CAA announces awards for 2002 - Art World - College Art Association of America; briefs - Brief Article

Art in America, April, 2002

The College Art Association announced this year's award recipients at its annual meeting in February, held in Philadelphia. Arlene Raven, critic-in-residence at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, won the Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism.

Curator Stephen Little won the Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award for museum scholarship for his catalogue Taoism and the Arts of China, which accompanied an exhibition of the same name at the Art Institute of Chicago. The Charles Rufus Morey Award for a distinguished art history book went to Dale Kent, professor of history at the University of California at Riverside, for Cosimo de' Medici and the Florentine Renaissance: The Patron's Oeuvre.

The award for distinguished teaching in art was given to Hans Haacke, who teaches at the Cooper Union in New York. Dale Kinney, dean of the graduate school of arts and sciences and professor at Bryn Mawr College, won the award for distinguished teaching in art history.

Painter Miriam Schapiro was given the distinguished artist award for lifetime achievement. Roger Shimomura won recognition for a distinguished body of work for "An American Diary," an exhibition of paintings based on the diaries kept by his Japanese-American grandmother while interned in Idaho during WWII.

Jonathan M. Reynolds of the University of Southern California was presented with the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize for his article in The Art Bulletin, "Ise Shrine and a Modernist Construction of Japanese Tradition." The award for a distinguished article in the Art Journal went to Joanna Roche of California State University, Fullerton, for "Performing Memory in Moon in a Tree: Carolee Schneemann Recollects Joseph Cornell."