Portfolio Showcase Winners and Other Illustrator Awards

Congrats to all the illustrator award winners at this year's conference! Special thanks to Priscilla Burris (Portfolio Showcase Director), TeMika Grooms (U.S. Illustrator Coordinator) and Dana Carey (Global Illustrator Coordinator); do read our recent Behind The Scenes At The SCBWI Winter Conference Portfolio Showcase post for more info and others who help put the Showcase together.

Note to all illustrators: do reach out to your Regional Illustrator Coordinators to ask about local portfolio events. You can find out more about SCBWI's Awards and Grants for illustrators here.

See the previous blog post for info about the other award announcements about other scholarship winners and the 2022 Spark Award winners.

Narrative Art Award Winner: 

Druscilla Santiago - Personal website -  Instagram

Student Illustrator Scholarship Winners:

Elena Aguirre Uranga - Personal website

Tsae Yung (Kelly) Wu - Personal website - Instagram

Portfolio Showcase Honor Awards:

Druscilla Santiago - Personal website -  Instagram
Heegyum Kim - Personal website - Instagram - Twitter - Etsy

Portfolio Showcase Grand Prize Awards:

Shamar Knight-Justice - Personal website - Instagram
Brizida Margo - Personal website - Instagram

Congrats to all the winners!

The #SCBWISummerSpec Portfolio Showcase Winners!

In the words of Sarah Baker, SCBWI's Associate Executive Director:

"We decided to double the awards this year. We had 477 participants. The four honor winners each receive $200 for art supplies and one zoom meeting with an art director, and the two grand prize winners each receive $1000 for art supplies and three zoom meetings with art directors.

The judges were:
Shadra Strickland, author-illustrator, professor at MICA, and agent with Painted Words, Jasmin Rubero, art director at Kokila, Saho Fuji, art director at Little Brown, Rebecca Syracuse, designer at Simon & Schuster, and Ellice Lee, art director at Philomel."

And the honorees are

Drumroll...

The Portfolio Showcase Honorees are Kayla Harren, Leanne Hatch, Rob Sayegh Jr., and Marissa Valdez!

And the winners are (you know what to do!)

Drumroll!

The Grand Prize Winners are Jenin Mohammed and Neha Rawat!

Cheers!

Portfolio Showcase Grand Prize Winners Jenin Mohammed (lower left) and Neha Rawat (lower right), seen with SCBWI's Sarah Baker (upper left) with interpreter Jennye Kamin (upper right).

Jenin, Neha, Kayla, Leanne, Rob and Marissa's winning portfolios will be at the top of the showcase page (click here) and the whole showcase will be up for all of August.

Congratulations to the 2017 SCBWI Portfolio Honorees! #LA17SCBWI

Bologna Members' Choice Award

Billy Goats Gruff

Nicola Robinson

Future Bologna opportunities at bologna.scbwi.org

Summer Student Illustrator Scholarship

Irena Freitas

Julie Kwon

Each year, the SCBWI sponsors four conference scholarships for full-time graduate or undergraduate students studying illustration. (Two for the New York conference, two for the Los Angeles conference)

Many of our SIS winners have gone on to be represented by agents, get illustration work, publish books and win awards.

Julie Kwon and Irena Freitas pictured here with Director of Illustration and Artist Programs, Sarah Baker

2017 Illustrator Mentorship

Amber Alvarez

Irena Freitas

Diandra Mae

Shannon McNeill

Alexandra Thompson

Heidi Woodward Sheffield

The goal of the mentorship award is to identify, develop, and nurture illustrators whose work shows potential and may benefit from mentorship.

Portfolio Showcase Honors

Irena Freitas

Andy Musser

Shannon McNeill

Grand Prize

Ashlyn Anstee

Many, many thanks to the incredible Priscilla Burris and Sarah Baker who work so hard on these incredible opportunities for illustrators, and to the Illustration Committee and judges.

LA17SCBWI Portfolio Showcase -- and an Only at the SCBWI Summer Conference Moment!

Scenes from the annual portfolio showcase! Honorees will be announced at the morning introduction.

Meanwhile, here's an Only-at-SCBWI moment if I've ever seen one:

Keynote speaker Marvin Terban had us all in stitches this morning. However, this evening, the tables turned when SCBWI LA member Esther Pearl Watson shared the notes she took about his talk -- in the form of a comic! 

Marvin was honored, and had to take a photo to keep!

This is the kind of connection that seems to uniquely happen at SCBWI. Love it.

Catch more of the conference highlights this year through blog posts tagged #LA17SCBWI or as-it-happens on Twitter.

Golden Kite Luncheon - Illustrator Mentorship Awards

Really, if you're an illustrator and you're NOT an SCBWI member or attending the LA or NY conference, you are a monkey's uncle. Here's an amazing new opportunity magicked up by the SCBWI Board Illustrator Committee:

The Mentorship Award is presented to a select group of six illustrators participating in the annual Portfolio Showcase, whose publishable work shows great promise and potential. The purpose goes beyond just the selection, in that the Mentorship Program is an intense advance-level portfolio critique that includes both individual reviews with each Mentor, and a culminating critique peer meeting with all Mentors and Mentees. This all will take place during the conference hours.

Mentors this year include: Cecilia Yung, Art Director and VP at Penguin Young Readers; Pat Cummings, Illustrator, Writer, and Instructor at Parsons; Priscilla Burris, National Illustrator Coordinator; David Diaz, Award Winning Illustrator; Bridget Strevens-Marzo, International Illustrator Liason; and Rubin Pfeffer, Agent at East/West Literary Agency.

This year's Mentees are:

Ashley Mims
John Deininger
Andrea Offermann
Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Eliza Wheeler
Kimberly Gee

Let's call this idea FANFREAKINGTASTIC!

The Annual Juried Illustrators' Portfolio Showcase

A team of judges (including Loren Long, Justin Chanda, Mac McCool, Steve Bjorkman, and Alice Pope) spent two hours perusing dozens and dozens of portfolios and picked one grand prize winner and two honor recipients.

And the Grand Prize Winner is...

Molly Idle

Honor Award recipients... 

Ye Won Lee

Debbie Ridpath Ohi

Portfolio Winners!

Check out their links!

Grand Prize

You Byun

Portfolio Honors

Anna Raff

Jen Hill

Golden Kite Awards: SCBWI LA 2009 Portfolio Award Winners Announced

Congratulations to the winner and honorees of the SCBWI LA 2009 Portfolio Award contest! The Grand Prize winner and two Honor recipients, their art work, and websites are listed below:

Grand Prize: Israel Sanchez, http://www.israelsanchez.com/



Honor: Brian Ormiston, http://brianormiston.com/



Honr: Stephanie Roth Sisson, http://www.stephanitely.com/index.htm



Posted by Paula Yoo

SCBWI Illustrator Winners: Check Out Their Work

I didn't have time to post images while live blogging, so I'm excited that I've now scored some art from the winners of both the SCBWI New York Portfolio Exhibition and the Tomie dePaola Award which were given out during the NY conference. (Lin Oliver announced that the Tomie dePaola award will be funded by SCBWI going forward and join the permanent lineup of awards offered by SCBWI. I wasn't supposed to blog this because Tomie didn't know yet. He was filled in during a live phone call broadcast to the conference audience, so now I can tell you.)

If you'd like to see more art from these illustrators, click their names or images to view their online portfolios. Enjoy! And congratulations to these terrific artists.

SCBWI Portfolio Award Winners

Grand Prize Winner: David Ercolini

Honor Award: Paulina Cerezo

Honor Award: Patricia Cantor

Tomie dePaolo Award Winners

Grand Prize: Leeza Hernandez

Honor Award: Kenneth Kraegel