My Illustration Professors from the American Academy of Art, Rich Kryczka (Illustration Department Head) and Tom Herzberg (Fine Art Department Head), and I with my oil painting, "Portrait of the Mason" at the 2008 American Academy of Art Annual Juried Student Show where I received the Peter C. Berry Scholarship / Students' Choice Award and the First Place in Illustration Award, both were awarded to this painting. This is the second year in a row I won these two awards.