The Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) and AAMC Foundation has named the recipients of its 2019 Awards for Excellence. The twenty winners of the annual, peer-juried awards were recognized for groundbreaking projects on race, sexuality, censorship, and the environment, among other topics, and were honored at a special celebration held at the Rubin Museum in New York on Sunday, May 5.
This year’s winners in the category of exhibitions are Mindy N. Besaw, curator of American Art at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Taína B. Caragol, curator of painting and sculpture and Latinx art and history at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery; Kristen Collins, curator of manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum; Bryan C. Keene, associate curator of manuscripts at the Getty; artist Tom Joyce, a guest curator at the Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles; UCLA professor Allen F. Roberts; Marla C. Berns,...director of the Fowler Museum; Karen Kramer, curator of Native American and Oceanic art and culture at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM); and independent curator Jen Mergel.
In the category of catalogues awards went to Wassan Al-Khudhairi, chief curator of contemporary art at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Corinne Granof, curator of academic programs at the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University; Amy Beste, director of public programs at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Karl Kusserow, curator of American art at the Princeton University Art Museum; William & Mary University professor Alan C. Braddock; Sarah Kelly Oehler, chair and curator of American art at the Art Institute of Chicago; and Esther Adler, associate curator at the Museum of Modern Art.
In addition, John P. Lukavic, curator of Native arts at the Denver Art Museum received an award for his essay “What Should Have Been, What Is, And What Will Be” in the Denver Art Museum’s exhibition catalogue for “Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer” (2018) and Trevor Smith, curator of the Present Tense initiative at the Peabody Essex Museum, and Lydia Gordon, assistant curator for exhibitions and research at PEM, won for their digital publication “PlayTime” (2018).
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We encourage nominations for both affiliated and independent curators that offer new methodologies, consider the public’s understanding, and advance the field through our Awards for Excellence.
Awarded annually at the AAMC & AAMC Foundation Annual Conference & Meeting, and open to all AAMC members in good standing, the Awards for Excellence celebrate curatorial excellence with non-cash prizes. The Awards are the only of their kind by which curators honor their own. Click here to view past awardees>
Awards are given in the following categories:
Outstanding Printed Exhibition or Permanent Collection Catalogue (awarded by art organization operating budget category)
Outstanding Exhibition or Installation (awarded by art organization operating budget category)
Outstanding Article or Essay (digital or print)
Outstanding Digital Publication
The nomination portal for 2019 Awards is closed.
Important Dates
We are currently accepting nominations for the 2019 Awards.
The final deadline for nominations is 12pm ET on December 14, 2018. Please note this deadline is firm.
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