UPCOMING
NAWA is the proud sponsor of The Margo Harris Hammerschlag Direct Carving competition. This is an open call for the biannual award of $5,000 for women artists 18+, U.S citizens or permanent residents of the country. The three jurors are: Natalie Frier, Carol Schwartz and Madeline Wiener.
All work must be original with a minimum of 75% produced by direct carving. The winner will be announced in February 2022.
The 2019 winner was Susan Clinard.
AWARDS FOR NAWA EXHIBITIONS
132nd Annual Members Exhibition
ANY MEDIUM
Cecile Adler Cliffer Memorial Cutting Edge Award
Patricia Chiacu Apuzzo, Far Out
The Bernadette Award
Debbie Hughes, Impedance in Slumber
Bobbi Mastrangelo Environmental Art Award
Carole Kunstadt, Sacred Poem LXII
SCULPTURE
NAWA Merit Award
Maidy Morhous, 3 Second Rule
Florence & Irwin Zlowe Memorial Medal of Honor Award
Madeline Lord, Craftsman Tulip
David Antar Memorial Award
Val Brochard, Break Out
Council of American Art Societies, Inc. Award for Excellence in Representational Sculpture
Sarah Katz, The Dance
Virginia Hammond Memorial Award
Priscilla Heep-Coll, Proud Mother
Janet Suslak Indick Award for Contemporary Abstract Sculpture
Julie Warren Conn, Fallen Angel
Celia Kaufman Award for Innovative Ceramic Sculpture
Mary Nicholson, The Wave – Ode to Hokusai
Raquel Rub Award Memorial Creative Sculpture Award
Raisa Nosova, Prisoner in White
Linda Stein Award
Sandra Giunta, Emanation
PAINTING
Elizabeth Stanton Blake Memorial Medal of Honor Award
Chelsie Tamala, Mother-to-be
Helen Stark Andrey Memorial Award
Christine Norris, I’ve Got My Ducks In A Row
Miriam Russo Enders Memorial Award
Irene Nedelay, Old Flame
Beatrice Jackson Memorial Award
Niamh Ultaigh, Singularity
S. Magnet Knapp Memorial Award
Jane Baldridge, Bulkhead Blues
The Liana Moonie Award for an Innovative Abstract Landscape
Elise Beattie, Window On My Universe
Solveig Stromsoe Palmer Memorial Award for Conservative Portraits in Oil
Lola Sandino Stanton, Survivor
Audrey Hope Shirk Memorial Award for Figure Painting
Judith Carlin, Devil’s Dream Come True #2
MIXED MEDIA/COLLAGE
Anna Walinska Memorial Medal of Honor Award
Patricia Turner, Treasonous Clowns
Judith Cantor Memorial Award
Leah Tomaino, Paradise Mt. Ranier
Harry L. Coleman Memorial Award
Sara Zigdon, Avigail
Globus Family Award in memory of Ric Globus
Lucinda Abra, In One’s Element
Elsie G Hammond Memorial Award
Mary Jean Jaishiama Jacobs, Shahrazad
The Matilde Award
Kathy Ferguson, Autumn Memories
PHOTOGRAPHY/DIGITAL
Judith Cantor Memorial Medal of Honor Award
Penelope Breen, Strong
Suzanne M. Bianchi Memorial Award
Pamela Waldroup, Like a River
Elizabeth Horman Memorial Award
Sandy Dimke, Unleashed in Nature
Virginia Stukey Memorial Award
Hiroko Okahashi, Memory
Clara Viau-Deluca Memorial Award
Carolyn Rogers, Bent Palm
WORKS ON PAPER
Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Medal of Honor Award
Cheryl Vlachos, Magnolia Dance
Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation – 1st place
Neal Kleman, Face Behind the Mask
Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation – 2nd Place
Nancy Jacey, Snowy Day
Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation – 3rd place
Randy Globus, Confronting My Demons
Eve Helman Memorial Award
Lucy Gans, I Am Nobody
Miriam Shorr Memorial Award
Winifred Breines, White Pottery and Peppers
Olivia Koopalethes Memorial Award
Marian Harris, One Of a Kind
FIBER ARTS
Art Times Journal Award
Carol Nipomnich Dixon, Flowing
Elise Wiarda Award for Healing and Fiber Arts
Karla Leopold, Fractured
NAWA Beyond the Frame
July 5 – October 4, 2021
Patricia Anderson Turner, Assault on Orlando
Patricia Anderson Turner, Assault on Orlando
NAWA Layering Collage and Mixed Media Online
September 10 – November 5, 2021
1st Place:
Lucy Gans
Letters From My Mother
Collage 22 x 30 in
2nd Place:
Rhonda Urdang
Queen Victoria with Harriet Tubman as Suffra-Jette 1867
Collage 16 x 11 in
Rhonda Urdang,
Queen Victoria with Harriet Tubman as Suffra-Jette 1867
3rd Place:
Elena Zelenina
Perfect Stranger
Mixed Media 20 x 16 in
Honorable Mention:
Constance Culpepper, Chair With Bouquet
Collage 22 x 18 in
MEMBER AWARDS/OTHER
Art Society of Kingston, NY Annual 2021 Awards
Carole Kunstadt, Pressing On
