League for Innovation 40th International Student Art Awards

• Artworks submitted are selected by students’ local colleges/districts.
• All types of art media are eligible, including 3D work.
• Selected artists may submit 1 digital image for 2D work and two (2) digital images for 3D work.
• Specifications on file sizes and types for all media uploads: Image: JPEG or JPG, under 5MB with a minimum of 1200 pixels on the longest side. Audio: AIFF, WAV, XMF, MP3, under 10MB with a minimum bit rate of 96. Video: 3PG, WMV, AVI, MOV, ASF, MPG, MP4, M2T, MKV, M2TS, under 100MB with a minimum resolution of 640 x 480; minimum 12 fps.
• Submissions to the international competition are drawn from the google form image submission link. Specific file names will not be visible to the jurors or to the international award coordinator. Only students’ names and artwork titles will appear in the submission form.
   

• Check with your instructor for your local college’s entry date and selection process.
• Complete the entry form in its entirety and sign the form.
• The entry form requires a short (50 words or less) written statement regarding the submitted artwork. The statement may address the submitted work, or it may be a more general artist statement. The statements of students chosen by their local coordinator(s) for the international-level competition will be published in the Student Art Awards catalog. Proofread your statement prior to submission to your local award coordinator.
• Submit your completed and signed entry form with digital files to your college/district’s local award coordinator. All images must be clear, properly exposed, and set at the required resolution.

Each League board college/district’s award coordinator facilitates a local competition according to institutional preferences prior to submitting final entries to the international competition. All student entries must be submitted through the local award coordinator.

• Each participating League board college/district may submit up to five (5) works of art to the international competition.
• Each work of art must be created by a different student

40th Annual Student Art Awards Entry Form
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40th Annual Student Art Awards Poster
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Born in the Philippines, Romson Regarde Bustillo is a Seattle based artist. His layered works and immersive collaborations are tied to his Philippine lineage, South Seattle Pacific Northwest upbringing, and extensive research travels. Carving his own path, Bustillo integrates a printmaking foundation with a transdisciplinary approach. 

He was awarded the Seattle Print Arts Larry Sommers Art Fellowship in 2016. In 2017 he was co-recipient of the Garboil Grant, an award that considers artists “…engaging audiences outside the aesthetic industrial complex.” He received Arts-Individual Projects Grants from 4Culture in 2018 and 2020 in support of his installations and collaborative interventions. He is the recipient of an Artist Trust Fellowship (2019) and the Artist Trust Artist Innovator Award (2021). He received a Northwest Film Forum/Andy Warhol Foundation Collective Power Fund Award in 2022, "New Work Projects" category. Awarded AIR Residencies include the Museum of Glass, 2023 and 2025, The Jack Straw New Media Gallery, 2023-2024, Bali Purnati in Bali, Indonesia 2020, and the Seattle Public Library, 2019. Bustillo is represented by JRinehart Gallery.

Julia Greenway is a London-based curator focused on how digital media influences the aesthetic presentation of gender, economics, and environment. Currently a curator at the Zabludowicz Collection, London, she co-curated the solo exhibition by artist LuYang and the thematic group exhibition Among the Machines. 

Upon relocating to London in 2018, she independently produced Gery Georgieva’s UWU Channel Radiance at Cubitt Artists and the site-specific installation Semelparous by Joey Holder in the abandoned Springhealth Leisure Centre. 

Previous roles include the 2017-18 Curator in Residence with Oregon Contemporary in Portland, Oregon and Curatorial Director of Interstitial, a contemporary new media gallery in Seattle, Washington from 2015. Greenway holds an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BFA in Painting from Grand Valley State University.

Philadelphia-based artist Akiko Jackson was born and raised in Kahuku, a rural North Shore community on the island of Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi. She holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts. 

Jackson’s work has been supported by numerous fellowships and residencies across the U.S., including the Louise Bourgeois Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Windgate Artist Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center, the Lisa Naples Fellowship at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, and the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Foundation. Jackson’s installations hold reverence for the historical agency of accessible materials—such as clay and fiber—as sculptural mediums. 

As both an artist and cultural worker, she sees it as part of her role to engage with nonprofit arts organizations around fair and accountable practices. Through connecting hands to material, she explores how displaced memory and cultural identity shape one another. Her work asks: How do we stay bonded to those we love, remain rooted in where we come from, and find belonging in the midst of change? 

Jackson has taught at institutions including Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Rowan University, The Clay Studio, Black Hound Clay Studios, and Grounds For Sculpture. Her work has been exhibited internationally, with exhibitions at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, the USC Pacific Asia Museum, and the Philadelphia International Airport.