Numerous students earned awards in Mars Area School District’s 2025 Spring Art Show, held April 24 at Mars Area High School. Winners are as follows:

BEST IN SHOW

• senior Sydney Denk, “Provider.”

INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED

Drawing:

• • First Place — senior A.J. Nelson, “humans are connected with nature”
  • Second Place — senior Elizabeth Kelly, “Like What You See”
  • Third Place — junior Cosmo Zawitz, “Preying Mantis in Amber”
  • Third Place — senior Elizabeth Kelly, “Out in the Sun”
  • Honorable Mention — senior A.J. Nelson, “Life and Death”

Mixed Media:

• • First Place — junior Zoe Lutzic, “reACHING”
    Second Place — senior Chloe Karsman, “Fast Fashion”
  • Third Place — senior Logan Lutzic, “Deadline Debacle”
  • Third Place — senior Sydney Denk, “They’re Good Eatin’, Y’know”
  • Honorable Mention —­ senior Caroline Martin, “Bigger Picture”

Painting:

• • First Place — senior Sydney Denk, “Sweet Appalachia”
  • Second Place — senior Sarah Buttyan, “Can you see who I am?”
  • Third Place — junior Anya Ignatuk, “Untitled Kiss”
  • Honorable Mention — senior Chloe Karsman, “Mind of Imagination”
  • Honorable Mention — senior Elizabeth Kelly, “Am I Beautiful?””

3D:

• • First Place — senior Sydney Denk, “The 162nd Thanksgiving”
  • Second Place — senior Logan Lutzic, “Feeding the Rich”
  • Third Place — senior Logan Lutzic, “New Game, New You”
  • Honorable Mention — senior Elizabeth Kelly, “Behind the Glass”
  • Honorable Mention — senior Caroline Martin, “Trading Places”

Printmaking:

• • First Place — senior Dallas Grabowski, “Deer in Headlights
  • Second Place — senior Olivia Miller, “Show Your Love
  • Third Place — junior Cosmo Zawitz, “PREY”
  • Honorable Mention — junior Madisyn McAfee, “Catch My Breath”
  • Honorable Mention — sophomore Alyson Mazurek, “the owl”

EXPLORATORY / FUNDAMENTALS

Drawing:

• • First Place — freshman Rhythm Srivastava, “Celeste”
  • Second Place — junior Damian Cardentey, “Inverted Skyline”
  • Third Place — junior Damian Cardentey, “Morioh Coastline”
  • Honorable Mention — sophomore Natalie Hagen, “Dumbo Octopus”

Mixed Media:

• • First Place — freshman Max Shreckengost, “black abysses”
  • Second Place — freshman Rhythm Srivastava, “Betta Splendens”
  • Third Place — freshman Emma Sims, “Eternal”
  • Honorable Mention — freshman Keller Hibbard, “mountain”

Painting:

• • First Place — freshman Rhythm Srivastava, “Mitski”
  • Second Place — senior Grace Crawford, “The Whole Beyond Pieces”
  • Third Place — senior Emily Yazemboski, “untitled/ the French cafe one”
  • Honorable mention- freshman Avery Harrison, “Glacier Whale”

3D:

• • First Place — sophomore Juliette Montanez, “eye ball”
  • Second Place — senior Grace Crawford, “Drifting Constellationz”
  • Third Place — freshman Rhythm Srivastava, “koi fish”
  • Honorable Mention — freshman Annalise Cominskey, “johan”

ALL AGES 

Photography:

• • First Place — senior Olivia Miller, “Love in the Winter, Gone by the Spring”
  • Second Place — senior Hannah Wood, “To feel again”
  • Third Place — junior Anya Ignatuk, “A Perched Observation”
  • Honorable Mention — senior Marcus Spurgeon, “What’s Important…”

Digital Art:

• • First Place — freshman Rhythm Srivastava, “Alethia”
  • Second Place — senior A.J. Nelson, “colorful bug”
  • Third Place — senior Elizabeth Kelly, “Tara”
  • Honorable Mention — junior Zoe Lutzic, “Deonardo LiCaprio”

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