the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Art Institute is happy to announce two recipients of our Members’ Scholarship this year, Sophia Mchedlishvili and Viancha Antonucci.
Sophia is the recipient of a $1500 scholarship. Sophia is graduating from Ridgewood High School and will attend the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and majoring in Industrial Design. She has been a student at RAI for 8 years, primarily a student of Joel Popadics but had also taken classes with Laura Paray and Rebecca Leer. She has won many awards at RAI throughout the years and has expressed that RAI has always been an important part of her life and that our classes provided valuable skills that will help her in college as well as beyond. Congratulations to Sophia and best of luck in college and your future art career!