2021 Spring Judged Exhibit

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

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.