Annual
Report
(2003)
ARLIS/NA Wittenborn Award Committee
March
1, 2004
The
2003 Wittenborn Award Committee members were: Faith Pleasanton (Neue Galerie and
the Department of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum), Ken Soehner (Watson Library,
Metropolitan Museum), Eileen Markson (Bryn Mawr College Library) and Kraig
Binkowski (Delaware Art Museum Library), Chair. Robert Kaufmann (Watson Library,
Metropolitan Museum) was forced to withdraw due to health reasons.
There
was no budget for the FY 2003
The
Committee met in July 2003 for a brief meeting to discuss the timetable and to
divide tasks. The Call for Submissions (in English, French and Spanish) was
mailed from Headquarters during the first week of October and was received by
over 300 publishers. The Call for Submissions was posted to ARLIS-L, Museum-L, and
list-servs for the Association of American University Presses as well as the
Association of American Publishers, Inc.
An
Access Database of publishers in the United States, Canada and Mexico was
created to facilitate the mailing of the call for submissions. (Access database
created from an existing Word Document)
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submissions were submitted to the Committee. 2 submissions were disqualified
because they did not meet the submission requirements (one was not published,
authored, or edited in North America, and one was submitted nearly 1 month past
the deadline).
The
Committee met twice in January and selected one winner with one honorable
mention:
Winner:
A Private Passion:
19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection,
Harvard University*
Honorable
Mention:
*The
award winners are to remain confidential until presented at the conference
convocation.
The
Chair has contacted both the winning editor and publisher. The committee
continues its work on publicity for the award by writing a press release for
dissemination by Headquarters and by preparing a PowerPoint presentation for the
award ceremony. An interview with the winning editor (and exhibition curator)
will appear in a subsequent issue of Art Documentation.
Submitted
by: Kraig A. Binkowski, Chair
Delaware
Art Museum
800
S. Madison
Wilmington,
DE 19801