The Festival of Arts in Laguna Beach, California is a prestigious art festival that is the home to the Pageant of Masters. Additionally, every year 100 select artists from Orange County put their art on display. My image, "Nostalgic High", was put on display in the Junior Art Exhibit where a select number of students' work, grades K-12, from local schools are recognized in a public exhibit. My piece was also awarded first place in the 12th grade division.
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Formerly known as the "1,000 Pieces of Art" show, the OC Art 4 All showcase gives students in grades Pre-K through 12th grade the opportunity to be selected for an in-person display at Crystal Court located at South Coast Plaza mall in Costa Mesa, California. Some students then have the additional opportunity to display their work in-person at the 2021 Festival of Arts of Laguna Beach.
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Six participating local high schools located in Irvine, CA put students' work on display at the 2021 Irvine Fine Arts Center High School Art Exhibition. Students' work was judged and selected by a guest juror and a total of 142 pieces were chosen for the year's virtual exhibition. Work put on display varied with photos, paintings, graphics, sculptures, etc. Four of my photos, "Pavilion", "The Technicolor World", "The Puppeteer", and "Nostalgic High" were chosen to be a part of this exhibition.
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Click here to see the virtual exhibition: www.flickr.com/photos/infoirvine/sets/72157718891068168/
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Selected as a semi-finalist in the discipline of computer-assisted visual arts for "Orange County Artist of the Year". A total of 59 students were nominated by their teachers for computer-assisted visual arts from high schools in Orange Country. The nominees were narrowed down to 15 semi-finalists and Ashlee Okamura is one of them representing the speciality of photography. |
Click here for the full list of nominees:
www.ocregister.com/2021/03/21/artist-of-the-year-2021-computer-assisted-visual-arts-nominees/ Click here for the full list of semi-finalists in the discipline of Computer-Assisted Visual Arts: www.ocregister.com/2021/04/25/artist-of-the-year-2021-computer-assisted-visual-arts-semifinalists/ |
"Tides" was a third place finisher in the Spring 2020 Congressional Art Competition for California's 45th Congressional District. This piece exhibited the theme of "celebrating Earth's ecosystems" and was displayed in Congresswoman Katie Porter's office for one year.
Check out this video of Katie Porter announcing the three finalist's pieces: www.facebook.com/repkatieporter/videos/312455956706142/ |
"Will-O-the-Wisp"This was taken for a photography project during my freshman year of high school where we had to recreate another artist's work. It is inspired by an image taken by Japanese photographer Tokihiro Sato. "Will-O-the-Wisp" was selected to be displayed in the 2020 Irvine Fine Arts Center High School Art Exhibition. |