$350 Winner!
Inheritance
by Alethea Rose Ames Burger
Alethea is 17 years old and lives in Humboldt County where they attend South Fork High School and chose to depict secondhand smoke through artwork. They were inspired to create an art piece that portrayed how youth are affected by growing up with smoking in their household. This topic resonated deeply because they have grown up subjected to secondhand smoke and have asthma that is triggered by it. They wanted to create a drawing that showed how smoke directly affects children, so they drew a child reaching up toward an adult holding a cigarette, while the cigarette smoke floats down toward the child. This is meant to symbolize the innocence and curiosity of a child who doesn't know any better and the irresponsibility of an adult to expose a child to secondhand smoke.
$300 Winners
Secondhand Smoke Squatch
by Aleah Allender
Aleah is 15 years old and lives in Humboldt County where she attends Casterlin High School and chose to depict secondhand smoke through artwork. She created her art piece by using poster board and colored pencils that a friend let her borrow. Her inspiration came from living in an area with a lot of cigarette smokers and she enjoys the redwoods.
I Lied
by Evan Michael
Evan is 16 years old and lives in Del Norte County where he attends Sunset High School and chose to depict big tobacco’s manipulation through poetry. When thinking about all the lies big tobacco tells, he was inspired to write this poem.
$250 Winners
Moai Madness for Two
by Reed Bremer
Reed is 15 years old and lives in Humboldt County where he attends Casterlin High School and chose to depict secondhand smoke through sculpture. The sculpture was made of clay, paint, cotton balls, wire and wood. The faces in the sides of the lungs represents the direct effects of secondhand smoke.
Blooming Beyond Addiction, Fallen into Smoke
by Fire Townsend
Fire is 14 years old and lives in Humboldt County where she attends Eureka High School and chose to depict big tobacco’s manipulation through artwork. She created her art piece traditionally, painting the sketch and colors before moving to shape things digitally. Alot of time, effort, and render was put into this. The p
by Fire Townsend
Fire is 14 years old and lives in Humboldt County where she attends Eureka High School and chose to depict big tobacco’s manipulation through artwork. She created her art piece traditionally, painting the sketch and colors before moving to shape things digitally. Alot of time, effort, and render was put into this. The project depicts how big tobacco manipulates you, and soon you’ll be drowning in the smoke (addiction) and it will be impossible to break free.
Cigarette’s & Forest Fires
Cigarette’s & Forest Fires
by Molly Perkins
Molly is a student that lives in Humboldt County and chose to depict the environmental impact of tobacco and nicotine use through graphic design. She was inspired by the amount of fires that are caused by cigarettes and the amount of people who have died from them.
$200 Winners
Shattered Promises
Shattered Promises
Shattered Promises
by Jimmy Bates
Jimmy is 15 years old and lives in Humboldt County where he attends Casterlin High School and chose to depict secondhand smoke through poetry. He wrote this poem as part of his English class and was inspired because his mother smokes.
Lungs of Clay
Shattered Promises
Shattered Promises
by Team Lungs for Life
Olivia Wilson and Julianna Johnston
Olivia, 18, and Julianna, 17, live in Humboldt County where they attend South Fork High School and chose to depict secondhand smoke through sculpture. Their principle encouraged them to create a piece for the festival, so they decided to make lungs made of clay and depict one healt
by Team Lungs for Life
Olivia Wilson and Julianna Johnston
Olivia, 18, and Julianna, 17, live in Humboldt County where they attend South Fork High School and chose to depict secondhand smoke through sculpture. Their principle encouraged them to create a piece for the festival, so they decided to make lungs made of clay and depict one healthy lung and one smoker's lung. Showing what smoking can do to your lungs and body. Unfortunately, while in the kiln the sculpture broke. They were inspired to create this piece because they have both had family members that were affected by tobacco addiction and grew up with tobacco products being used around them. Julianna was impacted by the death of her great grandmother from tobacco use and Olivia remembers being scared as a little girl thinking that her grandparents, aunts, and uncles would not make it to see her graduate.
Drifting Away
Shattered Promises
Drifting Away
by Emilie Iversen
Emilie is 14 years old and lives in Humboldt County where she attends Eureka High School and chose to depict the environmental impact of tobacco and nicotine use through sculpture. The sculpture was made of clay, and a variety of paints. The creation of each individual cigarette was very time consuming, but a worthwhile a
by Emilie Iversen
Emilie is 14 years old and lives in Humboldt County where she attends Eureka High School and chose to depict the environmental impact of tobacco and nicotine use through sculpture. The sculpture was made of clay, and a variety of paints. The creation of each individual cigarette was very time consuming, but a worthwhile addition to the sculpture. She chose to portray the environmental impact by incorporating cigarette butts which is a type of litter that most people see almost every day. The baby seal is small and sorrowful looking because it is being affected by the carbon dioxide problem that the manufacturing of these products creates.
$150 Winners
Lost Beginnings
by Danika-Lee Josephine Huff
Danika is 14 years old and lives in Del Norte County where he attends Crescent Elk Middle School and chose to depict secondhand smoke through art. The sculpture “Lost Beginnings” was made of clay and paint. The clay model represents a pregnant lady smoking, which can lead to miscarriage.
Mind Heart Body
by Fiona Rinn
Fiona is 18 years old and lives in Del Norte County where she attends Del Norte High School and chose to depict big tobacco’s manipulation through artwork. She created her art piece using watercolor, stippling pen, and graphite pencil. She was inspired by the number of kids she has seen affected by tobacco and how it is changing them.
by Emily Vionnet
Emily is 18 years old and lives in Humboldt County where she attends South Fork High School and chose to depict secondhand smoke through graphic design. She grew up in a household full of smokers, some of which still do, and it inspired her because of how much it affected her growing up. She has managed to continually s
by Emily Vionnet
Emily is 18 years old and lives in Humboldt County where she attends South Fork High School and chose to depict secondhand smoke through graphic design. She grew up in a household full of smokers, some of which still do, and it inspired her because of how much it affected her growing up. She has managed to continually say no despite how many of her peers are doing it. Most of the statistics that are included were found online at the National Institute of Health and University of Columbia.
by Riley Nordell
Riley is 14 years old and lives in Humboldt County where she attends South Fork High School and chose to depict youth access to tobacco and nicotine products through graphic design.
24/7 Access
by Kaelyn Jeffries
Kaelyn is 18 years old and lives in Lake County where she attends Clearlake High School and chose to depict youth access to tobacco & nicotine products through artwork. She enjoys drawing buildings and wanted to showcase that skill. Through her art she wanted to show how easy it is for youth to access vapes specifically at gas stations at any time. She feels like youth can easily walk in and buy one and shove them into their backpacks, so she depicted a high school student outside of a Texaco about to go inside and purchase a vape.
Could you try to clean me?
by Maryann Rosas
Maryann is 14 years old and lives in Del Norte County where she attends Del Norte High School and chose to depict the environmental impact of tobacco and nicotine use through poetry. The poem “Could you try to clean me?” was created from the perspective of how the earth would speak to the people.
Mother Knows Best, Right?
by Melody Brennan
Melody is 16 years old and lives in Del Norte County where she attends Del Norte High School and chose to depict youth access to tobacco & nicotine products through poetry. She has family members who vape, and her mother is one of them. She thinks that has an impact on her siblings and normalizes vaping. She feels that the normalization of vaping in schools and communities is really getting out of hand and can lead to higher rates of addiction and increased alcohol and drug use.
Mundane
by Zoe Bachmann
Zoe is 15 years old and lives in Humboldt County where she attends Eureka High School and chose to depict big tobacco’s manipulation through poetry. She wrote this as if tobacco were a person that is manipulating another person, the user of the tobacco.
Big Tobacco’s Manipulation
by Kara Mae Carson
Kara is 13 years old and lives in Humboldt County where she attends Winship Middle School and chose to depict big tobacco’s manipulation through writing an essay.
Honorable Mention
Tobacco’s Touch
by Danika-Lee Josephine Huff
Danika is 14 years old and lives in Del Norte County where he attends Crescent Elk Middle School and chose to depict secondhand smoke through art. The painting “Tobacco’s Touch” was created with acrylic paints and portrays how tobacco and nicotine use touches many parts of our lives and how he personally felt when dealing with secondhand smoke.
by Maryann Rosas
Maryann is 14 years old and lives in Del Norte County where she attends Del Norte High School and chose to depict big tobacco’s manipulation through poetry, art, and an informative essay. The poem “The Effects” was inspired by how many people are tricked about how vaping, smoking, etc. supposedly helps you feel less stress and better about yourself. However, research proves it causes more stress. The artwork “They said it’d help, then why did it get worse?” was inspired on how a teen would feel using the vape. The girl in the drawing trusted her friends when they told her, vaping reduces stress, however she got more stressed then she had felt at the beginning. She looks in her mirror and reflects, saying “they said it’d help, then why did it get worse?" The Essay was inspired by the impact she felt after reading the fact sheets found on the NorCal 4 Health website and wanted to inform everyone.
