11th Edmonton Children’s Art Contest Honours 34 Winners

Award Winners

Best Effort

These awards recognize students who showed outstanding effort and dedication in creating their artwork.

• Danirae Nolan — Grade 6
• Mason Medina — Grade 1
• Ivy Yu — Grade 4
• Ryli Jordan Evaristo — Grade 4
• Yuha Cho — Grade 4

Brilliant Idea

These awards celebrate imaginative ideas and original ways of connecting artwork to this year’s theme.

• Rosie Chau — Grade 4
• Alice Mueller — Grade 2
• Chantal Cruz — Grade 11
• Rayyan — Grade 4
• Krystal Su — Grade 11
• Ellie Liu — Pre-K
• Kaylee Perez — Grade 7
• Vaishnavi Gopalakrishnan — Grade 11
• Caillin Janssen — Grade 8

Best Artistry

These awards recognize students who demonstrated exceptional artistic skill and expression in their contest entries.

• Yuvan Mannadiar — Kindergarten
• Rowena Ooi-Boettger — Grade 5
• Eli Kibrom — Grade 6
• Milena Semionov — Grade 8
• Farheen Khan — Grade 4
• Paityn Woods — Grade 9
• Julia Balauro — Grade 7

Excellent Awards

The Excellent Awards recognize the second-place winner in each age-group category.

• Category 1 — Kindergarten–Grade 1: Madeleine Buckley — Kindergarten
• Category 2 — Grades 2–4: Jahana Sodhi — Grade 2
• Category 3 — Grades 5–7: Srihaasa Bikku — Grade 7
• Category 4 — Grades 8–12: Connie Tian — Grade 9

Category Winners

These awards recognize the first-place winner in each age-group category.

• Category 1 — Kindergarten–Grade 1: Diya Ramprasad — Grade 1
• Category 2 — Grades 2–4: Henry Sanchez — Grade 4
• Category 3 — Grades 5–7: Ayah Al-Baidhani — Grade 7
• Category 4 — Grades 8–12: Carly Burgess — Grade 9

Overall Winners

The Overall Awards recognize three outstanding entries for their interpretation of the theme, artistic skill, effort, and creativity.

• 1st Place: Elisha Gerrie — Grade 11
• 2nd Place: Ada Malowski — Grade 8
• 3rd Place: Vika Krushko — Grade 4

Hanul Art School Sponsor Awards

• Abbigail Bullock — Grade 10
• Rogan Ho — Grade 8

Student Creative Showcase Awards

Creative Vision Award

Seafood Aisle

• Shihan Li
• Maggie Hou
• Ellisa Liang

Creative Venture Award

StuckOnOSA

• Alex Wen
• Ellie Ding
• Jessica Jia
• Emma Jia
• Clare Li

West Edmonton Mall Grand Awards

These special awards were personally judged and presented by Anna Alfonso of West Edmonton Mall.

Children’s Art Contest

Carly Burgess
Grade 9, Laurier Heights

Student Creative Showcase

Seafood Aisle
Grade 12, Old Scona Academic High School

• Shihan Li
• Maggie Hou
• Ellisa Liang

Congratulations to all our 2026 award winners! Thank you to every participant for sharing your creativity, ideas, and hard work.