April 19 – May 17, 2026 | opening awards reception Sunday, April 19, 1 – 3 pm
Exhibit Prospectus Exhibit Announcement
Get ready to see what our area high-schoolers have been up to in their visual arts departments this year! Museum visitors look forward every year to seeing the amazingly creative and skillful work that makes up this diverse and vibrant annual exhibition juried by Curator Liz Miller and Education Coordinators Nikkole Miller and Danielle Tyree. After a full week of jurying at all participating high schools in Horry and Georgetown Counties, as well as a viewing visit with our area homeschool high school students, jurors widdle down the hundreds of submissions to the best of the best for exhibition. All art media, including painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, fiber and more , are accepted. This extraordinary opportunity for teenage art students helps them to gain professional experience in the Museum exhibition process.
This year, exhibiting artist Ashlyn Pope will judge the art. Pope is a contemporary ceramic, textile and printmaking artist, as well as Assistant Professor in 3-D foundations at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC. Employing Gullah and West African motifs, Pope creates works expressing the human form, always ingrained with African American culture, as a way of addressing the Black human condition but also the resilience and beauty of the Black community. Her exhibition, A History of Moving Forward II, is on view through February 15, 2026, here at the Art Museum.
Academy for Arts,
Science + Technology
Keith Barrieault
Emily Bell
Ava Dillon
Janna Escamis
Honorable Mention, 2D
Sandy Gabino Velasquez
Zoey (Dani) Genest
Sopheia Gilbert
First Place, 2D
Destiny Grant
Sara/Jamie Isbill
Martha Juarez Martinez
Alyson Lopez-Gonzalez
Bria Matte
Ruby Nadler
Judge’s Choice Award
Laila Sindab
Evie Small
Kaylee Smith
Kendall Williamson
Aynor High School
Samantha Rabon
Alesia Ruiz
Best in Show
Carolina Forest
High School
Gwenyth Fougere
Kamilah Glover
Best Photograph
Griffin Grote
Honorable Mention, 3D
Osly Mendoza
Alayna Meyers
Kayden Polak
Vivian Rawley
Lorah Skipper
Green Sea Floyds
High School
Jessica Wilson
The Georgetown School
of Arts + Sciences
Branton Baker
Honorable Mention, 3D
Loris High School
Austin Brown, Ayda
Hardee + London Hardee
Ashton Gill
Myrtle Beach
High School
Emily Alarcan
Erica Arnold
Second Place, 2D
Camden Davis
Gracyn Galloway
Alivia Gray
Natalie Lupo
Kevin Malpica
DeSales Mudd
Nadiya Patel
Maggie Petty
Ashlyn Ward
Brooke Wassell
North Myrtle Beach
High School
Deja Goodson
Autumn Marks
Socastee High School
Charlotte Argento
Holland Cevasco
Rising Star Award
Ashley Clark
Zoey Gustine
Honorable Mention, 2D
Amelia Smith
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
High School
Josh Frey
Stella Marzano
St. James High School
Peyton Allinder
Brandy Betancourt
Eden Blanton
Second Place, 3D
Keilah Caldwell
Kara Debidart
Ziare Green
Honorable Mention, 3D
Natalie Johnson
Beth Kissick
Paisley Knox
Alice Lin
Isabella McBride
Danica Mele
Charlotte Miller
Honorable Mention, 2D
Jordana Morais
Alyssa Ramos
Kelly Rivera-Perez
Matthew Warrick
Megan Wolf
Third Place, 3D
Vine + Branches
Home Education
Scarlett Briggs
Mady-Gray Gunter
Grace MacDougall
Alexis McDowell
Waccamaw High School
Brianna Gaspardo
Noah Hite
Brennan Holt
Sally Intrieri
Third Place, 2D
Maris Russell
sponsored by:
. + Sandy Hubbard and Tom Logan + Tom Goodrich
© 2016 Franklin G. Burroughs • Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum
Myrtle Beach’s Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum strives to be one of the finest visual arts museums in the Carolinas. With 11 galleries that change throughout the year, Myrtle Beach’s only art museum offers exhibitions featuring paintings, textiles, sculpture, photography, video, ceramics, assemblage, collage and more. A visit to the Art Museum’s exhibitions can be enhanced by its lively programming, including artist receptions, tours, lectures, workshops and classes for both adults and children.
