A selection of these awards are given out each year at N.A.W.A.'s Annual Exhibition. These awards total $10,000 annually and are distributed in areas including, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, and mixed-media. This exhibition is open to all current NAWA members.

A list of awards is available for members in the member's only section of this website.

2009 Annual Award Recipients

Works on Canvas:

N.A.W.A. Medal of Honor & Anna Walinska Memorial Award - Mary Bell Steffen, Lancaster Lamb, Oil, 24" x 24"

Dorothy L. Irish Memorial Award for Oil or Acrylic - Ann C. Rosebrooks, The Recovery, Acrylic, 20" x 16"

Gladys B. Blum Memorial Award - Adele Grodstein, Fern with Pears, Oil, 16" x 20"

Jeffrey Childs Willis Memorial Award -Claire Heimarck, Shimmer, Mixed Media, 23.75" x 23.25"

Audrey Hope Shirk Memorial Award for Figure Painting - Audrey Frank Anastasi, Wading, Oil, 8" x 10"

Stelly Sterling Memorial Award - Pennie Brantley, Guardian, Oil, 12" x 12"

S. Magnet Knapp Memorial Award for Acrylic Painting - Valerie Lewis Mankoff, Alone, Acrylic, 24" x 24"

Solveig Stromsoe Palmer Memorial Award for a Conservative Portrait - Diane Hillier MacDonald, James,         Oil, 29" x 23"

Elizabeth Stanton Blake Memorial Award - Cynthia B. Crier, Illumination, Oil, 20" x 24"

Anna Walinska Memorial Award - Sharon Florin, Remembering Tower Records, Oil, 12" x 9"

Beatrice Jackson Memorial Award - Ikuko Roth, Lily Garden, Oil, 20" x 20"

Dorothy Schweitzer Memorial Award - Elaine Langerman, Paper Doll Series #10: Peas Please,                         Mixed Media, 10" x 8.25"

Clara Shainess Memorial Award for Innovative Abstract Work - Jean Goddeau, Under Tow,                             Batik & Collage, 18" x 24"

Dorothy Seligsons Memorial Award - JoAnne Sanborn, Beach Walkers, Acrylic, 16" x 12"

 

Works on Paper:

N.A.W.A. Medal of Honor & Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Award - Wilma Bulkin Siegel,                    Flower Children Grown Up - Series, AL, Watermedia, 30" x 22"

Florence B. Andresen Memorial Award - Lisa Collado, Mexican Memory, Mixed Media, 24" x 24"

Florence and Irwin Zlowe Memorial Award - Katherine Gray, Furrows IV, Pastel, 13" x 15.5"

Eve Helman Memorial Award - Michele Bonelli - Urban Abstracts Phase III, No. 1, Gouache & Ink, 20" x 20"

D. Wu & Ject-Key Memorial Award for Water Medium or Oil Painting - Amy Kool, Spring Garden Mosaic, Markers & Colored Pencils, 27" x 20"

Miriam E. Halpern Memorial Award - Ludlow Smethurst, Summer Table, Watercolor & Pastel, 28.5 x 22"

Miriam Russo Enders Award - Linda Capello, So Inclined, Red Conte, 16" x 20"

 Miriam Shorr Memorial Award for Watercolor - Judi Gilden, October Gold, Watercolor, 16.75" x 16.75"

Mary K. Karasick Memorial Award - Callie Hirsch, Nesting, Acrylic, 24" x 18"

Elizabeth Erlanger Memorial Award - Wendy Nicholas, Silence in the Outback, Collage, 15" x 20"

 

Sculpture:

N.A.W.A. Medal of Honor & Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Award - Madeleine Segall-Marx, Portrait of Kaz, Terracotta, 18" x 12" x 8"

Amelia Peabody Memorial Award - Jinx Lindenauer, Pear, Bronze, 15" x 11" x 11"

Anita Weschler Memorial Award - Elizabeth Page Purcell, Rosa di Mattina, Stone & Wood, 14.5" x 14.5" x 5.5"

Elizabeth Horman Memorial Award - Marlene Bremmer, Mr. X, Wood, 36" x 13.5" x 5"

Beatrice G. Epstein Memorial - Ann Hadley Lasusa, The Pilgrim's Progress, Mixed Media, 33.5" x 16.5"

Jean M. Leeman Memorial Award - Estelle Levy, The Sorceress, Stoneware, 15" x 15" x 15"

 

Printmaking/Photography/Computer Art:

N.A.W.A. Medal of Honor & Elizabeth Stanton Blake Memorial Award - Bernice Faegenburg, Quartet,        Etching, 26" x 21"

Virginia Stukey Memorial Award - Takayo Noda, The Night, Intaglio & Collage, 25" x 20"

Stelly Sterling Memorial Award - Alice H. Proskauer, Poet, Etching, 14" x 18"

Ernst & Cecile Holzinger Memorial Award - Erika Nusser, Ginger Fringe, C-Print, 16" x 20"

Esther K. Gayner Memorial Award - Laurinda Stockwell, Botanical, Digital Print, 32" x 20"

Marion de Sola Mendez Memorial Award - Jane Olin, Greta 2 from Greta Series, Tones GSP, 29" x 24"

 

Collage:

Dorothy Tabak Memorial Award for a Collage - Diane Price, East/West Checkee, Assemblage, 17" x 17" x 6"