Philadelphia ? An art school’s decision to give Martha Stewart a “Visionary Woman Award” has upset some students at the school but not because of the ImClone insider trading scandal.

Students at the all-female Moore College of Art & Design said they were unimpressed by Stewart’s image as a picture-perfect homemaker.

“She doesn’t represent at all who the students here are or what we hope to accomplish in our lives,” said Lynze Morris, a sophomore majoring in fine arts. “Why not pick a woman artist, a real artist, who we could all support and be proud to have here?”

Moore, founded in 1848 as a women’s visual arts college, announced in March that it would give the decorating entrepreneur the award for “her substantial impact and influence on American style and her unparalleled success building a powerful multimedia corporation.”

But college spokeswoman Henna Remstein said Friday that the school had talked of postponing the Oct. 4 award presentation because of the ImClone probe.

Later Friday, Remstein revised her statement and said only that school president Happy Fernandez was aware of current news reports.

Stewart has said that her sale in December of almost 4,000 shares of ImClone Systems Inc. was based on public information.

The trade occurred the day before the Food and Drug Administration announced it would not review the biotech company’s application for a cancer drug. A congressional committee is investigating the trade.

Stewart has denied any wrongdoing. A spokeswoman didn’t return a telephone call Friday.