Congratulations to the many student artists who participated in this year’s Creative Youth Awards! We are pleased to share the very long list of award recipients, representing a visual and performing arts. Awards are selected from among more than 2,000 submissions by a panel of renowned artists and is organized and funded by the Bay Area Creative Foundation. View their artwork on the Creative Gallery.
Creative Artist Award Tin Man ($1,000) 
Paloma Hatch (Sculpture, ’26) Fish Fur
Superior Award ($500)
Nadia Lichter (Creative Writing, ’28) trained eye
Avery McDermott (Creative Writing, ’28) Behind Closed Doors
Alex Kirsten (Photography, ’26) Quantum Vortex
Exceptional Award ($200)
Claire Bender (Creative Writing, ’26) Devoted
Kiyoshi Glenn-Horstein (Creative Writing, ’29) Three Poems: Currency, Omnivores, Exoticism
Lenore Marchant (Creative Writing, ’27) I tell time by houses
Kaison Marlow Eaves (Creative Writing, ’29) bone-dry rib
Mira Snider (Creative Writing, ’27) The Long Forsaken Recipe: Peace/Earth’s Abortion/In Thanks to Detritivores
Frances Sveinson (Creative Writing, ’27) Autopsy of an Artist
Ravi Tripathy (Creative Writing, ’28) A Horse Walks Into a Bar
Spense Peterson (Animated Film,’26) Allo’s Hunt
Darci Blackman (Photography, ’26) Brake Light
Roman Boyd (Photography, ’26) reflection
Anonymous (Photography) The Lone Warrior
Vida Ferrance (Photography,’26) Steps
Emi Hamelin (Photography, ’26) Beach Day
Sawyer Hession (Photography,’28) Tunnel Vision
Mia Ornellas (Photography, ’26) Golden Swarm
Disa Doan (Drawing & Painting, ’26) Pearly Whites
Becca Mark (Sculpture, ’26) Oedipus’s Grie
Special Award ($100)
Alexandra Boyett (Creative Writing, ’27) Tutu/Happy Birthday
Lilly Braly (Creative Writing, ’27) In The Garden of Eden, Eve Learns to Disagree/The Cruelty of Dreaming
Leslie De Jesus Sabido (Creative Writing, ’29) The Face Lost in the Sand
Declan Drey (Creative Writing, ’27) When the Fish Fought Back
Ruby Hirschfeld (Creative Writing, ’28) Loose Curls
Bea Pheatt (Creative Writing, ’29) guessing game
Juno Phipps (Creative Writing, ’26) the morning after/felled angel/when i’m naked
Ally Rae (Creative Writing, ’28) Vegetative
Sky Smuelwitz (Creative Writing, ’26) The Ways We Remember
Koharu Toshi (Creative Writing, ’29) The Glass Garden
Elin Zappelli (Creative Writing, ’29) Corrupted Eternity
Isiah Nabatian (Original Music, ’28) Fracture
Ethan Rostai (Original Music, ’26) Really?
Juniper Williard (Original Music, ’26) Happiness Drank
Noah Bikszer (Photography, ’26) Evangelion at Portsmouth Square
Lucine Briggs Freeman (Photography, ’29) The Warmth of Light
Anonymous (Photography) Our Lassitude
Gabby Flores (Photography, ’26) Corte Madera Car Show
Noah Lacore (Photography, ’29) Certain Slaint of Light
Landon Louton (Photgraphy, ’29) Growing Curiosity
Hunter Lynch (Photography, ’26) Sun Kissed
Jonny Malone (Photography, ’27) Morning Dew
Erik Melendez (Photography, ’28) A Glimpse of Solitude
Kate Metzger (Photography, ’26) Shaped
Alma Nabatian (Photography, ’26) Rattus Rattus Mortuus
Lucas Ramundo (Photography, ’26) In A Crowded World
Tyler Shaw (Photography, ’28) OVERSTIMULATED
Akhila Brahmandam (Drawing & Painting, ’26) Good Luck
Daphne Germer (Visual Art, ’29) Girl with Begonia
Angel Rosales (Sculpture, ’26) Scortched From Within