Other competitive award categories include traveling thematic show, architecture and design show, historical show, and commercial gallery exhibition. (magazine.art21.org)
A primary source of FCA's funding is the sale of work donated by artists and exhibited on occasion in thematic shows, the first of which was held at Allan Stone Gallery in New York in» 63. (artnews.com)
In 2008, the exhibition The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection at the Blanton Museum of Art (it subsequently travelled to the Grey Art Gallery at NYU) was awarded Best Thematic Show Nationally by the AICA - USA. (coleccioncisneros.org)