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PAST LIFETIME AWARDS HONOREES

These awards recognize the contributions made by women who have distinguished themselves by their activism and commitment to the women's movement and the arts. Selections for the Annual Honor Awards for Lifetime Achievement are among the most important actions the WCA takes to increase the recognition of women's contributions in the visual arts.
Note: More catalogues will be added in near future.

Chicago 2010
Tritobia Hayes Benjamin
Mary Jane Jacob
Senga Nengudi
Joyce J. Scott
Spiderwoman Theater
(Lisa Mayo, Gloria Miguel,
Muriel Miguel)
President's Award
Juane Guzman
Karen Reimer

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Los Angeles 2009
Maren Hassinger
Ester Hernandez
Joyce Kozloff
Margo Machida
Ruth Weisberg
President's Award
Catherine Opie
Susan Fisher Sterling

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Photos of the event at:
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Photographer: Amy Tierney

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Dallas 2008
Ida Applebroog
Joanna Frueh
Nancy Grossman
Leslie King-Hammond
Yolanda López
Lowery Stokes Sims
President's Award
Santa Barraza
Joan Davidow
Tey Marianna Nunn

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New York 2007
Awards for Women in the Arts
co-hosted wit the CAA Committee on Women in the Arts:
Ferris Olin
Judith K. Brodsky
Barbara Chase-Riboud
Wanda Corn
Buffie Johnson
Lucy R. Lippard
Elizabeth Murray
President's Award
Connie Butler

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Boston 2006
Eleanor Antin
Marisol Escobar
Elinor Gadon
Yayoi Kusama
President's Award
Maura Reilly

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Atlanta 2005
Bette Blayton-Taylor
Rosalynn Carter
Mary D. Garrard
Agnes Martin
Yoko Ono
Ann Sutherland Harris
President's Award
Andrea Barnwell

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Seattle 2004
Emma Amos
Jo Baer
Michi Itami
Helen Levitt
Yvonne Rainer
President's Awards
Elizabeth A. Sackler
Tara Donovan

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New York 2003
Eleanor Dickinson
Suzi Gablik
Grace Glueck
Ronne Hartfield
Eleanor Munro
Nancy Spero

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Philadelphia 2002
Camille Billops
Judith K. Brodsky
Muriel Magenta
Linda Nochlin
Marilyn J. Stokstad
President's Award
Barbara Wolanin

Chicago 2001
Joyce Aiken
Marie Johnson Calloway
Dorothy Gillespie
Thalia Gouma-Peterson
Wilhemina Holladay
Ellen Lanyon
Ruth Waddy

Los Angeles 1999
Judy Baca
Judy Chicago
Linda Frye Burnham
Evangeline K. Montgomery
Arlene Raven
Barbara T. Smith

Philadelphia 1997
Jo Hanson
Sadie Krauss Kriebel
Jaune Quick-To-See Smith
Moira Roth
Kay Sekimachi
President's Award
Tee Corinne
Ofelia Garcia

Boston 1996
Bernice Bing
Alicia Craig Faxon
Elsa Honig Fine
Howardena Pindell
Marianna Pineda
Kay WalkingStick

San Antonio 1995
Irene Clark
Jacqueline Clipsham
Alessandra Comini
Jean Lacy
Amalia Mesa-Bains
Celia Alvarez Muñoz

New York City 1994
Mary Adams
Maria Enriquez de Allen
Beverly Pepper
Faith Ringgold
Rachel Rosenthal
Charlotte Streifer Rubenstein

Seattle 1993
Ruth Asawa
Shifra M. Goldman
Nancy Graves
Gwen Knight
Agueda Salazar Martinez
Emily Waheneka

Chicago 1992
Vera Berdich
Paula Gerard
Lucy Lewis
Louise Noun
Margaret Tafoya
Anna Tate

Washington DC 1991
Theresa Bernstein
Mildred Constantine
Otellie Loloma
Mine Okubo
Delilah Pierce

New York City 1990
Ilse Bing
Elizabeth Layton
Helen Serger May Stevens
Pablita Velarde

San Francisco 1989
Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Margret Craver
Clare Leighton
Betye Saar
Samella Sanders Lewis

Houston 1988
Margaret Burroughs
Dorothy Hood
Miriam Schapiro
Edith Standen
Jane Teller

Boston 1987
Grace Hartigan
Agnes Mongan
Maud Morgan
Honoré Sharrer
Elizabeth Talford Scott
Beatrice Wood
President's Award
Patricia Hills

New York City 1986
Nell Blaine
Leonora Carrington
Sue Fuller
Lois Mailou Jones
Dorothy Miller
President's Awards
Barbara Morgan

Los Angeles 1985/
Toronto 1984

Minna Citron
Clyde Connell
Eleanor Raymond
Joyce Treiman
June Wayne
Rachel Wischnitzer

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Philadelphia 1983
Edna Andrade
Dorothy Dehner
Lotte Jacobi
Ellen Johnson
Stella Kramrisch
Lenore Tawney
Pecolia Warner

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New York City 1982
Bernice Abbott
Elsie Driggs
Elizabeth Gilmore Holt
Katharine Kuh
Charmion von Wiegand
Claire Zeisler

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San Francisco 1981
Ruth Bernhard
Adelyn Breeskin
Elizabeth Catlett
Sari Dienes
Claire Falkenstein
Helen Lundeberg

Washington DC
1980 Alternate Awards
Bella Abzug
Sonia Johnson
Sister Theresa Kane
Grace Paley
Rosa Parks
Gloria Steinem

New Orleans 1980
Anni Albers
Louise Bourgeois
Carolyn Durieux
Ida Kohlmeyer
Lee Krasner

Washington D.C. 1979
Isabel Bishop
Selma Burke
Alice Neel
Louise Nevelson
Georgia O'Keeffe

 

 

   

Although there were no Lifetime Achievement Awards given out in those years, Presidents Awards were given to: Charlene Touchette in Toronto 1998, and Bernice Steinbaum in New York 2000