Visual Arts

Ordered by Age Group then first name alphabetically. District places under name.

Primary Age Group

Primary Entry (Longacre Elementary School)

Antonio Smelley

Title: Antonio's Planet

Details: Markers

Artist Statement: I will change the world by creating my own planet people can live on and everyone can be happy. The grass will be rainbow color and the sky will be rainbow colored to.

Primary Entry (Hillside Elementary School)

Anvi Kourla

District Place: 4th Place

Title: I Will Change the World by Planting More Trees.

Artist Statement: Trees give oxygen and make people healthy.

Primary Entry (Forest Elementary School)

Brennan Lamey

Title: For My Mom

Details: Drawing

Artist Statement: I made this drawing for my mom so my mom would be happy. I can change the world by doing nice things for people I love. When they are happy I feel happy and I like that.

Primary Entry (Longacre Elementary School)

Chakshitha Rajasekar

Title: I Will Change the World Being Kind

Details: 13 H X 14 W in Inch

Artist Statement: I will change the world being kind. Helping other people.

Primary Entry (Hillside Elementary School)

Gordon Xavier Drossos

Title: A World of Seasons

Artist Statement: When the leaves change in the fall it is beautiful. People changing is how the world can grow and change.

Primary Entry (Forest Elementary School)

Korbin Sasina

Title: Vaccines & Hugs

Details: Drawn with sharpies and colored pencils

Artist Statement: I'm going to change the world by getting everybody vaccines, so people can be safe and go hug their friends.

Primary Entry (Farmington STEAM Academy)

Liliana Harkness

Title: Treasure Hunt

Details: Art done with oil pastels

Artist Statement: This art is a map of a treasure hunt. I will change the world by giving treasures and money to people around the world who need it.

Primary Entry (Farmington STEAM Academy)

Liliana Harkness

Title: Giraffy

Details: Cartoon character of a giraffe done with pen and markers.

Artist Statement: I want to change the world by caring for animals and making sure we keep the animals, like giraffes, alive. I want to make sure we have enough animals and more animals for everyone because animals make people happy.

Primary Entry (Kenbrook Elementary School)

Lillian Szabo

Title: The Land of Loving

Details: Mixed media, pencil and crayon on paper- 8.5inx11in

Artist Statement: I will change the world by loving

Primary Entry (Farmington STEAM Academy)

Luke Schuur

District Place: 2nd Place

Title: Cleaning Up Our World For Animals

Details: Paper, pencil, paint sticks on mat board. Drawing of me cleaning up the earth and origami animals around the earth. 14"x20"

Artist Statement: I can change the world by cleaning up trash. It helps the earth and animals. I circled the origami animals around the earth to represent that the earth is clean and the animals are happy.

Primary Entry (Lanigan Elementary School)

Mila Hack

Title: I Can Change the World...with Love!

Details: visual arts dimension: 8 1/2 by 11, caption 4 by 8

Artist Statement: I will change the world with love by helping my classmates.

Primary Entry (Hillside Elementary School)

Rachel Anna Rimka

Title: All Shades of Brown Are No Different from Each Other

Artist Statement: The picture is representing hands from different countries and how they are working together to make the world a better place.

Primary Entry (Gill Elementary School)

Sai Laya Mohanraj

District Place: 1st Place

Title: Love and Kindness

Details: acrylic painting

Artist Statement: I can change the world by “ giving some love to all”

Primary Entry (Kenbrook Elementary School)

Samyog Pathak

Title: Helping the world

Details: Pencil and crayon on paper

Artist Statement: How my work relates is that I will change the world by being in the government and telling people to stop littering and stopping pollution.

Primary Entry (Gill Elementary School)

Swara Kadam

District Place: 3rd Place

Title: Plant Trees & Save Water

Details: Size 9x12 in

Artist Statement: Planting Trees: I would like people around me to come forward and plant more and more trees and to make our environment clean & Green. Saving water: we need water for our daily needs , so don't waste water & use water in useful ways to drink & plant trees

Primary Entry (Kenbrook Elementary School)

Veronica Schoettle

Title: Be Who You Want

Details: Created using Procreate on iPad gen 9

Artist Statement: I can change the world by letting everyone know they can be who they want to be. So they can feel like themselves and they don’t need to be exactly like anyone else.

Intermediate Age Group

Intermediate Entry (Hillside Elementary School)

Aditya Ponsiva Aravind

Title: COVID -19 - Vaccine Gel

Artist Statement: I would like to extinct COVID 19 virus like the way dinosaurs had been extinctic from this world. Due to this pandemic, people lost their lives. Hospitals were also full of patients. This COVID has affected people lungs. Some scientists have discovered that vaccine is the only way to fight this virus. We should be vaccinated to keep ourselves and everyone safe, but kids will get hurt when they get as shot. So, they may be scared to get vaccine. I would like to invent the vaccine in a rub or gel form.

So that many Adults and kids get vaccinated and this virus will be out of this world.

Intermediate Entry (Kenbrook Elementary School)

Alena Yaldo

Title: Smile

Details: Pencil on paper

Artist Statement: Your smile can change the world.

Intermediate Entry (Forest Elementary School)

Alina Kashif

Title: People Around Me!

Details: The medium of my art are colored pencils, marker, oil pastels and paper. The dimension of my work is 11 ½ X 9 inches.

Artist Statement: People around me speaks different languages and dress up different ways and I noticed sometimes they have a hard time to express their feelings. People make fun of others because of how they dress, look and speak. That’s when I come in standing up for the right just like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King J.R.

Intermediate Entry (Forest Elementary School)

Alyssa Davis

Title: Make a Difference Planting Trees

Details: Pencil and marker on paper. Dimensions are 8 1/2 x 11 (standard size paper).

Artist Statement: I will change the world by planting more trees. In my drawing, I show some people planting a tree in a neighborhood. There are many reasons why trees are important to everyone. Trees give shade in the summer when it is hot and give protection from winter winds. Trees make clean air to breathe. Trees provide homes to many animals like squirrels and birds. Not to mention, trees add beauty to the world. That is why trees are important and why we need to plant more trees.

Intermediate Entry (Farmington STEAM Academy)

Amelia Daunt

Title: The Love for the World

Details: Student created Shrinky Dink art of the world, heart, peace sign, and a bee. To represent the way she would change the world (her description above) she then attached her art to a necklace.

Artist Statement: Make peace shine. Protect the bees. Love the world. The world must shine

Intermediate Entry (Farmington STEAM Academy)

Ariha Jhaveri

Title: MY PERFECT WORLD !!!

Details: Pencil

Artist Statement: If I had to change the world, you probably want me to say something like don't waste electricity and don't waste water when you're brushing your teeth or help people in need but I think lots of people already do that because whenever I go to someone's house I don't see them wasting electricity or wasting water. To help people in need, me and my family always donate our clothes and some people donate their hair to cancer patients too. So if I really had to choose how would I change the world I wouldn't really want to change at all because the world is already perfect to me.

Intermediate Entry (Gill Elementary School)

Brooke Marshall

Title: Making A Bright Future

Details: Watercolor.

Artist Statement: My piece shows me picking up litter that was covering a hole of hope. I wanted to illustrate one of the world's biggest problems - pollution. We can destroy the earth just by littering. Isn't that horrible? This has been happening since the 1950's! We can stop it by cleaning up.

Intermediate Entry (Gill Elementary School)

Clark Long

Title: Music will change the world

Details: 8.5 x 11 in. watercolor and marker

Artist Statement: I like drumming. I will change the world by... making music. It will inspire people to inspire other people. Music will spread happiness.

Intermediate Entry (Longacre Elementary School)

Izabella King

Title: We're Better Together

Details: Collage, 22" x 28"

Artist Statement: My collage shows how I have helped change the world. I helped my neighbors by raking leaves and doing garden work. With the Optimist Club, I made blankets for shelters and sang carols at a senior home. In Girl Scouts, we accomplished a lot of things like giving toys to families who don't have toys and donating food. Doctors and nurses help people, especially during the pandemic. Being kind, helpful and caring are all good things to change the world!

Intermediate Entry (Hillside Elementary School)

Lexie Chang

Title: Wild and Free

Artist Statement: My painting relates to the theme because I want to change the world by teaching others the importance of wild animals and their habitats. We can not survive with out animals but people are destroying wild animals and their habitats. The horse in my painting is a wild mustang. These horses are on the endangered species list because they are being chased off their land using helicopters resulting in death or being captured and sold. :(

Intermediate Entry (Kenbrook Elementary School)

Logan Bogardus

District Place: 3rd Place

Title: If I could change the world

Details: Marker and pencil on paper

Artist Statement: I think that my art relates to the theme because it shows my beliefs and how I would change the world by them. The girl represents the activist who fight for their rights and beliefs. The water represents a powerful force that how a drip can cut through a mountain if given the time. In my drawing it represents the will of the people fighting to create positive change in the world.

Intermediate Entry (Hillside Elementary School)

Mary Daley

Title: Good Food

Artist Statement: I will change the world by planting good food

Intermediate Entry (Longacre Elementary School)

Parth Aghara

District Place: 2nd Place

Title: I Will Change The World By--

Details: Visual Art -11inch * 14 inch

Artist Statement: Stop pollution and save world .Do not throw trash anywhere.

Intermediate Entry (Longacre Elementary School)

Pyka Schwartz

Title: "Unpolluted"

Details: Oil Pastel on foam poster board, found plastic objects/trash, glue

Artist Statement: "We all need to work together to keep our planet clean. Especially our oceans, lakes, rivers, and water systems. On the right you can see happy red fish swimming in clean water. There is a green trash can on the beach to collect waste. On the left you can see sad fish, attempting to swim through all the garbage and plastics that are in the water. We can "Unpollute" our planets waters by being mindful, learning, and getting involved! it is ALL our responsibility!

Intermediate Entry (Gill Elementary School)

Reece Long

District Place: 4th Place

Title: The World I Saved

Details: 8.5 x 11 in. watercolor, oil pastel, marker

Artist Statement: I will change the world by saving the world. Sometimes you may think that you are to young to make a difference, but you are wrong. Even the tiniest little things can make a difference in the world, like recycling and not littering. For example, I like to reuse whatever I can. What better way to change the world than saving it? My picture represents the life, and nature that you can save by making just a small difference. And besides, it is good to start with something!

V-I-Great Friends Helping Out 2

Intermediate Entry (Forest Elementary School)

Temperance Paulson

Title: Great Friends Helping Out

Details: Colored Pencils

Artist Statement: I will change the world by helping the environment. I will keep the whole community happy and safe by picking up trash and I will ask my friends and family to help

Intermediate Entry (Kenbrook Elementary School)

Victor Szabo

District Place: 1st Place

Title: Team Seas

Details: Folded paper, wood and string. 19inx13inx6in

Artist Statement: Lots of people throw their trash in random places and it often ends up in oceans or lakes. The seas are dirty. And I want to prevent that from happening with this piece of art. I want to change the world by cleaning up the environment. Global warming is happening because people are throwing their trash wherever they like and I want to use this piece of art to motivate people to take a few steps to the trash can instead of throwing it in the environment .

Intermediate Entry (Farmington STEAM Academy)

Yashika Yaramala

Title: Saving the Environment

Details: I drew my artwork on white paper and used colored pencils.

Artist Statement: How my art piece relates to the theme is that changing the environment and making it more beautiful and better for the future will have a big impact which will affect the world in a more beneficial way. Remembering that the future of the world is in our hands, the good or bad deed we do will come back to us; depending on what we did to the environment.

Middle School Age Group

Middle School Entry (Warner Middle School)

Asher Singer

District Place: 4th Place

Title: Cleaning Our Oceans

Details: drawing using mechanical pencil and colored pencil

Artist Statement: I will change the world by cleaning our oceans. The left side of my drawing features a lionfish, an invasive species living in a polluted ecosystem. This is what our oceans will look like if we don’t take action. The right side highlights a Maldivian clownfish, a beautiful fish symbolizing the clean habitat our oceans could be if we make a difference. Living in the flourishing coral reef are many other endemic animals. Let’s reduce our output into the oceans, reuse items and recycle, to restore our oceans and move from the left to the right side of my drawing.

Middle School Entry (Power Middle School)

Francisco Rodrigues

Title: Polluted Earth

Details: a cartoon of a polluted earth, markers and A4 paper.

Artist Statement: In the picture that i drew, it describes what the world is going through as climate change continues to rise. I believed we will see a green earth like my drawing in the bottom of the page. I will change the world by be optimistic.

VA-Mid-Polluted Earth.pdf

Middle School Entry (Farmington STEAM Academy)

Gabriela Stakvel

District Place: 3rd Place

Title: Sharing What You Love

Details: My art is a painting and I used acrylic paint on a canvas.

Artist Statement: My art showcases sharing things I love with others. I believe that when you share things you love with the world, the world grows more positive, and love continues to spread throughout.

Middle School Entry (Warner Middle School)

Jonathan Fang

District Place: 2nd Place

Title: Re-sketching the World

Details: Paper: Canson 9" x12" Watercolor Paper; Medium: Watercolor; Other: Sakura Micron Pens, Gellyroll White Gel-pen; Inspirations: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

Artist Statement: In this art gallery, there are seven paintings. Six of those paintings are of negative thoughts: violence, pedophilia, etc. In the foreground, there are two workers: One removing a scene of violence, and the other replacing it with a handshake. Another detail was that the "negative" paintings had shadows to the right, whereas the lighting forces the shadows onto the opposite side. This signals that the negative thoughts are incorrect and shouldn’t be tolerated. The scenery suggests I want to replace the negative emotions in the world with positive counterparts. This is what I want to change about the world.

Middle School Entry (Farmington STEAM Academy)

Lilly Resnick

Title: Painting on the world

Details: My piece contains alcohol based markers, regular markers, pen, paint and pencils

Artist Statement: My art piece resembles how the world is so bad now but then when the paint gets on the world it just becomes better. The world becomes better because of the rainbow paint dripping down from the front of the world, because there’s a lot of things wrong with the world but there’s a lot of good things so the paint shows all of the good things that is in the world but then the world itself shows all the bad things around it.

Middle School Entry (Warner Middle School)

Robby Dicks

District Place: 1st Place

Title: Looking Within

Details: In this avant garde piece, I used four yards of black and multi-colored premium cotton for the body of the blazer and two yards of the sparkly black tulle for the train. I also attached 88 butterflies on to the train and a few on the main part of the blazer.

Artist Statement: In this piece, each element has something to do with finding your inner self. The black parts such as the black background on the butterfly fabric are meant to represent hiding your inner/true self. The Glittery tulle is meant to represent seeing the true you inside of yourself. The 2D butterflies are meant to represent opening up and accepting your inner self. Finally, the 3D butterflies are meant to represent your inner self and blossoming. This piece is meant to show the world could be a better place if you are true to yourself.

Middle School Entry (Power Middle School)

Shipra Valli Putrevu

Title: View of the World

Details: Visual Arts- sketch on a paper (9 in X 12 in )

Artist Statement: I can change the world by changing my perspective about myself,people around me and life itself.

VA-Mid-View of the World.pdf

High School Age Group

High School Entry (Farmington High School)

Braeden Shea

District Place: 4th Place

Title: The Little Things

Details: Dark marker on paper

Artist Statement: Each time someone is helped, the day gets a little brighter. You never know what the future may bring or what might bring someone to greatness, so start small. If you help, even when it might not matter, you improve yourself and your nature will spread. For example, some species of lizard are quickly becoming endangered and helping out the one that rolled from the nest might save a species. A drop of kindness can clean the world if we make it happen.

High School Entry (North Farmington High School)

Brianna Murphy

District Place: 2nd Place

Title: A Voice for the Voiceless

Details: 9in x 12 in canvas, watercolor paint, acrylic paint

Artist Statement: A Voice for the Voiceless represents how I would like to be able to speak out for people who feel they have no voice. In the painting, there are people who have been forced silent, and there are people who have chosen to silence themselves. Regardless of that, the girl in the middle has spoken out for all of them.

High School Entry (North Farmington High School)

Mary Jo Takeuchi

District Place: 1st Place

Title: Growth

Details: Gouache and Watercolor, 11 in x 15 in

Artist Statement: I will change the world by improving myself. When I was thinking about the issues in the world, I noticed that the majority of them are caused by our own actions. My artwork represents personal growth. In Buddhism, lotus flowers symbolize enlightenment and purity. It teaches that we're born into a world of suffering, and that we must rise above it with a pure spirit. We may not be able to change others’ actions, but we can change ourselves to improve the world.

High School Entry (Farmington High School)

Peter Brandal

Title: Environmental Footprint

Details: Color pencil drawing on paper 17X11.5 with matting size 18x12.5

Artist Statement: People have polluted the world and we rarely do anything about it. Everywhere I go, I always see some sort of garbage littering the ground. My piece shows, that if people put in the effort, we could rid the world of litter. Hosting or volunteering in groups that pick-up trash, can help the cause. Another way to help is to limit the trash being created. We can encourage companies to switch to recyclable products and reuse certain products ourselves. When everyone comes together for one cause, we can change the world one small action at a time.

High School Entry (North Farmington High School)

Reid Weaver

District Place: 3rd Place

Title: The Magic of Storytelling

Details: Digital art, 2048 px by 2048 px.

Artist Statement: I thought about the given theme: “I can change the world by…” And the first thing that came to mind was storytelling. Complex narratives have been a big influence on my life, so much meaning can go into a story even if not explicitly said. A story can inspire its reader, give them new perspective, or even just simply make them happy. My piece depicts a very traditional story. A knight is venturing onwards towards a cave to face off against a mighty Dragon. Two children are experiencing this story in the form of a large book.

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