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

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

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

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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.

Portfolio Showcase and Illustrator Mentorship Awards

 All the lovely award winners!! 

Student writer scholarships to

Madeline Olsen and Maeghan Klinker

Social media mentorships to:

Katy Tanis @daughter_earth

and Matthew Rivera @yesmatthewdidit

Student Illo Scholarship Winners:

Michelle Janco and Paria Peyravi!

Illustrator Mentorship Awards!!

MARCELO VERDAD 

NEENA PHAN 

ROB SAYEGH JR 

VIVIEN WU 

TENAYA LENA 

EDDIE EDWARDS 

Portfolio Honors!!

TENAYA LENA

ANNA DAVISCOURT

And the winner is....

ANDY FLIPPING MUSSER!!!!

Portfolio Showcase Awards

Honors:

Brooke Smart, 

Lizzy O’Donnell, 

and Dave Szalay

Winner of the 2018 Winter Portfolio Showcase 

Robin Rosenthal!!!

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.

Portfolio Award Winners

This year the portfolio showcase award winner its Oge Mora, who is the first-ever Student Illustrator Scholarship winner as well. That's a first for the SCBWI. She wins a trip to NYC and meetings with art directors there. 

Honors went to these talented artists.

Andy Musser:

Amy Hevron

Allison Farrell

The SCBWI also awarded mentorships to Susie Ghahremani, Katie Carberry, Shahrzad Maydani, Sansu Joh, Liz Wong and Alison Farrell. The award is meant to help promising artists achieve a new level of success.

Portfolio Showcase Winners!

Honor Awards go to:

Amy Hevron

Corinna Luyken

and

Anne Berry (also a Mentee winner!)

and the 

Grand

Prize 

Winner

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.

.

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MICHELLE THIES!!!

Congratulations, Illustrators!

Portfolio Show Award Winners

As SCBWI Board Member Cecilia Young says as she presents the award, every one of the 200 illustrators who entered their portfolio actually won, because the minute their portfolios were shown, they had industry "eyeballs on your work."

There were two honor and one Grand Prize winners, though!

The two honors go to:

Kara Kramer

and

Pedro Antonio Piedra

The Grand Prize winner gets a trip to New York to meet with three art directors… and that winner is:

Cindy Derby!

Here's one of Cindy's illustrations:

Bunnies on a hot air balloon

Check out more of her work at her website, here.

The 2013 SCBWI Summer Conference Portfolio Showcase Awards!

Priscilla Burris presents the awards from this year's portfolio showcase...

The Grand Prize Winner is Maral Sassouni!

Here are three of Maral's images, and you can check out her online portfolio here.

And there are two Honor Award Winners,

Lisa Woods

and

Brooke Boynton Hughes

Congratulations to all!

Portfolio Winners

At the Golden Kite Luncheon, the portfolio winners were announced. With so much great talent, it was a tough choice. 

Grand Prize Winner

Juana Martinez Neal

Juana was selected for the mentorship program last year, and she returned with a new portfolio. As the grand prize winner, Juana will be flown to NY where she will meet with several art directors.

The other awards went to:

Honor Award

Mary Jo Scott

 

Honor Award 

Nancy Armo

 

Honorable Mention

 Mary Lundquist