College Art Association (CAA) 2019 Awards

The College Art Association has revealed the winners of its 2019 awards for distinction, with Edward J. Sullivan being named for the Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award with Nancy S. Steinhardt. Sullivan has been teaching and writing about modern and contemporary art of Latin America and the Caribbean for over thirty years. Edward Sullivan is the Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of the History of Art at the Institute of Fine Arts & the Department of Art History in New York University (NYU). The organization's Distinguished Feminist Awards this year went to artist Senga Nengudi, and to City University of New York art history professor Anna C. Chave. CAA's Award for Excellence in Diversity for 2019 went to UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center. A full list of CAA's 2019 awards for distinction follows below: Artist Award for Distinguished Body of Work Ursula von Rydingsvard Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement Howardena Pindell Distinguished Teaching of Art Award Susanne Slavick Distinguished Feminist Award—Visual Artist Senga Nengudi Distinguished Feminist Award—Scholar Anna C. Chave Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award Nancy S. Steinhardt Edward Sullivan Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art Molly Nesbit Award for Excellence in Diversity Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) Charles Rufus Morey Book Award Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Kinaesthetic Knowing: Aesthetics, Epistemology, Modern Design (University of Chicago Press, 2017) Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award Wendy Kaplan, "Design in California and Mexico 1915–1985: Found in Translation," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2017 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, Collections, and Exhibitions Andrew C. Weislogel and Andaleeb Badiee Banta, "Lines of Inquiry: Learning from Rembrandt's Etchings," Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 2017 Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism Julia Bryan-Wilson, Fray: Art + Textile Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2017) Rebecca M. Schreiber, The Undocumented Everyday: Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) Art Journal Award Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra, "Beyond Evil: Politics, Ethics, and Religion in Léon Ferrari's Illustrated Nunca más," Art Journal, Fall 2018 Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize Nathan T. Arrington, "Touch and Remembrance in Greek Funerary Art," the Art Bulletin, September 2018 CAA/AIC Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation Karl S. Buchberg Jodi Hauptman Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Andrea Giunta, and Rodrigo Alonso were finalists for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award with the exhibition: "Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985," Hammer Museum, University of California, 2017, but the award was granted to Wendy Kaplan for the exhibition: "Design in California and Mexico 1915–1985: Found in Translation," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2017.