Exhibition: April 3 – May 4, 2025
Boulder Valley School District and The Dairy Arts Center are proud to present the annual art exhibition featuring works by high school students and faculty. Works on display include paintings, drawings, mixed media, digital art, animation, photography, ceramics, sculpture, and more!
Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) comprises 56 schools spread across 500 square miles and 11 communities, including Boulder, Erie, Lafayette, Louisville, Superior, Broomfield, Nederland, and mountain communities. Schools offer a variety of arts programming: visual arts in a variety of media, performing arts, fashion design, aesthetics, theatre, and music.
The high schools participating in the exhibition include Arapahoe Ridge High School, Boulder High School, Boulder TEC, Broomfield High School, Centaurus High School, Fairview High School, Monarch High School, Nederland Middle-Senior High School, New Vista High School, and Peak to Peak Charter School.
Guest Judge: Todd Edward Herman
Todd Edward Herman is a visual artist and curator. He is the founding director of East Window Gallery and co-founder of Sins Invalid Performance Project.
Todd has been the recipient of many awards for his work including the San Francisco International Film Festival’s New Vision and Golden Gate Awards, the Art Council of Northern Ireland’s Artist in Residence Award, Grants from the San Francisco Film Arts Foundation, the Boulder Colorado Arts Commission, a Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowship, Taipei Artist Village Residency, and the San Francisco Art Commission’s Emerging Curator Award. He has presented his work at such venues as RedLine Contemporary Art Center, The Dairy Arts Center, Leon Gallery, The International Film Festival Rotterdam, San Francisco International Film Festival, Southbank Centre, Anthology Film Archives, San Francisco Cinematheque and Pacific Film Archives.
Award Winners
🏆 Best in Show
Cecelia Baumgartner, Boulder High School
✏️ Drawing
- 1st Place: Kennedy Holtsnider, Centaurus High School
- 2nd Place: Blake Will Yoder, Centaurus High School
- 3rd Place: Lily Rini, New Vista High School
- Honorable Mention: Logan Conigliaro, Peak to Peak Charter School
🎨 Painting
- 1st Place: Ellemijn Hooykaas, New Vista High School
- 2nd Place: Michelle He, Fairview High School
- 3rd Place: Sophie Tchang, New Vista High School
- Honorable Mention: Nathan Van Damme, Boulder High School
🖼️ Mixed Media
- 1st Place: Austen Maybee, Boulder High School
- 2nd Place: Rowan Furumo-Poston, Arapahoe Ridge High School
- 3rd Place: Ethan Muller, Boulder High School
- Honorable Mention: Mathilde Abiragi, Fairview High School
🏺 Pottery
- 1st Place: Grace Coleman, Broomfield High School
- 2nd Place: Ethan Gorton, Fairview High School
- 3rd Place: Brynley Steele, Centaurus High School
- Honorable Mention: Piper Bradford, Boulder High School
🧱 Sculpture / 3D Media
- 1st Place: Nina Eslinger Fernandez, Broomfield High School
- 2nd Place: Luke Raimond, Centaurus High School
- 3rd Place: Throw A Wrench In It!
Group Sculpture: Mark Falco-Price, Cameron Kirk, Amanda Walker, Maia Olson, Kylee Hartmann, Liv Hall, Amelie Hunziker – Monarch High School - Honorable Mention: Max Hawkins, Centaurus High School
📷 Photography
- 1st Place: Angus Barringer, Boulder High School
- 2nd Place: Vanessa Sanchez, Centaurus High School
- 3rd Place: Porter Hahn, Monarch High School
- Honorable Mention: Max Hawkins, Centaurus High School
💻 Digital Art
- 1st Place: Ash Ballew, Monarch High School
- 2nd Place: Cameron Simpson-Klein, Peak to Peak Charter School
- 3rd Place: Carson Remund, Peak to Peak Charter School
- Honorable Mention: Beck Mastrine, Centaurus High School
🎬 Animation / Moving Image
- 1st Place: Isabel Kembel-Rodriguez, Fairview High School
- 2nd Place: Nick Fomby, Orion Davis, Matthew Parcells, Fairview High School
- 3rd Place: Julian Palomino, Monarch High School
- Honorable Mention: Norah Wilton, Centaurus High School
🎥 Film
- 1st Place: Owen Daniels, Boulder TEC
- 2nd Place: Noa Lininger, Boulder TEC
- 3rd Place: Eloisa Samper, Boulder TEC
- Honorable Mention: Aurella Charnick, Samuel Durbin, Boulder TEC