Student Life Art Contest

2023-2024

Featured Artists

2023–2024 Contest Winners

1st Place (Tie)

Underwater

Oil painting of a woman partially underwater; her face distorted in the water's reflections above her

Emily Smith, ’25
Oil Painting, 2022

1st Place (Tie)

Sunset Marsh

Lanscape painting of a marshy pond during a colorful sunset, using loose brushwork

Abigail Lichtenwalner ’25
Oil, 2024

3rd Place

Let Me Tell You Again

Illustration on a man sitting next to a stream, looking up. A scarecrow with a Jack-o-Lantern head stands next to him. There is a black cat and a black bird with yellow eyes sitting nearby

Taryn Fields, ’25
Visual Art, 2024

4th Place

When the Sun Stood Still

Colorful red and purple twilight sunset over a brick sidewalk on UD's campus

Zach McErlain, ’26
Photography, 2024

5th Place

Above the Treetops: Eagles Symphony Among Clouds

Acrylic painting of an eagle flying in the clouds, above the woods, with rolling mountains in the distance.

Wanning Wang, ’26
Visual Art, 2023

6th Place

On the Water at Sunset

Photograph of two people on a boat, silhouetted in the sunset on a tranquil bay

Sarah Lopatofsky, ’27
Photography, 2021

7th Place

The Arch

Detailed acrylic painting of Delicate Arch from Arches National Park on a mini canvas

Angela Minner, ’27
Acrylic on Canvas, 2023

8th Place

Introspection

Warped, almost fish-eye self-portrait of a person's face framed in a circle, with long fingernails.

Izzy Wilson, ’26
Charcoal, 2021

Honorable Mentions

Realism drawing of a cat named Lulu made with pastel pencil on pastelmat

Lulu the Kitten

Angela Minner, ’27
Pastels, 2024

Portrait of a German Shepherd drawn using pastels and pastel pencils

German Shepherd

Angela Minner, ’27
Pastels, 2024

Blue and purple painting of a woman in a lightning storm. Her hair shrouds half of her face

Lost in Thought

Emily Li, ’27
Visual Art, 2023