ATLANTA, GA.- The CAA (The College Art Association) announced the list of recipients for their annual Awards for Distinctions that recognize outstanding artists, teachers, scholars, and critics. The 2005 Awards for Distinction will be presented at the opening night convocation for CAA’s Annual Conference, which will be held in Atlanta from February 16-19, 2005.

Writing and criticism: Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize to Sheila Barker for the article “Poussin, Plague, and Early Modern Medicine”; Art Journal Award to Nato Thompson for the article “Strategic Visuality: A Project by Four Artist/Reseachers”; Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism to Garth Clarke; Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art to Andre Grabar.

Book publishing: Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award to Helen C. Evans, ed. for Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557); Charles Rufus Morey Book Award to Sarah Burns for Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America.

Scholarship and conservation: College Art Association/Heritage Preservation Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation, Paolo Cherci Usai.

Teaching: Distinguished Teaching of Art Award, Lloyd Menard; Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award, David Wilkins.

Artistic Practice: Distinguished Body of Work Award, Joan Jonas; Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement, Nancy Spero.

Past recipients include Vernon Fisher, Robert Blackburn, Roberta Smith, Peter Halley, Carol Herselle Krinsky among many others.

About the Conference: The Annual Conference, which constitutes the world’s largest meeting for professionals in the visual arts, consists of a series of events that are accessible both to members and non—members. The central components of the conference are a job fair for scholars and a book and trade fair that gathers professionals from all over the country. During the conference, a wide range of special events and activities are organized by CAA and by the many institutions in the host city. More than 18,000 individuals from the visual arts field attended the last conference in Seattle.

About CAA: A professional service organization founded in 1911, the College Art Association is dedicated to supporting its diverse membership of visual arts, art history and teaching professionals. It is committed to the highest professional and ethical standards of scholarship, creativity, connoisseurship, criticism and teaching. By providing forums to discuss the latest developments in visual arts and art education through its annual conference, publications, website, and the events that it sponsors, CAA has been an advocate and a resource for individuals and institutions in these fields for more than a century.