2008 Illinois High School Results

The Fine Art Finals Scholarship Committee is pleased to announce the Finalists and Winners of the very first high school competition, the 2008 Fine Art Finals Illinois High School Scholarship Competition.  It was a difficult decision, however, seventeen Finalists were chosen out of the many outstanding entries submitted, and of those seventeen, three were chosen for Scholarship Awards.  We proudly congratulate the following artists and their high schools as they all represent the best of Illinois.

FIRST PLACE
$500 to Student, $250 to High School
Mother
Colored Pencil - 11.5" x 9"
Paulina Wrobel - Reavis High School - Burbank, IL

SECOND PLACE
$250 to Student, $125 to High School
Underwater Escape
Acrylic and Fabric on Canvas - 24" x 30"
Talissa Shaull - Tremont High School - Tremont, IL

THIRD PLACE
$125 to Student, $50 to High School
Enough
Clay Sculpture - 11.5" x 7" x 4"

Mollie Baumann - Carbondale Community High School - Carbondale, IL

FINALIST
Cat-Fly
White Talc Clay, Acrylics, Wire, Mesh Sculpture - 7" x 4"
Julie Alberti - Geneva Community High School - Geneva, IL








FINALIST
Music
Acrylic on Canvas - 42" x 60"
Trevor Alward - Stewardson Strasburg High School - Stewardson, IL






FINALIST
Nested
Oil  and Grass on Canvas - 40" x 40"
Joshua Banks - Bloom Trail High School - Chicago Heights, IL






FINALIST
Self-Portrait
Acrylic on Canvas - 16" x 20"
Michelle Brylewski - Reavis High School - Burbank, IL






FINALIST
Nickname Fatts
Computer Imaging - 8" x 10"
Hayden Cardwell - Rock Falls High School - Rock Falls, IL






FINALIST
A Discarded Dream
Graphite - 8" x 10"
Thomas Hirsch - Glenbard South High School - Glen Ellyn, IL






FINALIST
Untitled
Acrylic and Collage - 16" x 20"
Lacey Lee - St. Joseph-Ogden High School - St. Joseph, IL






FINALIST
Fairy
Graphite - 21" x 30"
Kalie McGinnis - Vienna High School - Vienna, IL






FINALIST
Still Life
Tempura Paint - 11.5" x 15.5"
Izabela Mikolajczyk - Reavis High School - Burbank, IL






FINALIST
La Pince Machine
Acrylic
Sam Moore - Metamora Township High School - Metamora, IL






FINALIST
Outside of the Box
Marker and Watercolor - 9" x 9"
Ian Penrod - Cisne High School - Cisne, IL






FINALIST
Daydreaming
Acrylic on Canvas - 12" x 36"
Ana-Maria Radu - Niles Township West High School - Skokie, IL







FINALIST
Still Life
Colored Pencil - 13.75" x 18.75"
Pamela Torres - Reavis High School - Burbank, IL





FINALIST
Self Portrait
Paper Collage - 8.5" x 11"
Christopher Volek - Luther East High School - Lansing, IL