ANNUAL EXHIBITION AWARDS
Each year, thanks to the generous donations given to the organization, the National Association of Women Artists, Inc. (NAWA) is able to award talented professional women artists with monetary prizes at the Annual Members Exhibition Reception. NAWA is also able to give out award prizes during the year at other exhibitions.
NAWA’S 134th ANNUAL MEMBERS’ EXHIBITION AWARD WINNERS
ANY MEDIUM
The Bernadette Award
Sandra Giunta, Gradations 14
Cecile Adler Cliffer Memorial Cutting Edge Award
Mayya Bork, Trust In Me Joanne
Bobbi Mastrangelo Environmental Art Award
Anita Zotkina, Rhino Friend
NAWA Merit Flatscreen Award
Randy Globus, The Nurturers
NAWA Merit Flatscreen Award
Carolyn Latanision, A Day at the Beach
NAWA Merit Flatscreen Award
Leni Paquet-Morante, Composed Shallow (Three Leaves)
NAWA Merit Flatscreen Award
Patricia Zalisko, For the Bees
PAINTINGS
Elizabeth Stanton Blake Memorial Medal of Honor Award
Lully Schwartz, Chapter One
Helen Stark Andrey Memorial Award
Monica Shulman, Arms Around a Memory
Raissa Ageeva Award
Joan Appel, Glass Box
Miriam Russo Enders Award
Kim McAninch, Where the Lemon Trees Bloom 36
The Liana Moonie Memorial Award for an Innovative Abstract Landscape
Hilda Green Demsky, Fresh Water Stone Garden
Solveig Stromsoe Palmer Memorial Award for Conservative Portraits in Oil
Sonia Stark, Portrait
Audrey Hope Shirk Memorial Award for Figure Painting
Lola Stanton, Gary
The Matilde and Mark Award
Irene Nedelay, Hudson Valley
Sandi DeFranco Giannini Memorial Award
Marilyn Orner, Syllables
WORKS ON PAPER
Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Medal of Honor Award
Margie Greve, Dressmaker
Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Award
Leslie Waxtel, Garden of Creatures
Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Award
Nancy S. Rosen, Loony Tunes
Eve Helman Memorial Award
Claudia Flynn, Flight
Miriam Shorr Memorial Award for Watercolor Works on Paper
Sharon Krinsky, My World
BLICK Award for Pastels
Fang Sullivan, Apple in Winter
Dorothy Cochran Award
Marian Sims Harris, A New Tomorrow
Olivia Koopalethes Memorial Award
Roz Dimon, Eleanor Roosevelt: What’s Going On?
Gloria Devereaux, AWS Memorial Award
Christie Devereaux, Mysteries of the Aging Torso
PHOTOGRAPHY/DIGITAL
Judith Cantor Memorial Medal of Honor Award
Anita Fina Kiewra, Up Over Heads
Elizabeth Horman Memorial Award
Linda Mulhauser, Shadow of Itself
Virginia Stukey Memorial Award
Melinda Welker, Fish Out of Water
Suzanne M. Bianchi Memorial Award
Susan Phillips, Staircase, Barcelona
Clara Viau-Deluca Memorial Award
Jody Cukier, Mussels on a Tray
Mary E. Slocum-King Memorial Award
Joanna Biondolillo, What is Female?
MIXED MEDIA/COLLAGE
Anna Walinska Memorial Medal of Honor Award
Carole Kunstadt, Wanderlust I
Judith Cantor Memorial Award
Joan Moreau McKeever, The Storyteller
Harry L. Coleman Memorial Award
Margaret Schnebly-Hodge, Equilibrium
Globus Family Award in memory of Ric Globus
Penny Dell, Space Junk
Elsie G. Hammond Memorial Award
Rhonda Urdang, Geisha in Murasaki Kimono (Tokyo, 1908)
SCULPTURE
Caroline M. Lupori Fund Memorial Medal of Honor Award
Tricia Adler, Calmness Settles With Blue
David and Leon Antar Memorial Award
Maidy Morhous, Childproof?
Virginia Hammond Memorial Award/ Sculpture
Jacqueline Lorieo, Invasive
Janet Suslak Indick Award for Contemporary Abstract Sculpture
Larisa Waya, Swan of Isabella
Kaufman Award For Ceramic Sculpture
Jo-Anne Reske Kirkman, The Hidden Thorn
Linda Stein Award
Carol Boram-Hays, Skitter
FIBER ARTS
arttimesjournal Award
Julie O’Connor, Monk’s Robes, Tibet
Elise Wiarda Award for Healing in Fiber Arts
Carol Larson, Fire & Flood 3
Caroline M. Lupori Fund Memorial Award
Karla Leopold, Our Lost Children
NAWA’S 134th Annual Members’ Exhibition Jury Panel
JENN BRATOVICH
Jenn Bratovich is Director of Exhibitions and Programs at Print Center New York, where she works with artists, publishers, curators, writers, and arts programmers to think about print. Since joining Print Center New York she has helped shepherd the organization through its move to a new, ground-floor exhibition space in the heart of Chelsea; contributed to sharpening the organization’s curatorial vision; and led development of a new exhibition and artist development program to support emerging artists. She has previously held positions at Hunter College Art Galleries and Women›s Studio Workshop. Jenn holds an MA in art history from Hunter College. She is interested in how print fits into wider contemporary practices including sculpture, installation, and performance.
ANNA CONLAN
Anna Conlan is the Neil C. Trager Director of The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, New York. Anna is a museum worker and art historian who has worked in museums and the arts for more than twenty years, including The Royal Acad- emy of Art in London and The Museum for African Art in New York. During her time as Curator and Exhibitions Manager at The Dorsky Anna curated several exhibitions, includ- ing “Life After The Revolution: Kate Millett’s Art Colony for Women”, “Totally Dedicated: Leonard Contino, 1940-2016” and “New Folk: Hudson Valley Artists 2020.” She was a curatorial consultant and catalog author for the award-winning “Art After Stonewall: 1969-89” exhibition that toured nationwide. Anna’s research on queer feminist cultural history is published in Feminist Theory Journal and Gender, Sexuality, and Museums: A Routledge Reader. She has an MA in Feminism and the Visual Arts from the University of Leeds, UK, and an MA in Museum Anthropology from Columbia University, NY.
KATE OH TRABULSI
Kate Oh Trabulsi is a Korean-American artist based in New York. She is a graduate of Parsons the New School for Design, from which she holds both a B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Fine Arts with a focus on painting and sculpture.
Since 2004 Kate has been working as a Docent for the Highlights Tour at The Metro- politan Museum of Art. Inspired by the scope and the beauty of the Asian art collection at the Met, she began to appreciate further the fine arts of Asia, in particular, the Korean folk painting Minhwa. As an artist, she uses materials and techniques true to Minhwa tradition as well as exploring contemporary Minhwa practices. Her work has been displayed in solo exhibitions and group shows worldwide.
Currently, Kate serves as a member of the International Committee of The Federation of Korean Artistic & Cultural Organization as well as its Korea – US Honorary Ambassador, in addition to serving as the Executive Vice President of the Korean – New York Artist Association. She is also the founder of Kate Oh Gallery in New York, which aims to raise awareness for emerging artists at the intersection of both Eastern and Western art. In addition, she lectures and conducts a course on Korean Folk Traditions at Rutgers University.