Cecil Klyce

Winston Churchill High School

Cecil Klyce is an artist whose practice is actively reaching into many directions, all connected. He’s primarily and professionally an illustrator, comic artist, or graphic designer- but has worked under most disciplines from fiber art to being an organizer for an activist organization.

No matter what, he makes his personal passion for accessibility, storytelling, and color very clear. He works both digitally and traditionally with no real preference either way, incorporating elements of both into his process.

Get to know a little more about Cecil and his artistic journey!

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🎨 Cecil’s Work

Bones
Muslin, paint, ink, yarn, cyanotype, pencil, paint marker, clear plastic, digital composite
2025

Holler – page 2
Digital, pen and ink
2025

Go Fish!
Acrylic paint, paper mache, acrylic paint marker, ribbon, embroidery thread
2025

Runners-Up

Clarice Frude

Thomas S. Wootton High School

Clarice Frude is a rising senior at Thomas S. Wootton High School exploring how the fine arts capture feeling. She is especially passionate about elder care and highlighting her grandparents’ experiences with dementia. Overall, she strives to hone the skill of observing the physical world to translate the seen and unseen aspects of life onto canvas.

Ella Nelson

Albert Einstein High School

Like most people, I use technology a lot. At school, at home, everywhere. It seems almost inescapable, but when I create art I’m able to fully free myself from the shackles of endlessly working away at a screen and truly express myself. At first I tried to make my work as free from the digital world as possible but as time went on I began using art as a way to process and reclaim technology and highlight the beauty found within the machines which cause us so much strife. Overall I seek to use my work as a way to both criticize and appreciate technology and genuinely examine how it affects us both emotionally and externally.

 I hope my work is able to help people consider the relationships between humanity, divinity, and technology and in doing so help to create a world where technology connects, not divides.