Youth Art Expo 2025
We welcome any participants from ages K-12 including specially challenged and home schooled students. At Our first expo in 2019 we had 176 entrants. We had to skip 2020 & 2021 because of Covid but in 2022 we had 136 entrants.
YAE affords children an opportunity to enter a Juried show just like adult artists who display their work at the annual outdoor REDLANDS ART FESTIVAL and the Redlands Art Association ART IN THE PARK on Memorial Day weekend. Even though the show is Juried for winners in each age group, all entries are displayed and all participants receive certificates in our exhibition and Activity tent at the festival on memorial day weekend.
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2024 Chalk Art Competition
The festival’s Chalk Art Competition was a vibrant showcase of young talent, as children transformed sidewalks into colorful masterpieces inspired by famous paintings. Part of the Youth Arts Expo and sponsored by the Redlands Festival of Arts, the event encouraged creativity and artistic expression in a fun, hands-on way. A heartfelt thank you to all the children who participated—your enthusiasm and talent made this event truly special! The Margaret Clark Art Education Enrichment Fund is proud to recognize the winners who impressed judges and audiences alike with their creativity and skill. Our winners are, Brenda Politano, "Queen Sansa's First Portrait"; Kailey George, "Brain Damage"; Mia Altenbach, "Inverted Color Mix"; Ahlani Garcia, "Rise of the TMNT.*" Proceeds from the festival support youth art education, with more than 30 grants awarded since 2013, ensuring that young artists continue to have opportunities to learn, grow, and create. To the left are some participants.
*Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
2025 Youth Art Expo Winners
Best in Show
Kindergarten-5th Grade
Jackson Grenfell
‘Santa Barbara Mission’
6th Grade – 12th Grade
Eva Rodriguez
‘The Princess of Childhood’
6th Grade –
8th Grade
1st Prize
Fuhan Xue
“Oscar Howe”
2nd Prize
Hancock Li
“Praying Hands”
3rd Prize
Sophia Che
“Embracing Peace”
Honorable Mention
Rhiannon Haire
“A Peaceful Place”
Kindergarten –
2nd Grade
1st Prize
Aubrey Wang
‘Birds Singing Spring’
2nd Prize
Yesmeena Alshyoukh
Untitled
3rd Prize
Elizabeth Guo
‘My Family'
Honorable Mention
Rickesh Taj Gehlot
’Bananas'
9th Grade –
12th Grade
1st Prize
Anna Song
“Homesick”
2nd Prize
Rhyan Reed
“The Shadow of the Forest”
3rd Prize $50
Tyler Kalanjian
“Veiny Paint”
Honorable Mention
Kouture Rudedas
“Wave Over Face”
3rd Grade -
5th Grade
1st Prize
Eva Tacchia
“Echos of Self”
2nd Prize
Maximilian Velasco
“Rainy City”
3rd Prize
Calvin CEO O’Donnell
“Our Camp Site”
Honorable Mention
Yuhong Pan
“Comics: Super Duper Beats”
High School 3D Art
1st Prize
Amber Phillips
“The Jolly Gator”
2nd Prize
Shyla Cerbantes
“Blue Glazed Bust”
3rd Prize
Clarise Cameron
“Whale Shark”
Honorable Mention
Maya Francisco
“Fairy House” (cookie jar)
2025 special award for unique interpretation, use of color and materials
Trinity Hernandez
Sculpture
‘Quetzalcoatl Y Xolotl’
Redlands High School 12th Grade
"This sculpture depicts the iconic twin Aztec gods Quetzalcoatl and Xolotl. My purpose for chosing this pair is their mythology, however most of which has been lost to time. It's this loss of the mythos and records that greatly interested me, but it also greatly saddened me. Much of it has been lost to time through the natural progression of civilizations, but far more had been destroyed by conquistadors and the dismantling of the Aztec empire. I used what we know of the pair to sculpt this piece, taking from the known colors and remaining depictions." —Trinity Hernandez
This event was first organized in 2019, for MCAEEF by Annette Weis and co-organizers, Suzanne Burke and Tom Gillett. Volunteer RAA teachers and artists were on hand to help set up activity stations so kids could come and paint on easels, rocks, do printmaking and other mediums. Families let us know how absolutely delighted they were with this opportunity to see how their children demonstrate their creativity. Students were excited to enter and not only win recognition but to show off their artwork. Winners receive cash prizes with certificates.
This event illustrates why we fund art education in our schools and community. We believe that the innate creativity in each child should be encouraged at an early age and continued in the classrooms which enhances their regular classroom studies of language, math and science.
