Colors on Canvas 2025

Colors on Canvas 2025 Banner Art Awards Celebration

Congratulations and thank you to every young artist participant at Grant TK8 School. They created a sense of vibrancy and place with the installation of their 70 hand painted business focused gigantic banners!

The Colors on Canvas 2025 Banner Art Awards Celebration was held on Monday, February 24, 2025 from 4:00PM – 7:00PM in the Community Room and Patio of the Mission Hills Library, located at 215 West Washington. We greatly appreciate Stephen Wheeler, librarian, and his staff for their unwavering support!

Thanks to a grant from the County of San Diego, at the urging of Supervisor Monica Montgomery Steppe, and continuing support from the City of San Diego, beginning in September 2024, Grant School Artist in Residence Sarah Ekedal worked with TK8 students to create 70 hand painted colorful banners showcasing the businesses of Mission Hills. Rosanna Photography photographed the banner delivery, in-class painting, banner pick-up, 70 individual banners to create mini-banners for the celebration cake, judges forms and for take-home by students and their families, as well as photographing the banner installation and the Awards Celebration. The Mission Hills BID owes a debt of gratitude gratitude to the 14 Colors on Canvas judges who created 4,900 individual pieces of data to evaluate every banner: Stuart White of Stuart White Design, Jamaal Jackson of US Bank – Mission Hills, Daniel Geddis Team D&B at One Mission Realty, Alejandro Salazar of SD Art Advisory, Jason Weisz of Senator Akilah Weber Pierson’s office, Miki Holmes of California State Assemblymember Chris Ward’s office, Logan Braydis of San Diego City Councilmember Stephen Whitburn’s office, Joshua Dunn of San Diego County Supervisor Monica Montgomery Steppe’s office, Elvi Olesen a Community Volunteer and Art Patron, Faith Bretow an Artist and Community Volunteer, Jill Boyle a Mission Hills resident, Dixie Hall a Mission Hills resident, John Bertsch a Realtor with Coldwell Banker West Mission Hills, and Jesse Zmuda a florist and Mission Hills resident.

The banners were installed on lampposts throughout Mission Hills from December 22, 2024 through March 10, 2025. And, yes, among the nearly 200 attendees, you may see some familiar faces, a friend or a neighbor or yourself in the photo line-up.

As you are looking through the photo gallery and see a banner you wish to have, please contact Susan McNeil Schreyer at MissionHillsBID@gmail.com and she will let you know if it is still available. We are seeking a $49 delivery fee for each banner. How lucky would you be to land a hand painted banner of your business? All proceeds go toward next year’s Colors on Canvas 2026.

Please scroll through the gallery and enjoy for the first time or relive the fun evening!

Be sure to also check out the list of top scoring hand painted banner artists. This year we recognized 46 winners. Surely you will know some of them!