2D Art News: Photography and Art Students, College Earn Recognition

Greenhill 2D college students and school have just lately earned recognition in a number of prestigious regional, nationwide, and worldwide competitions, highlighting this system’s creativity, technical talent, and inventive imaginative and prescient. Congratulations to all the scholars who had been acknowledged within the numerous competitions.

Scholastic Arts and Writing
The Scholastic Arts and Writing contest acknowledges college students within the arts, with hundreds of submissions nationwide. Students compete for scholarships and placement in single print and portfolio divisions. The following college students earned awards:

• Isabel Bhatia ’26: Silver Key – Photography, Learning to Look at Myself
• Megan Czuchlewski ’26: Honorable Mention – Graphic Design, Book Calendar
• Mariel Salim-Gomez ’27: Gold Key – Photography, Holding Generations Together
• Ahan Jain ’27: Gold Key – Photography, Crossing
• Lydia Kerridge ’27: Silver Key – Painting, Lost within the Woods
• Sumeda Rapuri ’26: Honorable Mention – Photography, Girl in Bloom
• Dani Reiman ’27: Honorable Mention – Drawing, Surrounded by Fear
• Renee Tse ’28: Gold Key – Drawing, Potential
• Yeva Uppal ’28: Honorable Mention – Drawing, My Culture
• Athena Yu ’28: Gold Key – Photography, Sand Meets Cement; Honorable Mention (3 complete) Photography, Night Market, Falling Leaves Floating Dreams, Blurry Dreams and Neon Lights

Fort Worth Country Day Black & White Images Exhibition
The 2026 Fort Worth Country Day Black & White Images Exhibition is an annual juried competitors showcasing black-and-white pictures by highschool college students from private and non-private colleges throughout the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. Established in 1989, the exhibition gives college students a chance to share their work, change concepts with friends, and exhibit their pictures in classes starting from portraiture and photojournalism to panorama, nonetheless life, and experimental work. The following college students earned awards:

• Wesley Black ’29: Honorable Mention – Landscape + Cityscape
• Ahan Jain ’27: Third Place – Experimental
• Javi Johnson ’27: Best in Show; First Place and Honorable Mention – Experimental

2026 YoungerArts National Competition
The 2026 YoungerArts National Competition acknowledges excellent younger artists throughout the United States via a rigorous, multi-round adjudication course of led by panels of distinguished artists. Winners are chosen for the caliber of their inventive achievement and obtain money awards starting from $250 to $10,000, together with ongoing artistic {and professional} assist via the YoungerArts community. Top award recipients are additionally invited to take part in National YoungerArts Week. Isabel Bhatia ’26 was awarded a Winner with Distinction award for Photography.

Additionally, Sumedha Rapuri ’26 earned Honorable Mention and took part in a YoungerArts New York Lab, a four-day, all-expense-paid workshop in New York City for chosen YoungerArts artists. The program brings collectively rising artists from throughout disciplines to collaborate with skilled artists, discover multidisciplinary approaches to artmaking, and develop new work although artistic classes, museum visits, and group tasks.

United States Presidential Scholars Program
The United States Presidential Scholars Program was established by the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars and is run by the United States Department of Education. The program acknowledges a number of the nation’s most distinguished graduating highschool seniors for his or her achievements in lecturers, the humanities, and profession and technical training. Candidates submit functions for evaluation, with roughly 600 college students advancing to semifinalist standing and as much as 161 finally named U.S. Presidential Scholars every year. Isabel Bhatia ’26 was named a candidate for this prestigious nationwide recognition.

Fall Contest (Association of Texas Photographic Instructors)
The Association of Texas Photographic Instructors hosted the Fall Contest with 6,700 entries from throughout the nation, Canada, and Great Britain. Beginning and Advanced college students competed throughout divisions with a mess of Greenhill Photography inserting and successful:

Advanced

• Nora Ahearn ’26: 2nd Place – Portfolio
• Isabel Bhatia ’26: Third Place and Honorable Mention – Fine Art/Environmental Portrait
• Josiah Christian ’27: Honorable Mention – Still Life
• Javi Johnson ’27: Honorable Mention – Documentary/Street Photography; 2nd Place – Formal/Studio Portrait; third Place – Portfolio; Honorable Mention – Student Life
• Sumedha Rapuri ’26: Honorable Mention – Landscape
• Adam Strauss ’26: Honorable Mention – Travel
• Miles Wilson ’27: Honorable Mention – Documentary/Street Photography

Beginning

• Saleem Basit ’30: Honorable Mention – Travel
• Judah Beck ’30: 1st Place – Landscape
• Hannah Beckman ’30: Honorable Mention – Open
• Walker Black ’31: 1st Place – Travel
• Stella George ’30: third Place – Landscape
• Irina Li ’26: Honorable Mention – Fine Art/Environmental Portrait
• Chait Mohan ’31: Honorable Mention – Open
• David Smolensky ’30: Honorable Mention – Open
• Sruthi Thangamuthu ’30: Honorable Mention – Landscape; Honorable Mention – Open

LensCulture Art Photography Awards 2026
Greenhill pictures school artist Frank Lopez has been acknowledged internationally for his work within the LensCulture Art Photography Awards 2026, which honors photographers whose work expands and reimagines the chances of photographic artwork.

Presented by LensCulture, the awards spotlight distinctive photographers and visible artists from all over the world whose work demonstrates innovation, technical mastery, and inventive imaginative and prescient. Selected by a global jury of curators, editors, and pictures professionals, this 12 months’s honorees symbolize a variety of latest photographic practices and views. Read the full article here.