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Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass Award History
The AACG Annual Award
Each year the AACG selects an organization to be honored for its contributions
to the contemporary glass movement. This organization receives an unrestricted
grant from the Alliance, and is invited to present a public program at
SOFA Chicago in conjunction with the AACG Annual Meeting. The Honorees
have been:- 2010: Museum of Art and Design (To be presented at SOFA Chicago on Saturday, November 6)
- 2009: Corning Museum of Glass
- 2008: Museum of Glass, Tacoma.
- 2007: The National Liberty Museum
- 2006: The Glass Program of the University of Miami
- 2005: The Museum of American Glass at Wheaton Arts and Cultural
Center
- 2004: Corning Museum's Mobile Hot Shop
- 2003: Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
- 2002: Mint Museum of Craft + Design
- 2001: Creative Glass Center of America (at Wheaton Arts and Cultural
Center, Millville NJ)
- 2000: Glass Program of California College of the Arts (formerly
California College of Arts and Crafts)
- 1999: The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass
- 1998: Glass Program of University of Illinois
- 1997: Bullseye Connection
- 1996: Glass Art Society
- 1995: Pilchuck Glass School
- 1994: Urban Glass
- 1994: Urban Glass
- 1992: Penland School of Arts and Crafts
- 1991: Rhode Island School of Design
Yoichi Ohira AACG Honors
In 2001, the AACG began a new program of recognizing individuals of
outstanding accomplishment in the field of contemporary glass art. Honorees
may be artists, collectors, curators, critics, teachers, authors, gallery
owners and directors,and any others whose contributions have been significant
and important in the field. Recipients are introduced at the AACG Annual
Meeting at SOFA-Chicago. These awards have been given to:
- 2010 (To be presented at SOFA Chicago on Saturday, November 6)
- Richard Jolley and Tommie Rush, artists
- Jon Liebman, collector and retiring ContempGlass webmaster
- 2009
- Dudley and Lisa Anderson, collectors and philanthropists
- Dan Klein (posthumous), author, critic, commentator, auctioneer, gallerist
- Adele and Leonard Leight, collectors and philanthropists
- 2008
- Simona and Jerome Chazen, collectors
- Bonnie Marx and Ken Saunders, gallerists
- 2007
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the founding of AACG, to the founders of the organization:
- Madeline Baer (posthumous)
- Wally Baer (posthumous)
- Mike Belkin
- Irvin Borowsky
- Gloria Kamm
- Sonny Kamm
- Elmerina Parkman
- Paul Parkman
- Bobbi Raphael (posthumous)
- Jerry Raphael (posthumous)
- Dorothy Saxe
- George Saxe
- Hilbert Sosin (posthumous)
- Jean Sosin
- Paul Stankard
- Laurie Wagman
- 2006
- Richard Marquis, Artist
- Natalie and Ben Heineman, Collectors
- 2005
- Marvin Lipofsky, Artist
- William Warmus, Critic, Curator
- 2004
- Tina Oldknow, Curator
- Myrna and Sheldon Palley, Collectors
- Mark Peiser, Artist.
- 2003
- Ferdinand Hampson and Doug Heller (joint award), Gallerists
- Jack Pelisek (posthumous), Collector
- Paul Stankard, Artist
- 2002
- George and Dorothy Saxe, Collectors
- Joel Philip Myers, Artist
- 2001:
- Harvey Littleton, Artist
- Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová, Artists
- Hilbert (posthumous) and Jean Sosin, Collectors
last update on 15 august 2010
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