Young Artists of Hawaiʻi Exhibit

Hawaiʻi State Art Museum, Honolulu 2022

Young Artists of Hawaiʻi is an annual student art competition and exhibition. Presented by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority, and the Native Imaginative, this program recognizes creative excellence among Hawaiʻi’s prublic and private school students, kindergarten through sixth grade.

The theme of this year’s Young Artists of Hawaiʻi statewide art competition was “What does good leadership look like?” With seventeen selected works, Island School made up for almost twenty percent of the overall exhibit!

Wainohia Cobb-Adams, First Grade Sophia Kua, Fifth Grade Tavale Harris, Fifth Grade

Leiana Dabin-Green, Second Grade Kulea Karratti, First Grade Karson Feutz, Fourth Grade

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Jazmine Pedersen, Sixth Grade Griffin Bowers, Fifth Grade Gemma Kirkcaldie, Third Grade

Declan Meyers, Fifth Grade Kaelin Mentzer, Fifth Grade

Alexandra Tzeng, Second Grade Damie Haumea, Kindergarten

Aylin Gulari, Kindergarten Alia Evslin, Second Grade

Pictured right: elementary and middle school art teacher, Kara Swink with her students at the Young Artists of Hawaiʻi Exhibit on Oʻahu

Aylwen Fife, Fifth Grade

Kahanohaweo Cobb-Adams, Third Grade

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