Each year, the Arkansas Committee selects an accomplished Arkansas woman-identified visual artist to receive the ACNMWA Artist Award. The purpose of the award is to assist an accomplished woman artist to realize her vision and help to make her achievements more visible to the art community and the public.
This $4,000 award helps the artist to support and further her studio practice and may be used for any need or purpose, including studio expenses, equipment or supplies, child care, research, travel or study. Award selection is made by a committee of the Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The winner will be included in the next online Artist Registry and featured on ACNMWA social media posts during the year.
The 2024 application period deadline was January 31, 2024. The recipient will be announced in March.
2024 Artist Award Winner: Lisa Krannichfeld
Lisa Krannichfeld is an award-winning, multi-media figurative artist from Little Rock, Ark. Her work challenges traditional representations of women with a maximalist approach through the combination of seemingly incompatible materials. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colorado College and Master of Education degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She has exhibited work around the United States, parts of Europe, Australia and Asia. Her work belongs to prominent collections including the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, The Historic Arkansas Museum, Hot Springs National Park, The Bennett Collection, The Argenta Mural Project and The Oz Collection. Her work has received numerous juried art awards, the most recent being the 2023 Women United Art Prize in Painting/Drawing. Her work has been published extensively and is collected by art patrons worldwide.
From Lisa:
I have recently entered the world of mural painting and would like to increase my knowledge of technique and process through enrollment in courses led by master muralists. I also have a goal to write, illustrate, and publish a children’s book in the near future, and want to learn as much as I can about doing this through enrollment in online courses by authors and illustrators.
Gravitas
ink, watercolor, acrylic, paper collage, cyanotype, resin
46 x 41 x 2 in.
2023
My Body Was Hers and Mine
ink, watercolor, acrylic, graphite, concrete, resin on multi-layered shaped panels
30 x 25 x 3 in.
2023
Be Everything At All Moments
acrylic, concrete, resin on multi-layered shaped panels
38 x 28 x 3 in.
2023
3 Figures Mural
mural
approx. 14 x 30 ft.
2023
Bedtime Routine, Step 1
ink on Yupo paper
8 x 10 in.
2023
She's A Rainbow
ink, watercolor, acrylic, paper collage, cyanotype, resin
35 x 47 x 2 in.
2023
Past Recipients
2002
Maria Botti Villegas
2001
Ramona Wood
2000
Debora Warren
1998
Kathleen Holder
1996
Brandy Banks, Jerri Miller, Lynn Hackney
1995
Cynthia Powell, Lisa Brumbelow