Paige Feldkamp, a junior at the Maryland Institute College of Art, is pursuing a Bachelor’s of Fine Art and plans to go onto grad school. In her student statement she wrote:  My love for watercolor started as a way of connecting to my grandmother, who is also a watercolorist. I am also very interested in […]

Emma Seely-Katz, a senior at the Pratt Institute, won a $2,000 Art Scholarship from the Frederic Whitaker and Eileen Monaghan Whitaker for Spring 2020. In her student statement she wrote: I am in my last year of working towards a BFA in Pratt Institute’s sculpture department. Over the past year, I have been working on […]

Hailey Thrasher is pursuing a double major in Art History and Illustration at Jacksonville University in Florida. She was awarded the Frederic Whitaker and Eileen Monaghan Whitaker Foundation Art History scholarship for Spring 2020. She plans to pursue a graduate degree and teach at the collegiate level.  The essay question for Spring 2020 was: Frederic […]

Diana Kovalchuk, a sophomore at Virginia Commonwealth University, was awarded an Honorable Mention Commendation for Art from the Frederic Whitaker and Eileen Monaghan Whitaker Foundation for Spring 2020.  In her student statement she wrote: “I was born in Central Asia, in Kazakhstan, one of the biggest and richest countries. I moved to Northern Virginia during […]

Martyna Kaminska, a freshman at Stony Brook University in New York, was awarded an Honorable Mention Commendation for Art from the Frederic Whitaker and Eileen Monaghan Whitaker Foundation for Spring 2020. In her student statement she wrote: “I have always dreamed of working in the art field because art has been a passion of mine […]

Ronna Raz, a freshman at the School of Visual Arts, was awarded an Honorable Mention for Art from the Frederic Whitaker and Eileen Monaghan Whitaker Foundation for Spring 2020. In her student statement she wrote: “My mind thinks in stories. My pieces all have something to tell, an idea they’re developing, a thought they want […]