AACG Awardees
The AACG Annual Award
Each year the AACG may select an organization to be honored for its contributions to the contemporary glass movement. This organization is usually invited to present a program during our virtual awards presentation. Past awardees are:
- 2023: Fort Wayne Museum of Art
- 2022: Firebird Community Arts
- 2021: GlassRoots
- 2020: No award presented (COVID)
- 2019: New Glass Now exhibition at the Corning Museum of Glass
- 2018: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art for its Kotler-Coville Pavilion
- 2017: The Museum of American Glass at WheatonArts
- 2016: Pilchuck Glass School
- 2015: Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass
- 2014: The Knoxville Museum of Art
- 2013: Chrysler Museum of Art
- 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 honored at the annual AACG membership event at SOFA Chicago. Past honorees are:
2023
- Lani McGregor & Dan Schwoerer of Bullseye Glass
- Bob Roberts, Michael Heller, Doug Heller, and Katya Heller of Heller Gallery
- Duncan McClellan of Duncan McClellan Gallery and DMG School Project
2022
- William Traver
2021
- Tim Tate
2020
No awards presented (COVID)
2019
- Joey Kirkpatrick
- Flora Mace
- Ginny Ruffner
2018
- Carol Camiener
2017
- Fritz Dreisbach
- Stan Epstein
- Henry Wasserstein
2016
- Laura Donefer
2015
- Mary and Blair (posthumously) Corkran, collectors
- E. Marie McKee, past president of the Corning Museum of Glass
2014
- Jutta-Annette Page, curator of glass and of decorative arts, Toledo Museum of Art
2013
- Bruce and Ann Bachmann (posthumously), collectors
- Lino Tagliapietra, artist
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 (posthumous)
- Gloria Kamm
- Sonny Kamm
- Elmerina Parkman
- Paul Parkman
- Bobbi Raphael (posthumous)|
- Jerry Raphael (posthumous)
- Dorothy Saxe
- George Saxe (posthumous)
- Hilbert Sosin (posthumous)
- Jean Sosin (posthumous)
- 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
