The American Association of University Women (AAUW) recently honored the work of Michelle Stump  by voting one of her images into the 19-artist winner’s circle in the national AAUW 2010 Art Contest. This was the second national award for Stump who was also a winner in the AAUW 2009 Art Contest.

 In the 2010 contest, designs by over 330 other entrants were voted on by thousands of AAUW members from across the country during February and March 2010. All 19 winning entries are displayed online at http://aauw.org/contests/winners.cfm. They will be published as a 2011 calendar and sent to over 100,000 AAUW members, who respond with monetary donations. This has historically resulted in significant funding for the association.

To have again used her talents as a digital artist to contribute to the AAUW has meant a lot to Stump. She joined the AAUW in 2006 and commented, “As a college graduate who entered the workforce in the 60’s, I have lived and worked through an incredible time for women in the history of the United States. Being able to make a contribution to the AAUW allows me to give back to an organization that has helped me over the course of many years.”

 Over the past 10 years Stump’s LLC, the Harp of the Spirit Publishing Company, has been recognized by the State of New Mexico for its contributions to the economic well being of the state, featured in the University of New Mexico 2007 Annual Report, and noted as an outstanding contributor to the Adobe User Group program. Stump has won awards from the UNM-Los Alamos Small Business Development Center, Imaging Professionals of the Southwest, New Mexico Magazine, and the American Association of University Women.

Stump is employed as a contract writer/editor at Compa Industries in Los Alamos, NM. She is assigned to the Information Resource Management Division, Communication Arts and Services Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Below is Stump's 2009 winning image, Skyward Dreaming.