Haimovicz Visual Arts Award for a High School Senior

AHCMC Announces 2010 Haimovicz Award Winner, Aaron Kuhn

© Aaron Kuhn, 2010.  "Bathtime for Switters", acrylic and mixed media, 24" x 24".

Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County (AHCMC) announces that AARON KUHN, a senior at Albert Einstein High School in Kensington, MD, is the 2010 recipient of the Ida F. Haimovicz Visual Arts Award. Mr. Kuhn will received a $3,000 cash award on Tuesday, June 8 at the reception for his solo exhibition at the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center, Montgomery College Takoma Park-Silver Spring Campus.

Aaron Kuhn, who works primarily with paint, credits Einstein’s visual arts magnet teachers, Mr. Michael Piechocinski and Ms. Jane Walsh, for helping him to think conceptually about his work and causing him to act as his own critic. After considering different art-related fields, Kuhn realized that he wanted to focus on the fine arts. “I feel that the fine arts are the most intellectually stimulating and emotionally moving of all fields of art,” he says, “and I hope to continue participating in this field.” Kuhn will be attending Cooper Union’s School of Art to study painting, and hopes to become a fine arts professor.

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The Exhibition will be open from 9am-3pm daily from Monday, June 7 - Wednesday, June 30, 2010.
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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).