A very figure stands in a field of horses and tents, hands crossed behind their back and facing one side, nearly spanning the height of the image. Strands of red lines lead from red and green designs that border the image to the figure's red shirt.

GRAND PRIZE

A person looks up and to the side from the bottom left corner, not smiling. Above them is an image of the same person with pins in their body and their face coming out in surreal layers. The rest of the image shows a surreal landscape of tiger lily flowers, mountains, and planets.

PEOPLE'S CHOICE

A colorful close-up of a blue-skinned person holding a heart between two hands next to their face. They are looking either at the heart or over their shoulder, and the background is filled with glowing plant-like shapes.

The top half of a face with two glowing blue eyes looks from within a thick layer of white flowers. Blue hands in the foreground reach towards the face.

A black background with walls of white text. The top half of a person smiling towards the viewer walks past holding a bouquet of flowers, and two hands interlock fingers two the side and behind them. The person's eyes are covered with the word "ANXIETY" in large red distorted letters.

Two people visible from the neck up face away from each other smiling in black and white. The background shows knitted stripes in black and white. Their heads have a drawn overlay in vibrant color of brain-like lines and winding flowers and plants, with solid lines of  transparent color over their eyes.

A colorful collage. At the center is a split image of a face with one side being in military uniform and the other in black and white with curled hair and red seeping from the eyes. duct tape covers the mouth across both sides. Various flags are drawn throughout, with a photo of the Americal flag filling the background.

A figure in mostly black and white rests at the center, looking down at a colorful bouquet in their hands. Various flowers arch over the figure.

The bust of a figure with eyes closed on a dark background of blue neuron-like lines. Pink and blue bright straight lines cross the image to form two offset triangles.

A face with mouth open in anguish has been torn open to unleash a colorful stream of flowing shapes. Two hands reach for the tear.

A figure with the moon behind them sits over a round purple reflective pool. Their reflection is smiling and has wings. Black jagged spirals curl towards the figure in the foreground.

A figure wearing red clothes and a white hijab holds onto a rope with the ocean beneath them. One hand extends into specks of golden light that flow in a stream from the ocean up into the sky.

A figure wearing a colorful dress leaps high in a sky of giant roses and blue clouds. Vines lead to a castle resting on a giant book held open by two giant hands.

A meadow of grass and flowers beneath a starry sky. A large head made from segments of different textures floats in the middle, wearing opaque green sunglasses and emitting white light. Monarch butterflies fly from behind the head, a pink butterfly sits in its hair and two ants on its nose.

A person sits in the foreground cross-legged in bed with an apartment complex in the background. Seaweed, fish, water texture, and bubbles are throughout.

Three partial faces float. The central face appears young but is missing the top half, revealing a skull turned to face away from where the face is looking. Two older faces float to the side, with one almost entirely out of frame in the bottom corner.

A drawing on cardboard of a smiling person with long hair from the shoulders up rests next to a box cutter knife. Above is an image collage of flowers, a shark, paintbrushes, a microscope, and the Philippines and Vietnam flags. The background is layered cardboard scraps.

A corkboard with strings of colorful ephemera clipped on such as photographs, notes and folded paper. On the right hand side is a flash of yellow light with the reflection of a smiling person visible.

A figure from the chest up drawn on dark paper with a white lace overlay over the face and a similar overlay over one side of the body. Two threaded needles and a spool of red thread rest over the image, with the thread leading into the lace overlay and off of the page.

A large orange drop shape extends a tendril towards a smaller blue drop shape, and where they meet glows. Star shapes fill the dark background. Text at the bottom reads "I'd pluck every star from the night sky for you."

2026

An Empathetic World by Jacqueline Alonso, 2025 Art of BrainHealth Competition Finalist

2025

Art of BrainHealth 2024 finalist Noelle Allen's Goldfish Renaissance. 

2024

Art of Kindness 2022 winner Isabella Viggiano's piece, Expansion of Compassion.

2022

Art of Kindness Exhibition submission, grand prize winner, first place.

2021

One of the 2020 Art of Kindness winners: a photograph titled Isolation, by artist Neda Ghassemi. The image shows a young person alone in a field, smoke looming in the background, as they look into a large framed portrait of a happy family.

2020

To kick-off the Kindness Initiative and celebrate World Kindness Day, high school students from across the Dallas area competed in The Art of Kindness art contest.

2019

Self Portrait by Danielle Winans, a finalist in the 2024 Art of BrainHealth student art competition.

Celebrate creativity and lifelong brain potential at our annual student art competition. This interactive event includes an artist reception, live presentations and real-time audience voting to select the People's Choice. This year's contest challenged student artists from UT Dallas and Dallas College to translate cognitive neuroscience into vivid expressions of their lived experiences.

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