Artists awarded the medal in previous years include Ellsworth Kelly (2012), Frank Stella (2009) and Helen Frankenthaler (2001).
Pedro Reyes is among a number of
artists awarded a Medal for the Arts in 2015, by the US State Department.
Not exact matches
The Caldecott
medal is
awarded annually to the
artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children, with Honor books considered to be similarly distinguished runners - up.
Kadir Nelson is an acclaimed
artist and the illustrator of several New York Times bestselling picture books, including his authorial debut We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, which won a Coretta Scott King
Award and a Sibert
Medal.
The Randolph Caldecott
Medal is
awarded annually, to the
artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
State Dept. Hails
Artists Jan. 21: The Medal of Arts is awarded to seven artists including Mark Bradford, Sam Gilliam, Julie Mehretu, Kehinde Wiley, Xu Bing, Maya Lin, and Pedro Reyes, at U.S. Department of State for their contrib
Artists Jan. 21: The
Medal of Arts is
awarded to seven
artists including Mark Bradford, Sam Gilliam, Julie Mehretu, Kehinde Wiley, Xu Bing, Maya Lin, and Pedro Reyes, at U.S. Department of State for their contrib
artists including Mark Bradford, Sam Gilliam, Julie Mehretu, Kehinde Wiley, Xu Bing, Maya Lin, and Pedro Reyes, at U.S. Department of State for their contributions.
Following this he studied under the
artist David Bomberg, during which period he developed a friendship with fellow student Leon Kossoff, before going to St Martin's School of Art from 1948 - 52, and the Royal College of Art from 1952 - 55, where he was
awarded a Silver
Medal and First Class Honours.
Schapiro has received many honors and
awards, including The National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Ford Foundation Grant, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Skowhegan
Medal for Collage and the Rockefeller Foundation Grant for
Artist's Residency at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Italy.
The first gold
medal awarded by the Harmon Foundation, an early supporter of African American
artists, went to Hayden in 1926.
The
Medal of Arts
award was initiated by Art in Embassies in 2013 to formally acknowledge
artists who have played an exemplary role in advancing the U.S. Department of State's mission of promoting cultural diplomacy.
AWARD / HONOR The University of Chicago announces recipient of the Jesse L. Rosenberger
Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Creative and Performing Art is
artist Kerry James Marshall, and will be
awarded at its June 11 convocation.
Arts & Humanities
Medals Awarded Feb. 13: President Obama honors recipients of 2011 National
Medal of the Art & National
Medal of Humanities, including
artist Martin Puryear.
AWARD / HONOR > The MacDowell Colony, the nation's first
artist residency program
awards its 2014
medal to Los Angeles - based assemblage and installation
artist Betye Saar (at right) on Aug. 10.
Phil has been honored with the highest
awards presented in several different museum shows, including Gold
Medal in oil, Best in Show,
Artist Choice
Award, and the prestigious Goodman
Award for best oil painting in the show.
Arts & Humanities
Medals Awarded Sept. 22: President Obama
awards the 2015 National
Medal of Arts (video) to
artists Ralph Lemon and Jack Whitten, among other recipients.
Most recently the
Artists» Fellowship
awarded Knox Martin the Benjamin West Clinedinst Memorial
Medal, «for the achievement of exceptional artistic merit.»
In 2011, Johns became the first
artist since 1978 to be
awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom.
In 2013, he received the country's highest
award for
artists, the National
Medal of Arts, presented by President Obama.
In addition to participating in an international array of group exhibitions including the Venice Biennale (1997, 1980, 1976), the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial (1995, 1977), and Documenta, Kassel, Germany (1972), Martin has been the recipient of multiple honors including the Lifetime Achievement
Award on behalf of the Women's Caucus for Art of the College Art Association (2005); the Governor's
Award for Excellence and Achievement in the Arts given by Governor Gary Johnson, Santa Fe, New Mexico (1998); the National
Medal of Arts
awarded by President Clinton and the National Endowment for the Arts (1998); the Distinguished
Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement by the College Art Association (1998); the Golden Lion for Contribution to Contemporary Art at the Venice Biennale (1997); the Oskar Kokoschka Prize
awarded by the Austrian government (1992); the Alexej von Jawlensky Prize
awarded by the city of Wiesbaden, Germany (1991); and election to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York (1989).
Gold
Medal Awardees Dorothy Driehaus Mellin Fellowship for Midwestern
Artists Award Winners
The juror of selection and
awards this year is renowned watercolor
artist Kathleen Conover, who will select the winners of the Gold
Medal ($ 1,200 prize), Silver
Medal ($ 900 prize), and Bronze
Medal ($ 600 prize) and 19 other designated
awards worth more than $ 8,000 in cash and sponsored prizes.Throughout the exhibition, visitors will have the opportunity to cast a vote for their favorite painting in order to select the winner of the «People's Choice
Award.»
Among many honors, she recently was
awarded the Benjamin West Clinedinist Memorial
Medal in 2007 from the
Artists» Fellowship, Inc. and Cooper Union's Augustus Saint - Gaudens
Award for professional achievement in art in 2005.
Her many
awards include First Prize for Painting at the first Paris Biennial (1959); Joseph E. Temple Gold
Medal, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia (1968); New York City Mayor's
Award of Honor for Arts and Culture (1986); and Distinguished
Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement, College Art Association (1994).
He has received numerous
awards, including the Skowhegan
Medal for Photography, the National Endowment for the Arts Visual
Artist Fellowship, and the Aaron Siskind Fellowship.
He has exhibited extensively and has won numerous
awards, including Best in Show at the UCJF's Annual Fall for Art Show, 2010 and the National Art League's Annual Exhibit, 2011, the Sanford Grumbacher Gold
Medal, the Alfred and Mary Crimi
Award, and the Guilia Palermo
Award at the Audubon
Artists Exhibit, NY.
He has also received many
awards, his most recent being the Gold
Medal of Honor in Graphics from Audubon
Artists, the Emile and Dines Carlsen
Award from the National Academy of Design, and a Lifetime Achievement
Award from the Alumni Association of the City College of New York.
His work is in the collections of museums worldwide, and he is the recipient of numerous grants and
awards including an
Artists Foundation Grant, a Guggenheim Foundation Grant, a Pollock - Krasner Foundation Grant, and a
Medal of Merit from The American Institute of Arts and Letters.
Participating
artists are eligible to receive one of ten
awards, which include five Arts and Letters Awards, the Jacob Lawrence Award, the Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Award, the Willard L. Metcalf Award, theAward of Merit Medal for Painting, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation
awards, which include five Arts and Letters
Awards, the Jacob Lawrence Award, the Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Award, the Willard L. Metcalf Award, theAward of Merit Medal for Painting, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation
Awards, the Jacob Lawrence
Award, the Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence
Award, the Willard L. Metcalf
Award, theAward of Merit
Medal for Painting, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation
Award.
Participating
artists are eligible to receive one of ten
awards, which include five Arts and Letters Awards, the Jacob Lawrence Award, the Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Award, the Willard L. Metcalf Award, the Award of Merit Medal for Painting, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation
awards, which include five Arts and Letters
Awards, the Jacob Lawrence Award, the Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Award, the Willard L. Metcalf Award, the Award of Merit Medal for Painting, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation
Awards, the Jacob Lawrence
Award, the Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence
Award, the Willard L. Metcalf
Award, the
Award of Merit
Medal for Painting, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation
Award.
When all was said and done, her other greatest
awards included the First Prize for Painting at the first Paris Biennial, Temple Gold
Medal, New York City Mayor's
Award of Honor for Arts and Culture and Distinguished
Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement.
2013 National
Artist Award, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, Colorado Aurora
Award, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, Texas 2011 Arents
Award for Distinguished Alumni, Syracuse University, New York Praemium Imperiale, Japan Art Association, Tokyo 2009 Eugene McDermott
Award in the Arts, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts XXI Catalonia International Prize, government of Catalonia, Barcelona 2006 NORD / LB Art Prize, Bremen Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters, government of France 2003 Cultural Leadership
Award, American Federal of Arts 1993 Skowhegan
Medal (video installation) Medienkunstpreis, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, and Siemens Kulturprogramm 1989 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Award 1987 Maya Deren
Award, American Film Institute 1984 Polaroid Video Art
Award for outstanding achievement
Henry has won numerous
awards, including First Prize in the American Society of Portrait
Artists 2000 competition, the Gold
Medal of Honor at the 2003 Hudson Valley Art Association annual exhibition, and the Best Painting from Life
Award of the National Oil & Acrylic Painters» Society in 2003.
In 2012, AIE initiated the biennial U.S. Department of State -
Medal of Arts
award to formally acknowledge
artists who have played an instrumental role in promoting creativity, collaboration and understanding in support of American diplomacy.
The
artist was
awarded the Smithsonian Archives of American Art
Medal in 2010 and was granted an Honorary Doctorate from the École des Beaux - Arts, Paris in 2014.
The National
Medal of Arts is the highest
award given to
artists and arts patrons by the federal government.
Her numerous honors include four Allied
Artists of America
awards in the categories of Creative Painting and Landscape in their national exhibitions, one First Place and
Medal of Honor
Award in the Audubon
Artists Annual exhibition, the Grumbacher
Award by the American Association of Women
Artists, several
awards of the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club National Exhibitions and numerous
awards including two Solo
Award Exhibitions at the Pen and Brush Club, New York, NY, most recently in 2000.
The very first
award she has received in a competition was the Silver
Medal of Honor for her oil painting titled «Profile» from the Allied
Artists of America in 1977.
Awards: The Salmagundi Club
Award for Pastel, Allied
Artists of America 1998 Dale Meyers Cooper
Medal for Watercolor, Allied
Artists of America 1999 The Adolph and Clara Obrig Prize for Watercolor, NAD 2002 Robert E. Wood Memorial
Award, Watercolor USA 2000 NAC Exhibitions Committee
Award 2001 Springfield Art Museum Cash
Award, Watercolor USA 2002
He is also a member of Allied
Artists of America where he received the Joe & Emily Lowe
Award in 1994 as well as the Allied
Artists Gold
Medal of Honor in 1997.
He has received
awards including Allied
Artists of America Gold
Medal, 1998; The Florence & Ernest Thorne Thompson Memorial
Award, 1999; Audubon
Artists Silver
Medal, 2001; The Art Students League Purchase
Award, 1998 & 1999; 80 Washington Square East Galleries Small works Juror
Award, 2002.
PSWC
Award - Marin Society of
Artists Gallery - Ross, CA 2013 Levy DeMedici
Award (CPS Pastel Exhibition) Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT 2012 First Prize for Pastel (CLWAC Member Show, Salmagundi Club, NYC) 2011 CPS
Award (Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT) 2011 Blick Art
Award (PSA International, National Arts Club, NYC) 2011 PSA Founder's
Award (National Arts Club, NYC) 2010 Audubon
Artists Gold
Medal Award (Salmagundi Club, NYC) 2010 Jane Impastato
Award for Artistic Excellence (Salmagundi Club, NYC) 2010 Richard McKinley
Award (Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA - PSWC) 2009 Art du Pastel en France
Award (Giverny, France) 2009 Connecticut Pastel Society
Award (Allied
Artists of America National Arts Club, NYC) 2008 Pastel Society of America
Award (CPS Slater Museum, Norwich, CT) 2006 Great American Artworks
Award (PPCC - Harwich, MA) 2006 Board of Directors
Award (Slater Museum, Norwich, CT) 2004 Artistic Excellence in Oil
Award (Museum of Contemporary Masters, San Antonio, TX) 2004 Degas Society
Award (Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA) 2004 Art du Pastel En France
Award (Vernon, France) 2003 President's
Award (75 th Grand National, AAPL, NYC) 2003 AAPL
Award (Hudson Valley A.A., NYC) 2002 Audubon
Artists Gold
Medal of Honor (Salmagundi Club, NYC) 2001
The exhibiting
artists are eligible to receive one of ten
awards from the Academy, including five Arts and Letters Awards, the Jacob Lawrence Award, the Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Award, the Willard L. Metcalf Award, the Award of Merit Medal for Painting, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation
awards from the Academy, including five Arts and Letters
Awards, the Jacob Lawrence Award, the Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Award, the Willard L. Metcalf Award, the Award of Merit Medal for Painting, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation
Awards, the Jacob Lawrence
Award, the Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence
Award, the Willard L. Metcalf
Award, the
Award of Merit
Medal for Painting, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation
Award.
Gund received the National
Medal of Arts from President Bill Clinton in 1997, the highest
award given to
artists and arts patrons by the United States government.
Staloff is a member of the Audubon
Artists where he won the William Myerowitz
Award in 1991, the Elaine & James Hewitt in 1994, the Michael M. Engel
Award in 1995, the Stefan Hirsch Memorial
Award in 1997 and the Ralph Fabri
Medal in 2000.
A partial list of
awards include The Julius Hallgarten
Award at The National Academy of Design, 1975, Allied
Artists of America Gold
Medal, 1975, 1984,1991, 2006,2007 and 2010; Audubon
Artists Gold
Medal, 1998, The National Arts Club First Prize, 1997, The Butler Institute of America Art National Mid-Year First Place
Award, 2002, Presidents
Award, The Salmagundi Club, Audubon
Artists Silver
Medal, 2002, The Butler Institute of American Art Lifetime Achievement
Medal, 2003; Salmagundi Club
Medal of Honor, 2007, National Museum of Sport Gold
Medal 2010 amongst others.
Among
Awards: Gold, Silver and Bronze
Medals for Oil Painting Jane Paterson
Award for a Portrait; Allied
Artists of America Bruce Stevenson
Award for a Portrait, (3 times) The National Arts Club Blanche Farr
Award, George Haight
Award, Thora M. Jensen
Award for Portraits in Oil; Hudson Valley Art Association Charles Noel Flagg
Award for a Portrait; Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts Lever
Award; Pastel Society of America
Award of Merit: Salmagundi Club
Medal of Merit, George Laurence Nelson
Award; Gordon C. Aymar
Award Frances B. Townley
Award for Portraits in Oil;
Award for Best in Show
Awards for Best Oil Painting; Kent Art Association Merit
Award, New Haven Paint and Clay Club
Her many
awards include an Honorable Mention at The Butler Institute of American Art Midyear Exhibition, The John Spiegel Memorial
Award from the American
Artists Professional League, The Marguerite Sinaly Memorial
Award from the Salmagundi Club, The Len G. Everett Memorial
Award from Audubon
Artists and the Anna Hyatt Huntington Bronze
Medal Award for Oil from Catherine Lorillard Wolfe.
She was
awarded The Silver
Medal of Honor and Len G. Everett Memorial
Award from Allied
Artists and Jacqueline Fox and Augie Napoli
Awards from Salmagundi.
AWARD / HONOR
Artist Kara Walker is honored with a W.E.B. Du Bois
Medal from Harvard University's Hutchins Center for African & African American Research on Oct. 4.
RELATED ARTS ACTIVITIES Co-Organizer, Onaman Collective (2014 — present) Project Creator / Lead Coordinator, Walking With Our Sisters Touring Exhibit (2012 on - going to 2020) Keynote Address, Indigenous
Artists» Symposium: Activism & Education Through the Arts by Sâkêwêwak and the First Nations University of Canada Plains Red Gallery, Regina, SK (Feb 2016) Keynote Address, Education Through Reconciliation Through Education by First Nations, Métis, & Inuit Education Association of Ontario, Brampton, ON (May 2016) Collaboration with The House of Valentino, Milan, Italy (2015) Designer, 2015 Pan Am Parapan Am Game
Medals Guest Lecturer, Shingwauk Ginoomagegamig, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, ON (2014) Guest Lecturer, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts & Institute of American Indian Arts, Sante Fe, NM (2013) Lead Organizer, Community Art Collaborative Piece, Seventh Generation Midwives, Toronto, ON (2012) Jury Member, Ontario Arts Council, Aboriginal Arts
Awards, Toronto, Ontario (2012) Jury Member, Ontario Arts Council, Visual Arts / Established
Artist Program, Toronto, Ontario (2011) Guest Lecturer, Snelgrove Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Arts Department, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (2010) Guest Exhibit / Presenter, New Sun Symposium, Ottawa, Ontario (2010) Jury Member, Ontario Arts Council, Northern Arts Program, Toronto, Ontario (2009) Project Creator, Artistic Co-Director & Jury Member, Willisville Mountain Project, Willisville, Ontario (2008) Jury Member, Ontario Arts Council, Visual Arts Program, Toronto, Ontario (2008) Jury Member, Canada Council for the Arts, Aboriginal Peoples Collaborative Exchange Program, Ottawa, Ontario (2008) Jury Member, Ontario Arts Council, Chalmers
Awards, Toronto, Ontario (2006)