This year’s event took place over two days (April 4th & 5th). The event was held at Pine Street Methodist Church in Williamsport. The Lycoming & Clinton County Homeschool Association of PA is beyond grateful to the staff and members of Pine Street for all their support and graciously opening their building to us!

This year we expanded the categories and the ages! New this year were Digital Media and Mixed Media categories. We also added the 3-5 age group. We had a new panel of five judges, whom we cannot thank enough. They judged over 250 pieces of art in six categories among four age groups. This year’s judges included lead judge, Jamie Mahoney. Jamie is the Graphic Artist for the James V. Brown Library and provides graphic arts/marketing assistance for district member libraries, Allis Willis, former public school art teacher, Heather Griggs, founder and owner of OG Watters Works, local artist and business owner Ayris Slade, and Geoffery Hahn, owner of Anklet Root Art Gallery. All are paid artists and brought a very professional feel to the event.

The event also included a People’s Choice Award again this year (winner Emily Brown “In Bloom”), but it also added special categories for cultural art (winners Lila & Amelia Frost for “Mi Familia”), collaborative art, (winners were the Frost sisters again) and abstract art (winner Eva McAfee). We again had “Best in Show” in each category. All 1st place winners in their category were then judged for “Best in Show”. Paint (Blaze Sherman “Lone Howler”), 3D (Emily Brown “In Bloom”), Digital Media (Caleb Welch “Dragon of Hearts”), Draw (Natalie Morris “Tricolor Turkey”), Photography (Aurora Crooks “Raindrops”) and Mixed Media (Frost Sisters “Mi Familia”).

This event featured over 160 homeschoolers from various counties across Central PA. We were thrilled with the patron turnout as well, and of course with all our artists who participated. While we can only mention the winners, all the artists were amazing!

Emily Brown “In Bloom” People’s Choice Award, Best in Show 3D art & 1st place 14-18 3D art

Frost Siters (Amelia & Lila) “Mi Familia” Cultural Award, Collaborative Award, 1st place 14-18 Mixed Media Art, and Best in Show Mixed Media.

Blaze Sherman “Lone Howler” (1st place painting 10-13 and Best in Show painting)

Natalie Morris (while her 2nd place Digital art in photo, she won 1st place 14-18 & Best in show for drawing with “Tricolor Turkey”)

Other winners in each category are listed in order of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places respectively.

Paint: 3-5 (Evan Day, Aila Haley, Keilani Smith); 6-9 (Maggie Bender “Charming Chickens”, Christopher Johnson, Kannon Sheurer); 10-13 (Blaze Sherman, Morgan Baker, Rhett Bender); 14-18 (Robert Willis “Northern Lights” with an offer to purchase, Aurielle Miller, Abigail Ford).

3D: 3-5 (Jemma Shipe “Pretty Bot”, Ellis Matthews, Nolan Stoltzfus); 6-9 (Leda Burkholder “Mmmm…”, Finnigan Matthews, Rhoda Burkholder); 10-13 (Abigail Morris “Bathing Beauty”, Jack Shipe, Josh Willis); 14-18 (Emily Brown “In Bloom” offer to buy, Elizabeth Brown, Caleb Welch).

Photography: 3-5 (Reagan Matthews “Rocks”, Aila Haley, Ellis Matthews); 6-9 (Aurora Crooks “Raindrops”, Eliana Haley, Lucy Hunter); 10-13 (Abel Trump “Muncy Creek”, Xavier Seese, Annabelle Albertson); 14-18 (Caleb Mahoney “Frankenstein’s Walk”, Ramona Kroll, Alexander Federoff).

Mixed Media: 3-5 (Elsie Burkholder “Ice cream Dream”, Reagan Matthews, Evan Day); 6-9 (Eliana Haley, Kannon Sheurer, Maylynn Lieberknect); 10-13 (Jaidyn Hager, Ari Crooks); 14-18 (Frost sisters Lila & Amelia “Mi Familia”, Dayzi Soboleski, Nora Gscheidle).

Digital Media: 3-5 (Uriah Christianson “Fire Monster Truck”); 6-9 (Nekoda Christianson “Fire Breath”, Maylynn Lieberknect); 10-13 (Jack Shipe “Clay Man”, Lyda Pinckney, Brennan Comerford); 14-18 (Caleb Welch “Dragon of Hearts”, Natalie Morris, Amelia Heath sold).

Draw: 3-5 (Lily Watkins “Ladybug Girl”, Margaret Comerford); 6-9 (Aiden Willis, Maggie Bender, Joyanna Day)’ 10-13 (Josiah Haley, Bromwyn Keener, Rhett Bender); 14-18 (Natalie Morris “Tricolor Turkey”, Aurielle Miller, Ava Maneval).