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2026 Award Winners
High School Visual Arts Competition
Ceramics
Best in Show
Light, Chloe Haydon
Daniel Hand High School
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1st Place - Functional: Grandpa's oatmeal & Curious lingerers, KC Comerford - Daniel Hand High School
1st Place - Sculptural: Entire Body of Work, Madelyn Stone - Valley Regional High School
2nd Place: Middle Earth, Oz Ferris - Guilford High School
3rd Place: Sapphire, Meredith Thompson - Lyme-Old Lyme High School
Honorable Mention: Untitled Mug, KC Comerford - Daniel Hand High School
Honorable Mention: Book Store Fairy House, Bethany Erkkila -- Valley Regional High School
Honorable Mention: The Shephard, Oz Ferris - Guilford High School
Honorable Mention: Steward Outdoor Day School (Fairy House), Addie Guzallis - Valley Regional High School
Honorable Mention: Teapot, Joao Ruiz - Coginchaug Regional High School
Honorable Mention: Sweetness, Maegan Miller - Middletown High School
Digital Media
1st Place: Mutation, Sasha Ribeiro - Middletown High School
2nd Place: Metamorphic Flight, Sasha Ribeiro - Middletown High School
3rd Place: Woven Seascape, Liam Jordan - Haddam-Killingworth High School
Honorable Mention: Vital: Gaming Concept, Quinn Andersen - Branford High School
Honorable Mention: Follow the light, Chase Barone - Branford High School
Honorable Mention: Lady Macbeth's madness, Sasha Ribeiro - Middletown High School
Drawing
1st Place: Modern toy maker, Marleigh Piacenza - Lyme-Old Lyme High School
2nd Place: Fishy Morning, Emma Vittorio- Guilford High School
3rd Place: Manufactured Envy, Sienna Bari - Lyme-Old Lyme High School
Honorable Mention: Symbol of Death, Lauren Belval - Lyme-Old Lyme High School
Honorable Mention: Argentic Union: Caught , Adam Brown - Valley Regional High School
Honorable Mention: Mylar Balloon, Grace Brown - Daniel Hand High School
Honorable Mention: Folded In, Trevor Buydos - Lyme-Old Lyme High School
Honorable Mention: Still Life Drawing, Seth Coulombe - Haddam-Killingworth High School
Honorable Mention: The Studio, Ryleigh Degnan - Haddam-Killingworth High School
Honorable Mention: School Work, Clementine Lavezzoli - Valley Regional High School
Honorable Mention: Common Day, Grace Osborne - Lyme-Old Lyme High School
Honorable Mention: Frog, Evangeline Papke - Portland High School
Honorable Mention: Thirteen, Chloe Ryan - Lyme-Old Lyme High School
Honorable Mention: Reassurance, Carli Teixeira - Lyme-Old Lyme High School
Honorable Mention: Self-Portrait, Christian Tolliver - Haddam-Killingworth High School
Mixed Media
1st Place: Intrusive Thoughts, Anna Bothamley - East Hampton High School
2nd Place: Last Exit for Forgotten, Lawton Duch - Haddam-Killingworth High School
3rd Place: The divine fault line, Brooklynn Smith - Guilford High School
Honorable Mention: looking back at me, Max Bartlett - Lyme-Old Lyme High School
Honorable Mention: Minnesota Red Ball, Josephina McGee - Valley Regional High School
Painting
1st Place: Moribund, Sophia Shaposhnikova - Lyme-Old Lyme High School
2nd Place: Veil, Chloe Haydon - Daniel Hand High School
3rd Place: Portrait of the Rubin Family and Geno Auriemma, Ana Cyr - Middletown High School
​Honorable Mention: Creation of Rat, Oz Ferris - Guilford High School
Honorable Mention: Dress Up, Chloe Haydon - Daniel Hand High School
Honorable Mention: Creators Desk, Olivia Johnson - Daniel Hand High School
Honorable Mention: Faces In The Garden, Olivia Johnson - Daniel Hand High School
Honorable Mention: Bare Bones, Brooklynn Smith - Guilford High School
Honorable Mention: Zion, Sonya Xaypanya - Valley Regional High School
Honorable Mention: Cows, Sonya Xaypanya - Valley Regional High School
Photography
1st Place: A frigid Night, Lucio Sanchez - Branford High School
2nd Place: Untitled, Michael Johnson - Haddam-Killingworth High School
3rd Place: Fishbowl, Camille Dalton - Branford High School
3rd Place: Shades of Orange, Lucy Mitchell - Branford High School
Honorable Mention: Parking lot haunt, Tucker Davis - Westbrook High School
Honorable Mention: black eyed susan, Karissa Sehl-Albert - Haddam-Killingworth High School
Honorable Mention: Aspiring Guitarist, Jude Davie - Branford High School
Honorable Mention: Timeless Rarities of The Spring, Shayla Torres - Branford High School​
Printmaking
1st Place: Roadkill, Ryleigh Degnan - Haddam-Killingworth High School
2nd Place: The Proud Retaliation and Sharing of Wealth, Lawton Duch - Haddam-Killingworth High School
3rd Place: The Chaos of Despair, Rebecca Mitchell - Haddam-Killingworth High School
Honorable Mention: mother and child, KC Comerford - Daniel Hand High School
Honorable Mention: Plight of the Pigeon, Norah Ridgeway - Haddam-Killingworth High School
Woodworking
1st Place: Body of Work, Everett Barden - Guilford High School
1st Place: Body of Work, Owen Barden - Guilford High School
Ruth Baxter Tagliatela Award
Anna Bothamley, Corporate Candy - East Hampton High School
Earl Grenville Killeen Founder's Award
Clare Stone - Daniel Hand High School
Judy Streeter Outstanding School Award
Jason Cannan, Megan Martin
Haddam-Killingworth High School