People's Choice Award, Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2025: Nicole Sánchez Ilzenhöfer
Honourable Mention 2025: Genevieve May
Honourable Mention 2025: Arturo Brena
Hoonourable Mention 2025: Robin Eagan
Honourable Mention 2025: Kayla Mahaffey
Anna Karvounari is a Greek born photographer, based in Athens. She creates conceptual self-portraits and she uses the solitary female figure in her images, trying to touch on some affairs of female nature, but also to give voice on some personal feelings.
Seibert-Collection Hoonourable Mention 2025: Hannah Flowers
Honourable Mention 2025: Haley Manchon
Honourable Mention 2025: Shirley Yang Crutchfield
Hoonourable Mention 2025: Anita Arbidane
Nanci France-Vaz is a modern renaissance artist that uses allegorical symbolism to create visual stories on canvas. She draws inspiration from the Pre-Raphaelite and Naturalist periods of art, poetry, and classic literature, and film. She combines her strong foundation in life painting with imaginative backgrounds fusing classical with contemporary realism.
Shane Stover have been an artist his entire life. He started off drawing and painting as many others do. He has grown up with ever expanding digital, and technology driven artistic materials, and much of his work today reflects his artistic journey with the transition from traditional to the digital. Shane's work can be surreal, ironic, and often times dark. As a designer for the film industry, he has experienced the shift from traditional to digital mediums and have embraced both.