AACG Awardees
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 usually invited to present a public program at SOFA Chicago in conjunction with the AACG Annual Meeting. The Honorees are:
- 2012: Toledo Museum of Art
- 2011: deYoung Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
- 2010: Museum of Arts and Design
- 2009: Corning Museum of Glass
- 2008: Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington
- 2007: National Liberty Museum
- 2006: Glass Program, University of Miami
- 2005: Museum of American Glass, Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center
- 2004: Corning Museum of Glass, Hot Glass Roadshow
- 2003: Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum
- 2002: Mint Museum of Craft + Design
- 2001: Creative Glass Center of America, Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center
- 2000: Glass Program, California College of the Arts and Crafts
- 1999: The Studio, Corning Museum of Glass
- 1998: Glass Program, University of Illinois
- 1997: Bullseye Connection
- 1996: Glass Art Society
- 1995: Pilchuck Glass School
- 1994: NY Experimental Glass Workshop
- 1993: Toledo Museum of Art
- 1992: Penland School of Crafts
- 1991: Rhode Island School of Design
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. Honorees are:
2012
- David Denn, collector and chair of AACG's 50th Anniversary Committee
- Dominick Labino (posthumous), artist
2011
- Dale Chihuly, artist
- Dale and Doug Anderson, collectors
2010
- Richard Jolley and Tommie Rush, artists
- Jon Liebman, collector and retiring ContempGlass webmaster
2009
- Dudley and Lisa Anderson, collectors
- Dan Klein (posthumous), author, critic, commentator, auctioneer, gallerist
- Adele and Leonard Leight, collectors
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
