Volcano Awareness Month 2025 Art Contest Winners
Detailed Description
January 2025 was the 16th annual Volcano Awareness Month on the Island of Hawai‘i. The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory promoted the importance of understanding and respecting the volcanoes on which we live, in part through an art and poetry contest. Winners of the art contest are displayed here.
In the upper left, Linda Hansen from Pāhoa, submitted a painting titled “Kīlauea welcomes Christmas 2024” that won in the adult division. In the lower left, Kaʻū High and Pāhala Elementary School 11th grader Añaza Nielsen won the high school category with their colored pencil artwork titled “Volcanic Activity,” which depicts the 2022 Mauna Loa eruption as a thermal image. The upper right shows “Lava Flow,” a watercolor and ink piece by Andrea Yanga, an 8th grader also attending Kaʻū High and Pāhala Elementary School who won in the middle school division. The lower right shows a lava pond created with construction paper by Milunaizarra Peltier, a 5th grader from Volcano School of Arts & Sciences, who won the elementary art division. USGS photo.
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