CAA News Today
Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Awards
posted by Christopher Howard — August 27, 2008
The Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) has selected five recipients for its 2009 Lifetime Achievement Awards:
- Maren Hassinger, director of the Rinehart School of Graduate Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art
- Ester Hernandez, a San Francisco–based artist who was a pioneer in the Chicana/Chicano civil rights art movement
- Joyce Kozloff, a political and feminist artist who was a founding member of the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970s
- Margo Machida, a renowned authority on contemporary Asian American art and visual culture and associate professor at the University of Connecticut
- Ruth Weisberg, an artist and dean of fine arts at the University of Southern California
The awards ceremony will be held at the Wilshire Grand Hotel in Los Angeles on Saturday, February 28, 2009, in conjunction with the CAA Annual Conference. This ceremony, which is free and open to the public, will be the thirtieth anniversary of the awards. As in past years, the awards ceremony will include an accompanying catalogue, outlining the awardees’ accomplishments in greater detail. Please check the WCA website for more details about the ceremony (free), the awards dinner (tickets are $90 before December 1, 2008, and $105 after), and other planned events.
CAA Award Recipients Featured in Art in America
posted by Christopher Howard — August 25, 2008
Art in America’s 2008 Annual Guide to Galleries, Museums, and Artists hit newsstands earlier this month, with museum previews for the 2008–9 season as well as a look back at notable events and people of the past year. The “People in Review” section features Yoko Ono, Robert L. Herbert, Chris Kraus, and Sylvia Sleigh as honored recipients of CAA Awards for Distinction. The awards were presented in February 2008 at the CAA Annual Conference in Dallas–Fort Worth.
Download the Art in America feature; also, see the full list of 2008 award recipients.