The Art Libraries Society of North America is pleased to announce the winners of our annual awards. Announced last week at the annual conference in Mexico City, these awards recognize the exceptional work of art information professionals within and without the society.
The George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award recognizes exemplary art publications and was given to The Portable Universe / El Universo en tus Manos: Thought and Splendor of Indigenous Colombia.
The Melva J. Dwyer Award recognizes exceptional reference or research tools in Canadian art and architecture and was awarded to Qummut Qukiria! Art, Culture, and Sovereignty Across Inuit Nunaat and Sápmi: Mobilizing the Circumpolar North.
The ARLIS/NA Worldwide Books Awards recognize outstanding work produced by ARLIS/NA Members. This year the recipients were Dana Satton Thompson for Visual Literacy Today and Courtney Stine for her article "‘Don't Use It' to ‘Let's Edit!': Using Wikipedia to Teach the ARLIS/NA Art, Architecture, and Design Information Competencies"
The ARLIS/NA Applauds Award was given to Meredith Hale in recognition of her work on migrating organizational content to the Humanities Commons, and especially her efforts towards making ARLIS/NA video archives accessible through captioning work on the society's Kaltura channel.
The Conference Travel Award recipients were Eboni Jones-Stewart, Caroline Meyers, Mitra Fakhrashrafi, Mackenzie Williams, and Isamar Abreu.
The 2023 Student Advancement Awards were granted to Melissa Also de la Torre for her paper "In the ‘Daddy Tank': Visual Activism, Performance, and Archive of Butchlalis de Panochtitlan" and Linda Woodland to support her internship at the Harvard Art Museums Archives.
And finally the ARLIS/NA Distinguished Service Award was given this year to Dr. Marilyn Russell. This is the society's highest honor and it recognizes exemplary service in art librarianship, visual resources curatorship, or related fields.
About the Art Libraries Society of North America
Founded in 1972, the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) is a dynamic, international organization of close to 1,000 individuals devoted to fostering excellence in art and design librarianship and image management in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The membership includes architecture and art librarians, visual resources professionals, artists, curators, educators, publishers, students, and others interested in visual arts information. To serve this diverse constituency, the Society provides a wide range of programs and services within an organizational structure that encourages participation at every level.