Awards
2011 CAA/Heritage Preservation Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation
Joyce Hill Stoner
Joyce Hill Stoner
Based at the University of Delaware’s Center for Material Cultural Studies, Joyce Hill Stoner is a highly respected scholar, a dynamic, beloved professor, and a meticulous conservator of paintings. Her educational and research interests reflect many years of interdisciplinary focus on art history and conservation, and her numerous articles, book chapters and exhibition catalogues attest to a lifetime of scholarly excellence. In the words of one nominator: “Three decades ago the prospect of conservation as a scholarly discipline was, at best, nascent if not merely notional. Since that time conservation scholarship has come to embody inquiries that include the investigation of an artist’s materials and techniques, the documentation of a contemporary artist’s ideas and intentions, the history of conservation, the development of new techniques in the conservation of art, to name but a few. Dr. Stoner has contributed essential research in each of these areas and has thereby fundamentally shaped the discipline.”
As the Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Material Culture Studies and director of the Preservation Studies Doctoral Program, which developed from the first art conversation program in the United States that she founded at her school in 1990, Stoner has developed an interdisciplinary focus on art history and conservation. Her publications, university teaching, and public outreach all focus on clear communication, the synthesis of technical studies and art history, and energetic, intellectual inquiry. She is in every way a fitting recipient of the CAA/Heritage Preservation Award.
Jury: Michele Marincola, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, chair; Nicholas Dorman, Seattle Museum of Art; and Rebecca Rushfield, independent conservator.
