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NOAFA Celebrates Successful Student Exhibition 2025
On Saturday, May 10, 2025, the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts (NOAFA) welcomed hundreds of attendees to its Uptown New Orleans campus for its Student Exhibition 2025, an annual art exhibition consisting only of work from its student body from the last academic year.
The evening, which featured local food, live music, and one-of-a-kind-art, coincided with the Magazine Street Merchant Association's Spring Champagne Stroll, which NOAFA also helped to sponsor.
The Student Exhibition 2025 boasted over 250 student-made artworks across the Academy's two galleries, including ceramic creations, drawings, paintings, photographs, and more. It celebrated not only the incredle work done by our school's talented students. but also the expert leadership of its hardworking faculty.
As part of this year's Exhibtion, Academy leadership awarded select students with scholarships and awards in the arts for the demonstrated excellence of their creations.
Please join us in congratulating the below students for their awards as part of the 2025 Student Exhibition:
The Coleman Family Scholarship Award:
Erin Orlowski
The Director's Award:
Rachel Williams
Faculty Award Recipients:
Caitlyn Guidry (Awarded by Zona Wainwright)
Shelly Sessions (Awarded by Nell Tilton)
James Ball (Awarded by Brooke Howell)
Paige Morrison (Awarded by Andrew Rodgers)
Aimee St. Armant Spangenberg (Awarded by Carol Peebles)
Josh Domilise (Awarded by Patti Adams)
Olivia Gallo (Awarded by Arturo Perez)
Rachel Williams (Awarded by Heidi Mortensen)
Joseph Cerise (Awarded by Dave Hotstream)
Lauren Goforth (Awarded by Jonathan Hodge)
Sabrina Harper (Awarded by Lyle Colombo)
Tina Geisler (Awarded by Garth Swanson)
Maryanne Pranikoff (Awarded by Nicole Charbonnet)
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