Thank you to the artists, students, faculty and alums who donated works to the 2026 5x7 Art Sale. If you purchased a piece at the Art Sale, you can find additional information on your artist in the gallery below after the show. We hope you can also use the gallery to find new artists to follow and support. STAY TUNED - THE GALLERY WILL BE LIVE SOON.
Our panel of artists, curators and collectors selected 15 pieces as best in show. Those are indicated below with an *. Congratulations to our student best in show recipients: Mary Silliman, Caroline Fenlaw, Sophie Martinez, Ava Bennett, Bianca Vari, Charlie Mirick, Violet Rainey-Ellis, Emma Ruzicka, Mariely Hernandez, and Israel Covarrubias.
Kairi Morales is a sophomore in the Visual Arts Conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Attack of the Martian Girl is a mixed media piece that imitates a comic book cover. The artist chose the medium and subject because of a personal connection and love for the character. More at @Kairi_does_art
Olivia Cumplido is a student in the Visual Arts Conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. More at @Olive_121209
Holly Finch is a senior in the Visual Arts Conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. This colored pencil and cut paper piece, Here No More, depicts a marble statue of a deer in its natural habitat. The piece is about extinction, but instead of using an extinct animal, the artist used a common, familiar animal to make the piece more unsettling and serious. More at @Hollyf_inch
Ella Parker is a student in the Visual Arts Conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
Eva Tu is a student in the Visual Arts Conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
Caroline Fenlaw is a student in the Visual Arts Conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
Josh Niccolai-Belfi is a local artist and conservator native to the Bishop Arts District and an alum of both W.E. Greiner and BTWHSPVA with a studio in the Tin District. More at @j.e.niccolai.belfi and niccolai-belfi.com.
Texas-based Lauren Lewchuk is a self-taught creative primarily inspired by nature and music and has 14 years of experience in various creative fields including graphic design, screen printing, faux finishes, scenic art, prop fabrication, and mural painting. More at lewhchuk.com and @art_by_lewchuk
Mary Silliman, a junior in the Visual Arts Conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, focuses on painting, design, and sculpture. She is an adaptive artist who collaborates to make projects stronger. She enjoys welding and metalwork, likes to create art that feels hands-on and exciting, and aims to use her ideas to make pieces that stand out, spark interest, and bring people together. More at @marys.artaccount
*selected best in show
Caroline Correa is a junior in the Visual Arts Conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
Eleanor Duncan is a freshman in the Visual Arts Conservatory. Her piece, Our Lady Of Sorrows, depicts seven swords representing the pain felt during and after the passion of Christ. These seven sorrows are the prophecy of Simeon, the flight into Egypt, losing Jesus in the temple, meeting Jesus on the way to Calvary, the crucifixion, Jesus's body being taken down from the cross, and his burial. The devotion to her sorrows, which became prominent in the 13th century, focuses on meditating on these events and her profound union with Christ's suffering. More at @fruitbat3245
Minji Kang-Watrous moved from Seoul, South Korea, in her 20’s. She is a self-taught hanji artist based in Dallas who has developed her own unique style over the years. Her art is a modern interpretation of traditional Korean art passed down from her mother, who is also an artist. She uses traditional Korean hand-pressed paper called “hanji” that she selects from a 100-year-old shop in Seoul. More at www.minjikw.com and @minjikw
Anisa Sanders is a sophomore in the Visual Arts Conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
Caroline Fenlaw is a junior in the Visual Arts Conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
*selected best in show
Joey Brock is a contemporary mixed media artist who is redefining photography, textile art and contemporary craft with his intricate and cultural commentary work aimed to break the stigma around sexual orientation, gender, ethnicity, age, and mental wellness. By weaving together diverse materials, his work lowers the barriers to understanding the multifaceted human experience, allowing views to visualize the struggles, resilience, and growth that define all people. More at www.joeybrockart.com and @joeybrockart
Lawrence Quigley was born in Neptune, New Jersey, and graduated from Booker T. Washington in 1984. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design, where he received a BFA in painting. More at www.lawrencequigley.com and @ldquigley
*selected best in show
Tim Langford is a multidisciplinary creative with more than 30 years of experience across design, customer experience, brand strategy, and advertising in both digital and traditional media.
Jocelyn Herrera is a senior in the Visual Arts Conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Hushed Worm was created with oil paint.
Melenie Lopez is a student in the Visual Arts Conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
Arthur Fields is a multidisciplinary artist working in digital and alternative photographic media. Arthur's artistic research is based on self-representation and social-media. Acting as both curator as well as image-maker he is concerned with choosing, organizing, editing, and remixing, to better understand the collective cultural experience that is mediated through digital processes. While most of Arthur’s work deals on technology and social media relationships, he is currently focusing on his love for light, abstraction and memory. This piece, Vega, is an archival pigment print on wood (photography) from his Liminal Light series. This series is an inquiry into the fragile architecture of memory, expressed through visual metaphors inspired by transient luminous events - those rare, atmospheric bursts that illuminate the sky for only an instant. More at www.arthurfields.net and @artfields
Mariely Hernandez is a student in the Visual Arts Conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
*selected best in show
Asher McDonald is a student in the Visual Arts Conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
Charlie Mirick is a student in the Visual Arts Conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
*selected best in show
Samantha Torres is a student in the Visual Arts Conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
Sienna Roper is a student in the Visual Arts Conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
Janalee Chavez is a student in the Visual Arts Conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
Ronin Mendoza is a student in the Visual Arts Conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
Victoria Brill is a Dallas-based artist whose work turns the lens of figurative painting inward, using self-portraiture to explore identity as an evolving, layered experience. Working across oil painting, works on paper, and mixed media, her figures are often translucent and caught in mid-emergence, rendered in soft washes and visible underpaintings that highlight emotional states in flux. brill holds a BA in Visual and Performing Arts with a Minor in Art History from the University of Texas at Dallas. More at victoriajbrill.com and @victoriajbrill
Neel Hammers is a senior from Coppell High School who will attend Cornell University to study architecture. He is incredibly passionate about painting and composition and finds small studies incredibly useful to play with composition, life painting, and understanding form. This piece, Yellow Flowers Indoors, is an oil painting. More at @neelhammers_art
*selected best in show
Tony Curanaj is a dynamic, classically trained contemporary realist painter born and raised in New York. His highly sought-after work is illustrative in nature and masterfully executed, reflecting a deep foundation across multiple artistic disciplines. An innovator from an early age, Curanaj was a world-renowned graffiti artist and remains a legendary influence within the genre. He served at Disney Studios in New York as a head designer and illustrator for film and television before fully dedicating himself to his personal artistic vision and fine art practice. His subject matter reflects both the complexity of individual perception and a profound respect for nature and life. Some works play visually with language, memory, and personal experience, while others reveal the quiet beauty of ordinary objects, natural color relationships, or the splendor of the human form. Since 2014, Curanaj has co-created and co-hosted the popular Suggested Donation Podcast with fellow artist Edward Minoff, fostering conversations with leading artists and artisans about creativity, passion, and craft. Now dividing his time between Dallas, Texas, and New York City, Curanaj paints in his studios, teaches at the Grand Central Atelier in New York, and conducts highly sought-after workshops across the country. This piece, Sketch of Longs Peak, is an oil on panel en plein air. More at tonycuranaj.com, www.suggesteddonationpodcast.com and @tonycuranaj
Kyle Clark is the director of the Visual Arts Conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts. He has more than 24 years of teaching experience from Irving ISD and Plano ISD. He received his undergraduate degree in Advertising Art from the University of North Texas in 1992 and his Masters in Education from Parsons School of Design in 2000. He currently teaches Foundation Drawing, Life Drawing and Advanced Placement Drawing.
Ciela Andraos is a student in the Visual Arts Conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts.
Frank Brown is a Dallas-based artist and educator. More at frankbrown-artist.net.
Saylor Evans is a student in the Visual Arts Conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts.
Kendall Turner is a student in the Visual Arts Conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts.