2022 Naomi Rabb Winston 2-D Visual Art Scholarship Recipients
The National Society of Arts and Letters
April 16, 2022
2022 Naomi Rabb Winston 2-D Visual
Art Scholarship Recipients
2022 Recipients
Age Group 19-22
1. $4000 Caroline Josephine Crawford – Florida East Coast
2. $2000 Celia Rose Liberace – Washington DC
3. $1000 Etta Claire Gallaway – Ohio River Valley
4. $1000 Lucia Ann Martell – Greater New York
5. $1000 Rheia Newman – Ohio River Valley
Age Group 16-18
1. $2500 Sophia Congyu Sun - Birmingham
2. $1500 Laura Y. Hwang – Members at Large
3. $1000 Jennifer Turner – Florida East Coast
4. $1000 Jenna Marie Eidson - Indiana
5. $1000 Jordan A. Smajstria – Little Rock
The Naomi Rabb Winston Scholarship
Two-Dimensional Art
Judges for 2022
Polly Seip
Ever since Polly Seip was a young child, Polly knew she was different, and was destined to be an artist. Around the age of fourteen, her father introduced her to the work by renowned maritime artist, John Stobart, and she immediately developed an affinity for maritime art. In late 1994, Polly met John Stobart at his Pittsburgh gallery. It was then that Stobart recommended she pursue a classical art education at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts of Old Lyme, CT.
Six years later, Polly graduated from the Lyme Academy in 2000 with a BFA in Painting. Since 2000, Polly opted to stay in Connecticut to pursue her art career.
I have always had an affinity for light, water, nature and atmospheric perspective, and the genre of plein-air painting has enabled me to combine this with an artistic direction that is both challenging and satisfyin
Ron Kalla
A retired art educator with 35 years teaching experience from 1965 to 2009. Ron has taught all levels from kindergarten to college covering painting, drawing. print making, photography, ceramics and 3-D design classes and workshops. Retired from his last position with the Pittsburgh Public Schools at CAPA, The Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts.
Education includes BA in Art from Allegheny College, MED in Art Education from the University of Pittsburgh and post-graduate study at Ball State and Stanford Universities. Studio production consists primarily of painting and drawing.
Mauri Murrer
Mari Murrer, is a multi-faced artist, specializing in painting, drawing and ceramics
who has taught art at all instructional levels.
Her teaching tenure highlights instructional jobs at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA for three years in which classes were taught for pre-school children
and adults.
In addition, she taught at The Pittsburgh City Schools, Pittsburgh, PA for
13 years teaching 2-D & 3-D art classes at the middle and high school level.
She also taught art at the collegiate level.
Her teaching took her to CCAC in West Mifflin, PA where she taught art for five years and to Waynesburg College where she taught art for another five years writing ten different courses between the two institutions.
She is a 1976 graduate of Edinboro State College, Edinboro, PA and earned a BS in Art Education degree. She earned her M.F.A. painting degree from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY in 1978.
Later, she earned a Diploma in Specialize Technology from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in 1986 and has since taken many enrichment courses learning many computer software applications i.e., Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and Dreamweaver for website design and development.
