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Congratulations 2025 Awards for Distinction Recipients!
posted Feb 25, 2025
Each year at the Annual Conference, CAA honors outstanding achievements in visual arts and art scholarship during Convocation by announcing the annual Awards for Distinction recipients. Congratulations to the 2025 awardees!
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Distinguished Award for Lifetime Achievement in Writing on Art
Carol Armstrong |
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Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement
Joan Jonas |
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Art Journal Award
Sara Callahan, “When the Dust Has Settled: What Was the Archival Turn, and Is It Still Turning?,” Art Journal, Spring 2024 |
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Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award Emerson Bowyer and Anne-Lise Desmas, eds., Camille Claudel, J. Paul Getty Museum/The Art Institute of Chicago, 2023 |
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Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, Collections, and Exhibitions
Joe Baker and Laura Igoe, eds., Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories, James A. Michener Art Museum/The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024 |
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Frank Jewett Mather Award
Philip Glahn and Cary Levine, The Future Is Present: Art, Technology, and the Work of Mobile Image, MIT Press, 2024 |
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Frank Jewett Mather Award
Grant H. Kester, Beyond the Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Avant-Garde to Socially Engaged Art, Duke University Press, 2023 |
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Charles Rufus Morey Book Award
Janet Catherine Berlo, Not Native American Art: Fakes, Replicas, and Invented Traditions, University of Washington Press, 2023 |
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Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize
Monica Bravo, “Mineral Analogs: Carleton Watkins’s Photographs and the Gold Standard,” The Art Bulletin, Fall 2024 |
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CAA/AIC Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation
Kimberley Muir and Jilleen Nadolny |
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Artist Award for a Distinguished Body of Work
Arnold J. Kemp |
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Distinguished Teaching Award (Art)
Bruce Jenkins |
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Distinguished Teaching Award (Art History)
Michael Leja |
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Distinguished Feminist Award (Art)
Mónica Mayer |
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Distinguished Feminist Award (Art History)
Karen Cordero Reiman |
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Excellence in Diversity Award
Arturo Lindsay |
Learn more about Awards for Distinction on our website and nominate individuals for 2026 Awards for Distinction now by completing this form!