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Winter 2023

Close-up: “White Crystals: -Carter Schafer (’24)
People: “Barren” – Jeremy Cownover (’27)
Off-Campus: “Peekaboo” – Owen Stefanich (’27)
Landscape: “Snow!” – Kiran Tator (’27)
Wildlife: “TreeTop Dweller” – Owen Stefanich (’27)

Fall 2023

Overall: “Purple Finch with Moon” – Carter Schafer (’24)
Making Meaning: “when a sunset means something to someone, be kind to them” – Sierra Moore (’24)
Landscape: Untitled – Jeremy Cownover (’27)
People in Nature: “Kelby and the Puffball, a love story” – Hannah Swanson (’24)
Wildlife: Untitled – Jeremy Cownover (’27)
Close-up: “Painted Lady” – Ellie Kosek (’25)

Winter 2022

Overall and Landscape: “Water Tower” – Eric Crosby Lehmann
Animal: “Frolicking Pheasant” – Alexandra Freihammer
Close-Up: “Squirrel waz here” – Kathleen Murphy
People in Nature: “Tranquility” – Stella Jaeckle,

Spring 2021

Overall: “Pup” – Kathleen Murphy
Animal: “The One That Stands Out” – Tor Nelson
Close-up: “Buds at Sunset” – Peter Neeb
Landscape: “Aquatic” – Matt Hallahan
People in Nature: “Calm” – Carter Schafer

Fall 2020

Overall: “Red-tailed Hawk” – Katie Hoffman
Animal: “Serpentine” – Matt Hallahan
Close-up: “Fly on Flowers” – Carter Shafer
Landscape: “Norway Valley” – Atia Cole

Winter 2020

Animal: “Nuthatch” – Sergius Hannan
Landscape: “Ice Forest” – Payton Foley

Fall 2019

Overall: “Sunset Grain” – Ross Grant
Animal: “Peckin'” – Tyler Krohn
Close-up: “Faded Flower” – Bryony Hawgood
Landscape: “Windmill and the Sunset” – Meg Prapatthong

Spring 2019

Overall: “Painted Turtle” – Sergius Hannan
Animal: “Duck Duck Gray Duck” – Alex Oberg
Close-Up: “Budding” – Ross Grant
Landscape: “Morning Walk” – Michelle Fredricks

Winter 2019

Landscape: “Three Amigos” – Alex Oberg
Close-up: “Branch” – Ross Grant
Animal: “White-breasted Nuthatch” – Bryony Hawgood

Fall 2018

Overall: “Season Confusion” – Evan Pak
Animal: “Almost Stepped on a Snake” – Danny Harrison
Close-Up: “Velvet” – Hannan Sergius
Landscape: “August Evenings” – Atia Cole

Spring 2018

Overall: “Claude Monet” – Mingcheng Liao
Animal: “Perched” – Evan Pak
Close-Up: “Spring Forth” – Marcel Hones
Landscape: “Tree of Life” – Dorinda Stryker

Fall 2017

Overall: “Let Them Feast!” – Marcel Hones
Close-Up: “Fungi” – Caroline Urban
Animal: “Leafcutter Bee” – Lindsey Kemp
Landscape: “Watercolors” – Evan Pak

Fall 2016

Overall Winner: “Monarch Butterfly between the Coyote and James Farm Ponds” – Dean Neuburger
“Catching the Early Morning Light on the Prairie” – Johanna Beam
“Reach” – Gigi Matter
“Transcendence” – Johnny Goodson
“Waterfowl on the Big Pond” – Dean Neuburger

Fall 2015

“Summer Prairie Grass” – Erin McCoy
“Growth and Reflection” – Megan Jekot
“Dewfall” – Andrew Larson
“Sunset” – Zhaoqi Hu

Spring 2015

Overall: “White Trout Lily in Norway Valley” – Dean Neuberger
Landscape: “Sunset Reflections” – Leigh Hahn
Prairie: “Phoenix” – Nate LaFond
Conservation: “Burn!”- Mike Swift
Wildlife: “Mallards Ascending from James Farm Pond” – Dean Neuberger

Fall 2014

“Dehiscence Splendor near Coyote Ponds” – Dean Neuberger
“The Salamander Slithers at Sunset” – Leah Stinson
Untitled – Valleri Rami
“The Reds of Fall” – Marielle Perkins
“For Spacious Skies” – Nicole Kroschel

Spring 2014

Overall: “Mite on Moss” – Clay Carlson
Signs of Spring: “Sprout” – Carson Koepke
Wildflowers: “Jack in the Pulpit in Norway Valley” – Dean Neuburger
Close-up: “Fungi Town” – Carson Koepke
Wildlife: “White Throated Sparrow” – Allison Herreid

Fall 2013

Overall: “Red and Green Between Coyote Ponds” – Dean Neuberger
Wildlife: “Dragonfly” – Andrew Wilder
Prairie: “Grass Forest” – Andrew Wilder
Close-up: “Fall Fungi” – Clay Carlson
Landscape: “Forest” – Karsen Shoger

Spring 2013

Landscape: ““Budding at Baseball Pond” – Dean Neuburger
Close-up: “Buds with Tassels at Baseball Pond” – Dean Neuburger
Animal Life: “Song Sparrow” – Emma Haupt
Spring Thaw: Untitled – Megan Jekot

Fall 2012

Overall: “The Impending Storm” – Kyle Obermann
Close-up: “Firework” – Elizabeth Brindley
Fall Colors: “Autumn Jacket” – Alyssa Mueller
Wildlife: “A Dandelion” – Seth Spawn
Landscape: “A Line of Two Worlds” – Irham Hudaya

Spring 2012

Spring Animal: Unititled – Nicky Church
Spring Plant: “Quiet Strength” – Grace Leary
Spring Landscape: Untitled – Nicky Church
Minnesota Spring: Untitled – Julia Moser-Hardy

Winter 2012

Overall: Untitled – Kari Riley
Snow Scene: Untitled – Dean Neuburger
Close-up: Untitled – Erika Terwilliger
Landscape: Untitled – Kari Riley
Life in Winter: Untitled – Aly Young

Fall 2011

Overall Winner: “Beyond Arms Reach” – Jessie Price (’14)
Landscape: “Crescent Moon at Sundown” – Clay Kinson (’15)
Colors of Fall: “Autumn Glow” – Katie Lauer (’13)
Close-up Winner: “On the Way to Mexico” – Kyle Obermann (’14)

Spring 2011

Portrait: Untitled – Vicky Anton (’14)
Close-up: Untitled – Rachel Butler (’12)
Brochure: Untitled – Knute Gundersen (’12)
Landscape: Untitled – James Patrick Daly (’13)

Winter 2011

Landscape: Untitled – Brooke Weigel (’13)
Ice Scene: Untitled – Kyle Obermann (’14)
Life in Winter: Untitled – Megan Laedtke (’13)

Fall 2010

Portrait: Untitled – Maximilian Mayrhofer
Close up: Untitled – Rachel Jane Butler
Landscape: Untitled – Kyle Obermann
Faculty: Untitled – Kyle Obermann