Since 1998, Indiana Connection, Indiana Electric Cooperatives, and participating Indiana electric cooperatives have held an annual art contest for Indiana students in grades kindergarten through 12.
This contest helps co-ops meet one of the 7 cooperative principles — commitment to community. As more art programs in schools face budgetary challenges, Indiana Connection believes encouraging the arts — the imagination, self-expression, and creativity these disciplines stimulate — is vital to society. Not only do the arts produce aesthetic beauty and entertainment for our hearts and souls, studies after study show the arts play a key role alongside science, technology, engineering, and math in producing the minds of well-rounded, problem-solving, thoughtful individuals needed to lead and run our modern, high-tech world.
Cooperative Student Art Contest — ENTRIES OPEN THIS SUMMER!
Entry information for the Cooperative Student Art Contest will be posted soon.
Congratulations to last year’s winners below!
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2026 Cooperative Student Art Contest Winners Announced!
Here are the talented artists selected in the annual Cooperative Student Art Contest.
Grade Division Winners
- Kindergarten —Dorothy Gatwood, Newburgh
- First Grade — Jane Olsen, Newburgh
- Second Grade — Josephine Stanger, Martinsville
- Third Grade — Addilyn Hammel, Huntington
- Fourth Grade — Nash Cissell, Borden
- Fifth Grade — Dustin Otto, Amboy
- Sixth Grade — Hunter Spindler, Greenwood
- Seventh Grade — Lily Fouts, Seymour
- Eighth Grade — Olivia DeSchamp, Jasper
- Ninth Grade — Laura Deckena, South Whitley
- 10th Grade — Cooper Baird, Fort Wayne
- 11th Grade — Luciana Harmon, Jeffersonville (Artist of the Year)
- 12th Grade — Makenna Krause, South Whitley
Honorable Mention Winners
- Kindergarten — Jolysbeth Holt-Lara, Henryville
- First Grade — Hudson Heiny, Henryville
- Second Grade — Eleanor Daunhauer, Ferdinand
- Third Grade — Rowyn Mellencamp, Seymour
- Fourth Grade — Henry Crance, Columbia City
- Fifth Grade — Robert Reno, Jeffersonville
- Sixth Grade — Eden Fawver, Knightstown
- Seventh Grade — Julietta Kaucher, Greenfield
- Eighth Grade — Isabella Martin, Fort Wayne
- Ninth Grade — Isabella Griffin, Warsaw
- 10th Grade — Mary Mondok, Fort Wayne
- 11th Grade — Elizabeth Massie, South Whitley
- 12th Grade — Hannah Moore, Pierceton