SECAC Awards

The SECAC Award for Outstanding Exhibition and Catalogue of Historical 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 – University Art Galleries at the State University of New Mexico, Modern Design/Folk Art, Essay by Preston Thayer
  2. 2011 – Curtis R. Harley Art Gallery at the University of South Carolina Upstate, Andy Warhol: University of South Carolina Upstate collection: gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation, Essays by Catherine Zuromskis, Rachel Snow, and Heather Shockey
  3. 2011 – Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, Weatherspoon Art Museum: 70 Years of Collecting, Essay by Nancy M. Doll
  4. 2010 – Elizabeth Meredith Dowling; Lisa M Thomason; Georgia Institute of Technology, One Hundred Years of Architectural Education, 1908-2008, Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Tech College of Architecture, ©2009
  5. 2009 – The Georgia Museum of Art and author Paul Manoguerra, The American Scene on Paper:  Prints and Drawings from the Schoen Collectioner
  6. 2008 – Betsy Fahlman, Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth's Late Pantings of Lancaster
  7. 2007 – Ashley Callahan, Modern Threads: Fashion and Art by Mariska Karasz. Georgia Museum of Art, 2007, William U. Eiland, Director
  8. 2006 – Erika Lee Doss, editor of Coming Home: American Paintings from Schoen Collection
  9. 2006 – Donald Schrader & Preston Thayer, Radford University Art Museum, for An Expanding Universe: Makers and Viewers of 17C Prints
  10. 2004 – Roberta Smith Favis, Stetson University
  11. 2000 – Cheekwood Museum of Art
  12. 1999 – William Eiland, Georgia Museum of Art
  13. 1997 – James P.W. Thompson, Western Carolina University
  14. 1996 – Pamela Simpson, Washington and Lee University