Awards
CAA Awards for Distinction
By honoring outstanding member achievements, CAA reaffirms its mission to encourage the highest standards of scholarship, practice, connoisseurship, and teaching in the arts. With these annual awards, CAA seeks to honor individual artists, art historians, authors, curators, and critics whose accomplishments transcend their individual disciplines and contribute to the profession as a whole and to the world at large.
For more information about a particular award, and to read lists of past recipients and jury citations, click the name of that award in the “Also in This Section” menu to the right.
David Antin won the 2012 Frank Jewett Mather Award for Radical Coherency: Selected Essays on Art and Literature 1966 to 2005 (2011)
2012 Awards for Distinction
CAA has announced the recipients of the 2012 Awards for Distinction, which honor the outstanding achievements and accomplishments of individual artists, art historians, authors, conservators, curators, and critics whose efforts transcend their individual disciplines and contribute to the profession as a whole and to the world at large.
CAA will formally recognize the recipients at a special awards ceremony during the 100th Annual Conference in Los Angeles, on Thursday afternoon, February 23, 2012, 12:30–2:00 PM, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Led by Barbara Nesin, president of the CAA Board of Directors, the awards ceremony will take place in West Hall Meeting Room 502AB, Level 2; it is free and open to the public.
2011 Awards for Distinction
CAA formally recognized the recipients of the 2011 Awards for Distinction at a special ceremony held during the 99th Annual Conference in New York, on February 10, 2011, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Led by Barbara Nesin, president of the CAA Board of Directors, the ceremony took place in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium and preceded the Centennial Reception. In connection with CAA’s one-hundredth anniversary, past recipients of each award introduced the winners of the same award, bringing past and present together.
Centennnial Awards
In 2011, the CAA Board of Directors selected five extraordinary individuals—Philippe de Montebello, Agnes Gund, Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, and Stuart E. Eizenstat—as the distinguished recipients of CAA’s four Centennial Awards in recognition of the extraordinary time and expertise they have contributed to the visual arts in New York and across the nation. Special guests presenters gave the Centennial Awards during Convocation at the 99th Annual Conference and Centennial Kickoff at the Hilton New York on February 9, 2011.
CWA Annual Recognition Awards
From 1996 to 2008, the Committee on Women in the Arts presented Annual Recognition Awards at a ceremony during the CAA Annual Conference. At its October 2007 meeting, the CAA Board of Directors voted to establish a twelfth Award for Distinction, the Distinguished Feminist Award, which honors a person who, through his or her art, scholarship, or advocacy, has advanced the cause of equality for women in the arts. The Distinguished Feminist Award replaces the committee’s Annual Recognition Award.
Award Nominations
CAA will begin accepting your nominations for the 2013 Awards for Distinction, to be presented in February 2013 at the Annual Conference in New York, in spring 2012.
Contact
Please direct all queries regarding the Awards for Distinction to Lauren Stark, CAA manager of programs.
