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Congratulations to the 2024 Distinguished Awardees!

posted Mar 04, 2024

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 this year’s awardees!

Distinguished Award for Lifetime Achievement in Writing on Art

W.J.T. Mitchell

Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement

Carrie Mae Weems and Suzy Lake

Art Journal Award 

Ken Gonzales-Day, “Race, Whiteness, and Absence in Studio Practice,” Art Journal, Fall 2023

Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award 

Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, James A. Doyle, and Joanne Pillsbury, eds., Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022

Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, Collections, and Exhibitions 

Perrin Lathrop, ed., African Modernism in America, Yale University Press and the American Federation of Arts, 2022

Frank Jewitt Mather Award 

Kobena Mercer, Alain Locke and the Visual Arts, Yale University Press, 2022

Frank Jewitt Mather Honorable Mention

Andrea Giunta, The Political Body: Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America, trans. Jane Brodie, University of California Press, 2023

Charles Rufus Morey Book Award 

Matthew Francis Rarey, Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic, Duke University Press, 2023

Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize 

Daniel M. Zolli, “Making Up Materials: Donatello and the Cosmetic Act” The Art Bulletin, 105.4, 2023: 36–63.

CAA/AIC Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation 

Han Neevel and Birgit Reissland