All the artists

1st prize

Film / mini-series

Ariadne Wever

Legado di Famia

A five-part documentary mini-series on Aruban family businesses passed down from generation to generation.

2nd prize

Literature / children's magazine

Addonsito Croes

KiNiKi Magazine

A children's magazine showing where culture lives for Aruba's youth: flora, history, dance, sport and cooking.

3rd prize

Poem (Papiamento)

Ghislaine de Cuba

Paraiso Stima

A poem on the shared joy, peace and pride Arubans feel through their bond with the island's nature.

Visual essay

Joshue Garcia

Mi Raiz

A visual essay on how Aruban and Caribbean folklore shapes identity, pride and creative practice across generations.

Painting / textile

Vanesa Paulina (Antares Ireign)

Blue

A child in deep nocturnal blue beside a handmade doll — painting and textile turning childhood memory into landscape.

Visual art (figurative)

Cynthia Collymore

Christmas in Queen's Park

A figurative painting of the Aruban tradition of dressing up and gathering in Queen's Park at Christmas.

Poem & painting

Nadia Natasha Richardson

Love Armada

A poem-and-painting on a large cotton canvas scented with salt and spices, made with her parents' old tools.

1st prize

Paintings

Dillon Jean Fidel Rannou

It's In Our Nature

Paintings of an island split between organic life and encroaching tourism, with wild goats as a symbol of rooted culture.

1st prize

Audiovisual / film

Principio Sling

Bo'i Palu (Under the Tree)

A filmed spoken-word work imagining Curaçao's culture as a cocktail mixed 'under the tree' — a traditional meeting place.

2nd prize

Video art

Rebibá

Duna Nos Awe Bo Pan di Kada Dia

A video work using bread as a metaphor for culture slowly being taken away — the erosion of space and heritage.

3rd prize

Multidisciplinary

Quiwena Afra

Na Altar ku Seú

A multidisciplinary work framing Seú, the harvest feast, as an altar where culture lives.

Wearable art / installation

Junaiska Geferts

Kalbas di Kòrsou

Wearable art and sculpture made from the calabash, a 1,500-year-old island material that carries Curaçao's story.

Poem

dianjaranie peetam

SEU

A Papiamento poem on Seú — the harvest, its music and the rhythm that drives the farmers' work.

Painting / collage

Sandra Leonora (Chana i Vali)

Muchanan Perdi (Lost Children)

A painted collage on lost children, by a multidisciplinary artist working in dance, art and performance.

1st prize

Watercolour

Angelita Peterson

Papa's House 2012

A watercolour of a typical Saban cottage, holding memories of children's games and shared family meals.

2nd prize

Acrylic

Mary Thielman

Saba Nature Lady

An acrylic portrait weaving Saban identity together with the island's unique flora.

3rd prize

Music (soca)

Elvis Levenston

Groove with You

A soca song in which a Saban man joyfully invites his lady to dance — born of resilience and community.

Poem

Lisa Boysen

Grand Rising

A poem celebrating a 'Grand Rising' — a blessed morning coming alive in a traditional Saban yard.

1st prize

Short story

Rhea Courtar

Samson, Son of the Statian Soil

A short story following a day in the life of a young boy on 1970s Statia.

2nd prize

Poem

Zuwena Suares

Statia's Cultural Symphony

A poem using once-played instruments to evoke the harmony and rhythms of Statia's culture.

3rd prize

Video

Kengi Off The Grid

Being Adventurous on a Hidden Island

A video on an age-old ruin as a carrier of memory, identity and continuity on Sint Eustatius.

Poem

Stella Rose

Proud Statia Woman

A spoken-word poem affirming belonging and the enduring strength of Statian women.

Spoken word

Sara Stone

Culture Lives Here: The Spirit of Statia

A spoken-word work — culture lives in the land, the people, the food and the daily rhythm of Statia.

1st prize

Spoken word

KYRO

Petals On The Ground

A spoken-word reflection on Soualiga — salt as industry, the Ponum dance as celebration, identity and land.

2nd prize

Photo series

Jocselyn Mora

Heartbeat of the Rainbow

A photo series finding culture in the ordinary — gestures, colours and everyday life across Sint Maarten.

3rd prize

Poem

Graveyard Verses

We From Here

A poem on being a St. Maartener — embracing the culture and passing it on to the next generation.

Photography

Beverly Mae

BeverlyMae Photography

Photography capturing the many faces of the island's beaches and people.

Digital art / photography

Mara Bailey

Kum Leh Me Fix Ya Hair Forya

A portrait of island hair culture and the bond of doing each other's hair on the porch.

Graphic novel / Afrofuturism

Nelly Blaise

Kushobi Origins

An Afrofuturist graphic novel connecting African civilizations and Caribbean identity across past and future.

Drawing

Shannon Bell

Cultural Metamorphosis

A drawing using the metaphor of an amputation to reflect on Sint Maarten's overdevelopment and loss.

Photography (coffee-table book)

Andre Dede Knol

Keep SXM Moving

Photography documenting the island's athletes, sport facilities and cultural sportswear.

Mural

Lars Dasilva

Welcome to da City

A mural picturing Sint Maarten as historic, modern and ever-evolving all at once.

Architectural drawing

Jean-Marc Augusty

Vanishing Facades

Architectural drawings of six historic Sint Maarten buildings — culture living in vanishing facades.

Music video

Wolf Excentriek

We Love Our Culture

A self-written song and video by Sint Maarten schoolchildren on Carnival and culture through their own eyes.