2025 Annual PAVA “Awards of Excellence”, Pinellas County Schools

Each year PAVA partners with Pinellas County School Board to provide awards to outstanding high school junior and senior students of art. Awards are funded by donations from our partner, NorthWest Federal Credit Union, as well as individual donations.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THIS YEAR’S RECIPIENTS!

A collage of five images: a black-and-white photo of two people sitting on a sofa outdoors, three colorful paintings featuring abstract and landscape scenes.

GOLD (Clockwise):

  • Henry Peter: Hurricane Daze

  • Riley Mills: Threads of Discovery

  • Jasmine Marcus: Headache

  • Joshua Cowley: Ontological Perspectives

A collage of four images: top left shows a woman holding a lamp with a scene of a woman in red sitting on a car, top right features a blue and white drawing of a cat and a dog, bottom left displays comic-style drawings of a girl with a unicorn plush and a notebook, bottom right is a surreal artwork of a head with a small classical column inside.

SILVER (Clockwise)

  • Audrey Carrier: Laterne

  • Khloe Temple: Friendly Truth

  • Luciana Valentino: Inner Peace

  • Aiden Evans : Reading Wrong but with You by My Side It is Right

A collage of five different images: a painting of a woman with dark hair lying among orange trees and flowers, a dog sitting on a couch in a dark room, an abstract sculpture of a landscape with clouds and trees, a abstract figure made of dripping white paint, and a black and white photo of a dog indoors.

HONORABLE MENTION (Clockwise)

  • Verity Skeleton: Sun On My Face

  • Zella Hogan: Journey

  • Addison Kirkland: Izzy In the Light

  • Grace Williams: Shimmering Difference

2024 Awardees
2023 Awardees
2021-2022 Awardees