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Atlanta Citizen Review Board (ACRB) Arts & Essay Contest

2024 Art & Essay Contest

ACRB is gearing up to prepare for its’ 2024 Art & Essay Contest. It has been a few years since the last one, and the time has finally come to bring it back. Please stay tuned for updates. 

Thank You Participants, Nominees and Winners in The 2020 Arts & Essay Contest!

Congratulations to Hassan Hashim from North Atlanta High School, the Grand Prize Winner of a 55″ 4K Smart TV in the high school essay competition in the 2020 Atlanta Citizen Review Board Arts & Essay Contest.  Kudos also to Kodisha Bivens, aka Soul Scribe the Poet, Grand Prize Winner of a brand new Apple Watch in the 2020 Arts & Essay Contest new Spoken Word category The theme this year was “If I could change law enforcement, it would be like this.” Below are this year’s nominees and winners.
 
Here are the names of the top five nominees for Art: Elementary Grades 1 through 5:
1. Kahlani Coleman,
2. Kingston Carter,
3. Issac Thompson,
4. Karrington Robinson
5. Kamaria Johnson
 
3rd Place Winner of a 32” Roku Smart Television is:
Isaac Thompson
 
2nd Place Winner of a Samsung Tablet is:
Karrington Robinson
 
The Grand Prize Winner for ART, Elementary and a Chromebook is:
Kamaria Johnson
 
Here are the Winners of the Essay Competition for Middle School Grades 6 through 8:
 
3rd Place Winner of a 9” Samsung Tablet is :
Noah Jackson
 
2nd Place Winner of a 32” Roku Television is:
Annabelle Haines
 
The Grand Prize Winner of a Google Chromebook in the Essay Competition for Middle School Grades 6 through 8, is:
Maryam Hashim
 
For High School, Grades 9 through 12, The Grand Prize Winner is Hassan Hashim
 
The Special Open Entry category for Spoken Word is being
featured for the first time There are two awards (2nd place and Grand Prize).
The nominees for the Spoken Word competition:
Jacob McCullough
Linda Crossland
Nyla Baxter
Jalen Davis
Kodisha Bivens
 
The Winners of the Special Open Entry for Spoken Word:
 
2nd Place Winner of a Google Chromebook is:
Jacob McCullough
 
The Grand Prize Winner of a brand new Apple Watch in the Spoken Word Competition is:
Kodisha Bivens
 
Special Open Entry for Art:
The Nominees for Art S.O.E. are:
Nishitha Putrevu
Atrice Woodard
Anumari Sipp
Taylor Thomas
Lorraine Fontana
 
2nd Place Winner of a 32”Roku TV is:
Taylor Thomas
 
The Grand Prize Winner of a Google Chromebook in the Special Open Entry Category for Art is:
Nishitha Putrevu
 
The Nominees for Essay in the Special Open Entry are:
Walter Rosemond
Janice Merritt
Kim Ho
Wysteria Bingham
Nihar Putrevu
 
2nd Place Winner of an incredible 32”Roku TV is:
Nihar Putrevu
 
The Grand Prize Winner of a Google Chromebook in the Special Open Entry Category for Essay is:
 
Walter Rosemond
 
THANK YOU TO ALL PARTICIPANTS!