#iCANendthetrend Creative Arts Challenge
2025 Results
Thank you to all of our art challenge participants this year! Each art challenge entry we received this year was unique, creative, and inspiring. We would like to take the opportunity to publicly recognize this year's art challenge winners. Please stay tuned for our 2025-2026 Art Challenge!
High School
1st Place - “Exhaled Youth” By Sydney - Fayette County
“My artwork is an image of a woman who has smoked away her youth. In the image, you can see a young woman smoking a cigarette, and in this cloud of smoke, you can see her older self. This image helps to raise awareness of the physical effects of smoking and how it can damage your appearance and prematurely age you. It promotes the idea not to smoke away your youth, which is a harmful effect of smoking.”
2nd Place - “Vaping Chains You Down” By Eric - Fulton County
“My art shows how vaping can chain you down and cost your life. It cost you your mind, body, soul, and honor. Most of all, your money and your dreams.”
3rd Place - “An Addiction To Die For” By Mackenzie - Fayette County
The serious addictions that nicotine and tobacco cause are represented by the undead hand, because cravings for vaping and smoking can take you out of the present like a 'zombie'. The physical effects of smoking are also severe and can lead to cancer and death, which is referenced in the title. Addictions aren't 'controllable' or healthy, and it can lead to you pouring more money and time into drugs than important things like being social, enjoying hobbies, and everyday life. You become fixated on consuming more and more, like a zombie.
Middle School
1st Place - “Don’t Vape You’ll Get Trapped” By Yuno & Emma - Fayette County
“This artwork shows the transition between a vape user's childhood, where they get introduced into vaping, and adulthood, where they are addicted to the vape. By using vibrant colors, we demonstrated how people make vapes look attractive, as seen in the illustrated vape store. Big bulletin boards in the street that urge people to start vaping, and the brain feeling "addicted" and "dependent" on the vape,e were the main focus of the poster.”
2nd Place - “Peer Pressure” By Sofia - Maddison County
“This piece supports this year's art challenge theme by highlighting the eerie feeling of being peer pressured into something you don't want to do, such as vaping or smoking cigarettes.”
3rd Place - “Two Breaths” By Nathan - Bullitt County
“You Have Two Choices. Two Breaths, for these could determine the outlook of your future years.”
Elementary School
1st Place - “Nicotine Project” By Emalyn - Garrard County
2nd Place - “Breath Easy Be Free Make Change” By Kennedy & Marley - Fayette County
3rd Place - “The Fog of The Lost Souls” By Sierra - Garrard County
“It describes how other people have suffered the effects from vaping and nicotine products. It also illustrates how people became lost in their destructive habit, and the ripple effects that those choices carry onto their loved ones.”