Nominations Solicited for the CAA-Heritage Preservation Joint Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation

Heritage Preservation and the College Art Association invite nominations for the 2010 Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation. This award was initiated in 1990 for outstanding contributions by one or more persons who, individual or jointly, have enhanced understanding of art through the application of knowledge and experience in conservation, art history, and art.

The 2009 recipients are Carol Stringari and Michael Gordon for their work on the exhibition Imageless: The Scientific Study and Experimental Treatment of an Ad Reinhardt Black Painting, and for the research project that led to the exhibition. Click here for further information about the 2009 award.

Nominations for the 2010 Awards must be received by August 31, 2009, at the CAA, 275 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001. Guidelines for nominations can be found by clicking here or by contacting Emmanuel Lemakis of CAA at elemakis(a)collegeart.org.

Other former award winners include:

• in 2008, Elizabeth Bolman 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.