SECAC Awards

The SECAC Award for Outstanding Exhibition and Catalogue of Contemporary Materials

The SECAC First Vice President and Chair of the Awards Committee is Jason Guynes who invites nominations and self-nominations for this award to be presented at the annual meeting.

A letter should follow initial nominations explaining the nomination and accompanied by evaluation materials to enable the committee members to reach their decision (such materials may be furnished by either the nominator or the nominee).

Nominations can be mailed to Jason Guynes, Visual Arts Department, University of South Alabama, VAB 168, Mobile, AL, 36688. Deadline: February 1, 2012 (postmark). Nominators will be notified of results on or about August 15, 2012. For questions, contact jguynes@usouthal.edu.

Past Recipients

  1. 2011 – Wichita Museum of Art, Michael Aurbach: The Secrecy Series: Selected Works. Essay by Dorothy Joiner.
  2. 2010 – Paul Goldberger and Robert M. Craig, John Portman: Art and Architecture, 2009.  High Museum of Art; University of Georgia Press, 2009
  3. 2009 – University of Georgia, and editors Isabelle Wallace and Nora Wendl, Contemporary Art at the Dodd:  Paul Pfeiffer
  4. 2008 – Kevin Concannon, Yoko Ono: Imagine Peace Featuring John and Yoko's Year of Peace
  5. 2008 – Joseph Mella, Carlos Jauregui and Edward Fishers (editors), Of Rage and Redemption: The Art of Oswadso Guayasamín
  6. 2007 – Dennis Harper and Paul Manoguerra, Weaving His Art on Golden Looms: Paintings and Drawings by Art Rosenbaum, Georgia Museum of Art, 2007, William U. Eiland, Director
  7. 2006 – Sam Yates & Fred Moffat (with design by Martha C. Shepp), Mysterious Pleasures: The Art of F. Clark Stewart
  8. 2005 – Reni Gower, Sally Bowring & Heather M. Harvey, Virginia Commonwealth University
  9. 2004 – Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston
  10. 2003 – Reni Gower & Heather Harvey, Virginia Commonwealth University