Nominations Solicited for the 2013
CAA-Heritage Preservation Joint Award
for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation
Heritage Preservation and the College Art Association invite nominations for the 2013 Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation. This award was initiated in 1990 to recognize an outstanding contribution by one or more persons who, individually or jointly, have enhanced understanding of art through the application of knowledge and experience in conservation, art history, and art.
The 2012 recipient is Francesca Bewer of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard Art Museums. Click here to read more about Dr. Bewer and this year’s award.
Nominations for the 2013 Awards must be received by August 31, 2012, at the CAA, 275 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001. Guidelines for nominations can be found by clicking here or by contacting Lauren Stark of CAA at lstark(a)collegeart.org.
Other former award recipients include:
- in 2011, Joyce Hill Stoner of the University of Delaware for her work in both the fields of scholarship and conservation.
- in 2010, David Bomford for his more than 30 years of scholarship, practical application, and leadership in the field of paintings conservation.
- in 2009, Carol Stringari and Chris McGlinchey for their work on the Guggenheim Museum’s exhibition Imageless: The Scientific Study and Experimental Treatment of an Ad Reinhardt Black Painting, and for the research project that led to the exhibition.
- in 2008, Elizabeth Bolman of Temple University for her work on the conservation of the wall paintings in the Red Monastery, a late-antique basilica near Sohag, Egypt, as well as the neighboring White Monastery.
- in 2007, Lawrence Becker and Christine Kondoleon for their publication The Arts of Antioch: Art Historical and Scientific Approaches to Roman Mosaics and a Catalog of the Worcester Art Museum Antioch Collection.
- in 2006, Don Kalec and Jim Thorpe for their work on the restoration of the Frank Lloyd Wright home and studio;
- in 2005, film preservationist Paolo Cherchi Usai;
- in 2004, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, founding director of the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art; and
- in 2003, Ernst van de Wetering for his book Rembrandt: The Painter at Work.