Marissa North – Award for PAINTING – Cranston High School East
Ella Rose – Award for 3-D/Mixed Media – Cranston High School West
Elizabeth Cowart – Award for Drawing – Cranston High School West
Mary Tyer-Witek – Award for Digital Art – Portsmouth High School
Page Sullivan – Award for Photography – Portsmouth High School
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Since 1962, Wickford Art Association has annually awarded scholarships to outstanding students in the community. In order to fund the awards, artists generously donate their fine art for a Raffle at the annual summer Wickford Art Festival. The raffle allows WAA to provide substantial Scholarship Program awards to 5 public high school students attending college the following fall provided by Wickford Art and our collaborative partner RIAEA – Rhode Island Art Education Association. The Scholarship program awards help offset students’ college expenses, allowing them to focus on their continued studies in art.
WAA will hold the 2022 Raffle during the summer Wickford Art Festival on July 9 & 10, 2022– The DRAWING will be held at 4pm on Sunday- July 10th from the WAA Gallery: 36 Beach Street, North Kingstown, RI 02852. You can support this worthy cause by buying raffle tickets prior to the festival or dyas-of: winners do not need to be present in order to win. Our artists donate more than $10,000 worth of art each year! Please stop in our gallery or contact us if you would like to purchase tickets before the 59th Wickford Art Festival. COST– $1/ticket, $5/8, $10/16. Winners, notified by text, e-mail or phone call, may collect prizes FIRST COME – FIRST SERVE on Sunday 7/10 from (4:30-6:00pm) or Tuesday through Friday (noon-4pm).
All cash donations collected through our in-gallery pal, Wanda through March 2021 will directly benefit the Scholarship Program. If you stop by the gallery to visit our amazing exhibits, to take a class, or to attend one of many Community Events planned this year, we welcome any and all cash donations for this cause!
A recent donation to WAA from Linda & John Hughes, Steven Stroud’s Leonard’s at Dusk is a lovely landscape finished in a guided-frame (43″ wide x 25″ high); accompanied by Certificate of Authenticity from Newbury Fine Art, this work was appraised at $4,200 and is offered for SALE at $3,500 to directly benefit the WAA / RIAEA Scholarship Fund.
LEONARD’S AT DUSK – by Steven Stroud