Anna Margaret Pidgeon, a student at Marywood University, received an honorable mention commendation for Spring 2021 for her essay. This year’s prompt wasCompare Frederic Whitaker’s 1966 watercolors, painted during a disastrous fire season in California : “Crown Fire , Grazing Sheep” and “Fire in the Mountains.” * Upon first glance, the seemingly pastoral scene depicted […]
Claire Rich – Honorable Mention Commendation for Art History for Spring 2021
Claire Rich, a student at Boston University, was awarded an Honorable Mention Commendation for her essay. This year’s essay prompt: Compare Frederic Whitaker’s 1966 watercolors, painted during a disastrous fire season in California : “Crown Fire , Grazing Sheep” and “Fire in the Mountains.” * Albeit strikingly similar in their stylistic execution, the […]
Amuri Morris – Honorable Mention for Fine Art Spring 2021
My name is name is Amuri Morris and I’m studying studio art at Virginia Commonwealth University. My interest in art first developed when I was experiencing a brief period of homelessness as a child. Art became a form of escapism for me. The paintbrush in my hand allowed the boundary between reality and the imaginary […]
Sara O’Brien Honorable Mention for Fine Art Fall 2020
Sara O’Brien is a freshman student at the Cooper Union. In her student statement she wrote: One of the earliest memories I have is my grandma walking me around the corner from her house to meet my dad at his bus stop. I would greet him with a little homemade card covered in glue and […]
Vessna Scheff – Honorable Mention for Fine Art Fall 2020
“Waze” and “When You Feel Safe to Be You” Vanessa Scheff is a student at the Rhode Island School of Design. She earned an honorable mention for Fine Art in the Fall 2020 Frederic Whitaker and Eileen Monaghan Whitaker Foundation Scholarship program. In her student statement she wrote: My hair is natural. My hair is […]
Katherine Prior – Honorable Mention for Art History Essay Fall 2020
Katherine Prior is a sophomore Art History & Museum Professions major at the Fashion Institute of Technology. I was fortunate to grow up surrounded by the arts. I was homeschooled, so I was able to travel through Europe and over the United States because of my father’s job. In every place my family went, we […]