232 people
decided who
won
Celebration of the Arts · Capital One Center · 19–20 September 2026
Celebration of the Arts · Capital One Center · 19–20 September 2026
Drawn at the start of the round. Nobody sees them coming, and every canvas has to use all three.
Two artists, side by side, with forty minutes on the clock — and a room watching every stroke of it happen.
Scan, vote, done — on the phone already in their hand. The room and the judges together decide the winner. One of them goes home.
19 September · 222 reached · 170 voted · 201 votes
Rodrigo Pradel
Nick Zimbro
HKS181
ULTRA
Imani K Brown
Steve Irwin
Jason White
Mike PachecoHKS181Rodrigo PradelImani K BrownJason WhiteImani K BrownHKS181Imani K Brown
20 September · 123 reached · 67 voted · 95 votes
Rodrigo PradelHKS181Imani K BrownSteve IrwinNick ZimbroULTRAMike PachecoJason WhiteRodrigo PradelImani K BrownMike PachecoNick ZimbroRodrigo PradelMike PachecoRodrigo Pradel
Saturday’s final drew 2.7× the ballots of the opening round — 34 in the quarter-finals, 91 by the time it was down to two. More people voted on the last painting of the night than the first. Across the weekend we reached 337 different people — 8 came both nights — and 232 of them cast a vote, 5 on both nights.
