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)
2013 Awards
CAA will name the recipients of the 2013 Awards for Distinction in January and honor them in a special ceremony during Convocation at the 101st Annual Conference in New York.
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 formally recognized the recipients at a special awards ceremony during the 100th Annual Conference in Los Angeles, on February 23, 2012, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Led by Barbara Nesin, president of the CAA Board of Directors, the awards ceremony took place in West Hall Meeting Room 502AB, Level 2.
Centennial Awards
At the 100th Annual Conference and Centennial Celebration, the CAA Board of Directors honored three eminent individuals and one organization—Deborah Marrow, Edythe and Eli Broad, and California Lawyers for the Arts—as the distinguished recipients of CAA’s second Centennial Awards in recognition of the time and expertise they have contributed to the visual arts in California and across the nation. Their work was recognized during Convocation at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Wednesday, February 22, 2012.
One year earlier, the board selected five extraordinary individuals—Philippe de Montebello, Agnes Gund, Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, and Stuart E. Eizenstat—to receive the first Centennial Awards in celebration of their dedication to the visual arts in New York and nationally. Special guest presenters gave the 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.
Contact
Please direct all queries regarding the Awards for Distinction to Lauren Stark, CAA manager of programs.
