Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Maryland

Haimovicz Visual Arts Award for a High School Senior


2010 Award Application Information

Application Preparation Workshop
Saturday, March 13 at 1pm
AHCMC Offices
801 Ellsworth Drive, Silver Spring
To register, click here

Download the Instructions by clicking here
Read these Instructions before downloading the application or signature pages

Download the Application Form here
Applications are due by email no later than Friday, April 16 at 5pm. 

Download the Signature Pages here
Signature Pages and sketchbooks are due no later than Friday, April 30 at 5pm to the AHCMC Offices.

2010 Exhibition and Award Presentation

Award Presentation and Opening Reception
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center
at Montgomery College, Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus
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Exhibition will be open from 9am-3pm daily from Monday, June 7 - Wednesday, June 30, 2010.

About the Ida F. Haimovicz Visual Arts Award

The Ida F. Haimovicz Visual Arts Award, now in its thirteenth year, was established by the family of the late Ida F. Haimovicz to support a Montgomery County high school senior intent on pursuing a visual arts career. The Haimovicz award, a cash award of $3,000, is administered by the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County.

At age 64, Mrs. Haimovicz, a resident of North Bethesda, attended a sculpture class at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. This class started Mrs. Haimovicz on a much-loved hobby, says her son Joseph Hamer. “She began sculpting at home, but the clay became heavier and heavier as she grew older. She realized that she should have started much earlier in life.”  Mrs. Haimovicz wanted to provide financial aid to deserving high school students to enjoy their creativity while still young.

Past receipients include Elena Hutchinson (2009), Brooke Kao (2008), Hannah Wides (2007), Jamie Eakin (2006), Rebecca Sugar (2005), Julia Chiplis (2004), Christine Wang (2003), Gabriel Abrantes (2002), Brendan Wiuff (2001), Justin Craun (2000), James Johnson (1999), and Rachel Cox (1998).