Susan Jane Walp

Education

1970 Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, Bachelor of Arts with Distinction and Honors in Painting

1968 Boston University School of Fine Arts at Tanglewood, Lenox, MA, Summer

1969-71 New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, New York, NY

1971 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

1972,79 Brooklyn College, MFA Program, Brooklyn, NY (degree not completed)

Awards

2009 Academy Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters; National Academician Membership, National Academy Museum, New York, NY

2007 Bogliasco Fellowship in Painting, Liguria Study Center, Bogliasco, Italy

2006 Benjamin Altman Prize, 181st Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York, NY

2004 Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting

1988 Vermont Council on the Arts Grants for Individual Artists, Honorable Mention

1984 Art Director’s Club Award; American Institute of Graphic Arts Award; Society of Illustrators Award; American Illustration Award

1978 New York Creative Arts Public Service Program (CAPS) Fellowship

1977 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

1971 Barklie McKee Henry Memorial Scholarship, Skowhegan; Purchase Prize in Drawing, Skowhegan