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
2024 Youth Art Expo Winners
Best in Show
Kindergarten-5th Grade
Plaque & $75
Olivia Munoz, age 8
‘My Little Galaxy’
Granite Mountain Charter School
6th Grade – 12th Grade
Plaque & $100
Kailey George, age 18
‘Conflicted’
Redlands High School
6th Grade –
8th Grade
1st Prize $75 Isla Palenscar, age 13,’Wishes In The Wind’ Cope Middle School, Redlands
2nd Prize $50 Josie Osborn, age 12 ‘Lizard Skin’ Montesorri School, Redlands
3rd Prize $25 Luke Sarenna, age 13 ‘Piece Of The Past’ Inland Leaders Charter, Yucaipa
Honorable Mention $20 Teesha Maanaey, age 14, Clement Middle School, Redlands
Kindergarten –
2nd Grade
1st Prize $50
Samantha Grimley, age 8
‘Light The Way’
Ranch View Elem.
2nd Prize $25
Sybil Dudas, age 7
‘The Sleeping Sloth’
Mariposa Elem. Redlands
3rd Prize $25
Liam Gibbis, age 6
‘Flower With Ladybugs’
Valley Prep Redlands
Honorable Mention $20
Evelyn Stephenson, age 6
’Two Huskies In Their Nature Homes’
Citrus Valley Christian Academy, Redlands
9th Grade –
12th Grade
1st Prize $100
Amanda Helly, age 18
‘Solace In Motion’
Redlands High School
2nd Prize $75
Kai Baca, age 18
‘Self Portrait’
Redlands East Valley High School
3rd Prize $50
Rozlyn Perazzo, age 17
‘Silver Carnelian Ring’
Home School
3rd Grade -
5th Grade
1st Prize $50
Hayden Stringer, age 9
‘Watercolor Dragon’
Arroyo Verde Elem.Highland
2nd Prize $25
Anabel Grimley, age 10
‘The Universe Of Life’
Crafton Elementary.Redlands
3rd Prize $25
Melissa Mousa, age 9
Sakura In Bloom’
Mariposa Elementary, Redlands
Honorable Mention $20
Karin Nguyen, age 8
’The Happy Dolphin’
Depper Roots Academy
9th Grade –
12th Grade
Co-Honorable Mention $25
Norah Shiner, age 16
‘Power Bowl’
Redlands High School
Co-Honorable Mention $25
Benny Lin, age 18
’Power Bowl’
Redlands High School
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.
