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New CAA Award for Distinguished Feminist
At its October 2007 meeting, the CAA Board of Directors voted to establish a twelfth Award for Distinction: the Distinguished Feminist Award. The award honors a person who, through his or her art, scholarship, or advocacy, has advanced the cause of equality for women in the arts. A three-member jury, appointed by CAA’s Board president and the vice president for committees from an open call for nominations and self-nominations, selects the recipient each year, beginning in 2008 for the 2009 awards.
The Distinguished Feminist Award replaces the Annual Recognition Awards given by CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts, which were presented from 1996 to 2008.
By honoring outstanding member achievements through the annual Awards for Distinction, CAA reaffirms its mission to encourage the highest standards of scholarship, practice, connoisseurship, and teaching in the arts. With these awards, presented each year at the Annual Conference, CAA honors individual artists, art historians, authors, conservators, curators, and critics whose accomplishments transcend their individual disciplines and contribute to the profession as a whole and to the world at large.