeling Your Student’s Artwork on Your Desktop” https://youtu.be/_Sh-jJHPE2E
- “Labeling Your Student’s Artwork in Photos” https://youtu.be/Rok70s4Yi8k
- or check out these 2 videos:
- If you’re having trouble, please email me @ [email protected]
Deadlines:
- Submissions OPEN: Monday, Feb 19th
- Submission DEADLINE: Friday, April 26, 2024 @ midnight
- Judging Window: Monday, April 29 – Monday, May 6 @ 8am
- Notification: by Friday, May 10, 2024, by Midnight
- The Submission Window is 10 weeks long.
- Teacher Information Form & Parents’ Permissions Forms Due: Friday, May 17, 2024
- Curating the show:
- Our mission is to advocate for Art Teachers teaching Art Curriculum in all Illinois Schools K-12.
- Our intent is to showcase as many different art teachers and their students as possible from K-12 with works that exemplify best practice throughout the state.
- Therefore, if chosen, you will only be chosen once.
- If you handle all of the submissions for your Art Department or District, please make sure that each teacher’s name is associated with the correct student’s name & that each member you are submitting for is a member of IAEA.
Advocating for The Arts: The Traveling IAEA Student Art Show:
- Your student’s piece will travel to locations throughout the state of Illinois in a slide show from November 2022- August of 2023.
Questions? Email Susan Tiemstra @ [email protected] or text to 1-630-732-5718
You may submit photographs of 3D Student Artwork as part of your submission of “Up to 10 Pieces of Student Artwork” for the Student Art Show!
These Photographs of 3D pieces must follow
the same guidelines
as any of the 2D artworks you submit
TIPS and image examples for submitting a good photograph of your students’ 3D work are provided by IAEA Member, Dawn Zalkus.
- Choose the best single point of view of your 3D object. Do not composite multiple points of view
- Shoot on a neutral background: white, black, grey or a gradient.
- Look for a contrast between the art object and the background.
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- If within your budget purchasing a small light tent is helpful (around $100, like this(https://www.amazon.com/Fovitec-StudioPRO-Portable-Photography-Lighting/dp/B00TADBN54?ref_=fsclp_pl_dp_13)). The tent helps cut down the glare associated with glazed ceramic or shiny works.
- Consider asking your theater department or video department to shoot against their curtains.
- Larger pieces may need to be taken to an outdoor seating such as in nature, against an industrial looking wall or even on a flat cement floor like in the instance of the panther.
If you have any questions, please email Susan Tiemstra @ [email protected]
Submissions for the 2024 Student Art Show are closed at this time.
2022 Student Film & Animation Winners Showcase!
Leo Liu, 8th Grade
Teacher: Theresa McGee, Hinsdale Middle School
Andrew Siebert, 4th Grade
Teacher: Laura Allen, North School
Noah Hynd & Emma Abraham, 8th Grade
Teacher: Linda Williams, Prairie Grove JH
Nikky Donev, 7th Grade
Teacher: Linda Williams, Prairie Grove JH
Kristy DeLaTorre, 3rd Grade
Teacher: Laura Allan, North School
Whitney Carpenter & Valeria Castellano, 12th Grade
Teacher: Michaela Gomez, Danville High School
Reese Zaleski, 7th Grade
Teacher: Linda Williams, Prairie Grove JH
Makenna Hoogerwerf, Andrew Smith, & Kaitlyn Von Nordheim, 10th-11th-12th Grade
Teacher: Margaret Kuchan, Washington Community High School
Kelly McCarthy, 12th Grade
Teacher: Libby McArthur Evergreen Park Community High School
Thank you to our student show sponsors who provided art gifts for winning students and teachers!
