2024 Optimist Visual Arts Contest Winners

Congratulations!

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 Optimist International Visual Arts Contest! We received creative and beautiful artworks from many talented young artists, and we were very impressed by the level of skill and imagination they displayed. 

This year's winners are:

• Tobias Blaska
• Jada Byrd
• Jamie Cao (cover winner)
• Perrie Cotnoir
• Limin Ding
• Quinn Henle
• Madyson Kernan
• Izzah Khan
• Preston Koch
• Ira Kudale
• Rasha Perlawar
• Emily Prichard

Each winner will receive a monetary award and have their artwork featured on a set of notecards. (Last year's calendar production fell short of sales expectations, prompting a strategic shift this year towards the creation of notecards instead.) We'll have information on how you can purchase the notecards soon.

We will be mailing out the winners' checks next week. The checks will be made out to the parent listed on the winners' entry forms and mailed to the address listed on the winners' entry forms.

If you didn’t win, please submit your artwork again next year. You all did a wonderful job, and we appreciate your enthusiasm and passion for art. 

Please note that next year's deadline will be moved up to March 1 so that we can have the final product available in time for next year's international convention in St. Louis.

Download the 2025 contest guidelines and entry form here.

Congratulations!