NAA’s 2021 Spring Judged Exhibit features original works by 29 NAA members. The following awards were presented by judge Katherine Downey Miller at our virtual reception on April 8:
First Place (tie) – Hilary Hanson Bruel, Mena Levit
Second Place – Nancy Motley Walton
Third Place – Nancy M. Daly
Honorable Mentions – Sheri Edsall, Yale Nicolls, Nancy Present-Van Broekhoven, Karen Shaw, Tova Speter
People’s Choice Award – Victoria Garbe
by Lisa Allman
acrylic & watercolor
12x16
$225
by Hilary Hanson Bruel
encaustic / mixed media
11x14
NFS
First Place
by Daniel Callahan
acrylic
16x20
$250
by Nancy M. Daly
watercolor
14x21
NFS
Third Place
by Alfred De Angelo
oil on canvas
11x21
$700
by Sheri Edsall
oil on paper
9.5x8.5
$400 *** SOLD ***
Honorable Mention
by Victoria Garbe
watercolor
14x11
NFS
People's Choice Award
by Nelson Hammer
watercolor
18x25
NFS
by Gail Hansen
silkscreen
10x10
$250
by Susan Hunt
acrylic
18x24
$2,000
by Kathleen Keating
acrylic on Yupo
12x14
$185
by Randa Khuri
watercolor
20x24
$450
by Mena Levit
pastel
12x16
NFS
First Place
by Barbara A. Marchilonis
watercolor
22x15
NFS
by Keith McClelland
colored pencil
9.5x8.5
NFS
by Yale Nicolls
acrylic on board
16x12 (19.5x15.5)
$400
Honorable Mention
by Joan E. Onofrey
collage, torn paper
12x16
NFS
by Nancy Present-Van Broekhoven
watercolor
25.5x20
$370
Honorable Mention
by Barbara Reynolds
watercolor
16.5x21
$400
by Mark J. Richards
oil on linen
30x40
$2,500
by Paula Rosen
acrylic
9x12
NFS
by Suzanne Saevitz
watercolor
9x12
NFS
by Raja Shaikh
oil
36x48
NFS
by Tova Speter
acrylic latex on scrap wood
9x28.5
$450
Honorable Mention
by Karen Shaw
oil on canvas
36x36
NFS
Honorable Mention
by Judith Silverstein
acrylic
11x14
$300
by Bobbie Suratt
pastel
23.5x19
$600
by Nancy Motley Walton
watercolor
25x32
$1,000
Second Place
by Naomi Y. Wilsey
watercolor
24x20
$350
About the Judge
Katherine Downey Miller is an artist and educator in Boston, MA. She received her BS in Painting from Skidmore College and her MFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
After graduating with her MFA, Katherine was a teaching assistant in Drawing and Painting at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO. She then went to Florence, Italy with a scholarship to teach Painting and Drawing at Studio Arts Centers College International. After returning to the U.S., she taught at the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Nantucket Island School of the Design and the Arts, and the Arlington Center for the Arts. Katherine continues to teach at various local art centers and museums such as the Danforth Museum in Framingham, MA and the New Art Center in Newtonville, MA, as well as teaching privately.
Katherine’s paintings center on nature and landscape, moving between representation and abstraction. Her work has been shown throughout New England primarily in Boston, nationally in New York and Colorado, and internationally in Europe.
Katherine’s work and her exhibition and award history can be found on her website at katherinedmiller.com.