Persons prominent in the arts and disabilities fields will nominate candidates, select winners and allocate all awards.

Awards will be made in December of each year.



2023 SELECTION COMMITTEE

Nicole Agois Hurel - Arts Educator & Disability Advocate, Boston, MA

Dorothea Basile - Arts Advocate & Historian, New York, NY

Jerome Ellis - Artist, Norfolk, VA

Kate Holohan - Curator & Educator, Syracuse University Art Museum

 

 

2022 SELECTION COMMITTEE

Christine Sun Kim - Artist, Berlin, Germany

danilo machado - Curator, Brooklyn Museum

Em Kettner - Artist, California

Melissa Yuen - Curator, Syracuse University Art Museum

 

 

2021 SELECTION COMMITTEE

Daniel Fuller - Independent Curator, Georgia

Michelle Miles - Multimedia Artist, Viginia

Leroy Moore - Artist, Activist, Poet, California

Tom Shannon - Visual Artist, New York

 

 

2020 SELECTION COMMITTEE

Jay Gorney - Independent Curator and Advisor, New York

Yoyo Lin - Interdisciplinary Media Artist, New York

Vanja Malloy - Syracuse Gallery Director, New York

Arne Svenson - Photographer, Visual Artist, New York

 

 

2019 SELECTION COMMITTEE

Kathleen Goncharov - Senior Curator, Boca Raton Museum of Art

D J Hellerman - Everson Museum curator

Julie Saul - Julie Saul Gallery, New York

Sandie Yi - Visual Artist, Chicago

 

 

2018 SELECTION COMMITTEE

Sara Felice - Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse, NY

Carrie Moyer - Artist, faculty Hunter College, NYC

Jane Kaplowicz Rosenblum - Artist, NYC

Alice Sheppard - Visual Artist, Choreographer, Dancer, Los Altos, CA

 

 

2017 SELECTION COMMITTEE

Eve Biddle - Curator and Executive Director, Wassaic Project, NY

Dustin Grella - Artist, Animator, and 2016 Award Recipient

Shane Lavalette - Director, Light Work, Syracuse

Valerie Rousseau - Curator, American Folk Art Museum, NYC



2016 SELECTION COMMITTEE

Emily Dittman - Exhibitions and Collections Manager, Syracuse University Museum

Carolyn Lazard - Artist, 2015 Award Recipient

Barbara London - Curator

Frank Maresca - Partner, Ricco/Maresca Gallery




2015 SELECTION COMMITTEE

Matthew Higgs - Director, White Columns Gallery

Park McArthur - Artist, 2014 Award Recipient

Catherine Morris - Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center
for Feminist Art

Andrew Saluti - Assistant Director, Syracuse University Museum




2014 SELECTION COMMITTEE

Gavin Brown - Gavin Brown's Enterprise

Mia Locks - Curator, MOMA PS1

Nancy Rosen - Arts Consultant

Rusty Shackelford - Artist, 2013 Award Recipient




2013 SELECTION COMMITTEE

Alexander Bacon, PhD - critic Brooklyn Rail

Suzanne Kreps - Manager, OK Harris Gallery

Sarah Suzuki - MoMA Associate Curator

Laura Swanson - Artist, 2012 Award Recipient




2012 SELECTION COMMITTEE

J. David Farmer - Director, Dahesh Museum

Mark Parsons - Artist, Faculty Pratt Institute, 2011 Award Recipient

Kathryn Price - Curator, Williams College Museum of Art

Ealan Wingate - Director, Gagosian Gallery, NYC




2011 SELECTION COMMITTEE

Jeffrey Hoone - Curator, Syracuse University Art Museums,
Director - Light Work Gallery

Barbara Novak - Art historian, Artist

Brian O'Doherty - Artist, critic

Thomas Shannon - Sculptor, 2010 Award Recipient

Ursula Von Rydingsvard - Sculptor




2010 SELECTION COMMITTEE

Kristen Hileman - Curator, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD

Thomas Kovachevich - Artist, 2009 Award Recipient

Charles Riley - Author, Critic, CCNY/Baruch

Peter Plagens - Artist, Critic




2009 SELECTION COMMITTEE

Barbara Bloom - Artist, 2008 Award Recipient

Frank Del Deo - Curator, Knoedler Gallery, NYC

Rita Freed - Curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Isabella Kirkland - Artist, Sausalito, CA

Wynn Newhouse - Collector, NYC




2008 SELECTION COMMITTEE

Phong Bui - Publisher, Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn

Chuck Close - Artist

Donna DeSalvo - Curator, Whitney Museum, NYC

Joseph Grigely - Artist, 2007 Award Recipient

Wynn Newhouse - Collector, NYC



2007 SELECTION COMMITTEE

Riva Lehrer - Artist, 2006 Award Recipient

Stephanie Moore - VSA Arts, Washington DC

Mark Rosenthal - Independent Curator, NYC

Patterson Sims - Director, Montclair Museum, New Jersey

Wynn Newhouse - Collector, NYC



2006 SELECTION COMMITTEE

Cheryl Brutvan - Curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Bill Newman - Artist, Washington DC

Olivia Raynor - National Arts and Disability Center, Los Angeles

Dorothea Rockburne - Artist

Wynn Newhouse - Collector, NYC