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 a list of past recipients, click on the corresponding link in the menu to the right.
2010 Award Nominations
CAA is now accepting nominations for the 2010 Awards for Distinction, to be presented at the 98th Annual Conference in Chicago. Please read the submission information for details on how to honor a colleague.
2009 Award Recipients
CAA President Paul Jaskot formally recognized the 2009 Awards for Distinction recipients at Convocation, held during CAA’s 97th Annual Conference on Wednesday, February 25, 2009, at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California. The Annual Conference—hosting scholarly sessions, panel discussions, career-development workshops, art exhibitions, and more—is the largest gathering of artists, art historians, students, and arts professionals in the United States.
Contact
Please direct all queries regarding the Awards for Distinction to Lauren Stark, CAA manager of programs.




