The Marshall Hutson Award is presented each year to the best student teacher of Art and Design at The Crawford. Marshall Hudson (1903–2001) was born in Nottingham and having studied at the Nottingham College of Art, as well as in London, he began teaching at the Crawford School of Art in Cork in 1930 and was Vice-Principal from 1930 - 1962. He worked primarily as a painter and sculptor and exhibited regularly at the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) Gallery up until the 1980's. The award itself is a bronze sculpture created by the artist in the 1990s.