Awards
The Universities Art Association recognizes excellence through the honours and awards programs which also serve to acknowledge the work of its members.
- Student Essay Award
- Recognition Award
Student Essay Award
Call for submissions | 2020 UAAC-AAUC Conference Graduate Student Essay Award
Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2021
Graduate students who presented papers at the 2020 UAAC/AAUC conference are invited to submit complete versions of their essays, in English or French, for consideration by the UAAC-AAUC Board for the Annual Graduate Student Essay Award. The winning essay will be awarded a $250 prize, and will be published in the spring 2021 issue of RACAR.
The regulations are as follows:
The winning essay will be adjudicated by a committee of three UAAC members appointed by the UAAC-AAUC Board and will be announced by February 5, 2021.
Past Winners of the Student Essay Award
2019 Sarah Carter, “India and the Antiquarian Image: Richard Payne Knight’s A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus”
2018 Caitlin E. Ryan, “Eli Lotar and Jacques-André Boiffard aboard the Exir Dallen”
2017 Vanessa Bateman, “Ursus Horribilis: Seth Kinman’s Grizzly Chair at the World’s Columbian Exposition”
2016 Elysia H. French, “Transformations of Oil: Visibility, Scale, and Climate in Warren Cariou’s Petrography”
2015 Elizabeth Anne Cavaliere, “Onward! Canadian Expansionist Outlooks and the Photographs that Serve Them”
2014 Kathryn Desplanque, “Repeat Offenders: Reprinting Visual Satire Across France’s Long Eighteenth Century”
2013 Jennifer Orpana, “Turning the World Inside Out: Situating JR’s Wish within Cultures of Participation”
2012 Erin McLeod, “By a Wing and a Tale: Authenticating the Archive in Mohamad Said Baalbaki’s Al Buraq I The Prophet’s Human-Headed Mount”
Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2021
Graduate students who presented papers at the 2020 UAAC/AAUC conference are invited to submit complete versions of their essays, in English or French, for consideration by the UAAC-AAUC Board for the Annual Graduate Student Essay Award. The winning essay will be awarded a $250 prize, and will be published in the spring 2021 issue of RACAR.
The regulations are as follows:
- Eligible essays must be papers delivered by graduate students at the 2020 UAAC/AAUC conference; please include in your submission the name of the panel at which your paper was delivered and the name of the Chair of that panel.
- Essays can be in English or French.
- The final submission must conform to the RACAR style guide (http://www.racar-racar.com/submit-an-article.html).
- The final essay should not exceed 5000 words in length and contain a maximum of five illustrations.
- The author of the selected essay is responsible for securing and paying for all image publication rights before the essay is published. It is not necessary to secure permissions for images that accompany your submission. Please include thumbnails of the images with the essay.
- The deadline for submission is January 15, 2021. Essays should be submitted electronically, in WORD format, to Fran Pauzé, the UAAC administrator: uaac@gozoom.ca
The winning essay will be adjudicated by a committee of three UAAC members appointed by the UAAC-AAUC Board and will be announced by February 5, 2021.
Past Winners of the Student Essay Award
2019 Sarah Carter, “India and the Antiquarian Image: Richard Payne Knight’s A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus”
2018 Caitlin E. Ryan, “Eli Lotar and Jacques-André Boiffard aboard the Exir Dallen”
2017 Vanessa Bateman, “Ursus Horribilis: Seth Kinman’s Grizzly Chair at the World’s Columbian Exposition”
2016 Elysia H. French, “Transformations of Oil: Visibility, Scale, and Climate in Warren Cariou’s Petrography”
2015 Elizabeth Anne Cavaliere, “Onward! Canadian Expansionist Outlooks and the Photographs that Serve Them”
2014 Kathryn Desplanque, “Repeat Offenders: Reprinting Visual Satire Across France’s Long Eighteenth Century”
2013 Jennifer Orpana, “Turning the World Inside Out: Situating JR’s Wish within Cultures of Participation”
2012 Erin McLeod, “By a Wing and a Tale: Authenticating the Archive in Mohamad Said Baalbaki’s Al Buraq I The Prophet’s Human-Headed Mount”
Recognition Award
UAAC-AAUC Recognition Award
Established in 2010, the UAAC-AAUC Recognition Award acknowledges members and non-members who have demonstrated their unselfish and devoted service to our association and their commitment to our profession’s ideals. Past recipients of the award are: Catherine Harding & Allister Neher (2010); Mary & Alan Hughes (2011); Barbara Winters (2012); Brian Foss (2013); David McTavish (2014); Joyce Zemans (2015); Nicole Dubreuil (2016); Lora Senechal Carney (2017); Lynda Jessup and Sally Hickson (2018) and Annie Gérin (2019). In 2017, to honour the UAAC-AAUC conference’s 50th anniversary, the board decided that, henceforth, a lifetime membership in the association will accompany this award.
2020 UAAC-AAUC Recognition Award: Dr. Martha Langford
It is an honour to present the UAAC Recognition Award to long-time UAAC member Martha Langford, Distinguished University Research Professor, Art History and Research Chair and Director of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia University, where she has worked since 2004.
Martha’s arrival at Concordia was something of a second, third, or fourth act; with undergraduate training in photography from NSCAD University in Halifax, Martha went on to work for more than two decades in “government” as the Executive Producer of the National Film Board, Still Photography Division, from 1981 to 1985, and, following her rallying of Canada’s photographic community toward the establishment of a permanent institution to promote Canadian photography, overseeing the transfer of the NFB’s still photography collection to the NGC-affiliated Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, where she was chief curator and founding director from 1985 to 1994. Martha earned her PhD at McGill University in 1997, her first book Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums (MQUP 2001) the product of her meticulous research into vernacular photographic albums from 1860 to 1960 held at the McCord Museum in Montreal. Additional publications include Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art (MQUP 2007), the edited volume Image & Imagination (MQUP 2005), a scholarly accompaniment to her city-wide, 29-exhibition Mois de la Photo a Montreal 2005, where she was Artistic Director, the edited volume Narratives Unfolding: National Art Histories in an Unfinished World (MQUP 2016), and, alongside her brother John Langford, A Cold War Tourist and his Camera (MQUP) in 2011. She is also editor of the Journal of Canadian Art History and, alongside Sandra Paikowsky, the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art Histories series for McGill-Queen’s University Press. Her many-decades-long preoccupation with the work, mind, and perception of Michael Snow has led to various publications on his practice; her even longer engagement as a maker, curator, mobilizer, and scholar of Canadian photography has led to authoritative texts on the subject — terrain that she continues not only to confront, but also to expand and complicate.
Throughout her tenure as Director of the Jarislowsky Institute, Martha has redefined the conversation about Canadian art, positioning the subject as one incorporating a plurality of approaches, mirrored by her promotion of networks of exchange between scholars across disciplines and geographies. As a teacher, she models mentorship at its finest, making not only space for emerging voices, but also circuits and platforms through which to amplify them — I am but one of the many products of her mentorship.
Martha’s countless accomplishments and contributions have been formally recognized with her induction as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, in 2018. An anecdote she shared with me many years ago was that while working at the NGC, she would hide her dress shoes in plant pots around the gallery to quickly change into, out of her sneakers, should official business arise; as Kristy Holmes said during our annual board meeting the other day, “Martha IS an institution.”
The UAAC bestows this award to Martha in recognition of her commitment to our organization as a node in the network of ecologies to which she contributes, with gratitude for her boundless energy and belief in the ability to bring to life all that can be imagined, and her deft understanding of systems and institutions—how to work with them, and how to make them work.
UAAC-AAUC Recognition Awards Recipients
2020 Dr. Martha Langford
2019 Annie Gérin
2018 Lynda Jessup & Sally Hickson
2017 Lora Senechal Carney
2016 Nicole Dubreuil
2015 Joyce Zemans
2014 David McTavish
2013 Brian Foss
2012 Barbara Winters
2011 Mary & Alan Hughes
2010 Catherine Harding & Allister Neher
Established in 2010, the UAAC-AAUC Recognition Award acknowledges members and non-members who have demonstrated their unselfish and devoted service to our association and their commitment to our profession’s ideals. Past recipients of the award are: Catherine Harding & Allister Neher (2010); Mary & Alan Hughes (2011); Barbara Winters (2012); Brian Foss (2013); David McTavish (2014); Joyce Zemans (2015); Nicole Dubreuil (2016); Lora Senechal Carney (2017); Lynda Jessup and Sally Hickson (2018) and Annie Gérin (2019). In 2017, to honour the UAAC-AAUC conference’s 50th anniversary, the board decided that, henceforth, a lifetime membership in the association will accompany this award.
2020 UAAC-AAUC Recognition Award: Dr. Martha Langford
It is an honour to present the UAAC Recognition Award to long-time UAAC member Martha Langford, Distinguished University Research Professor, Art History and Research Chair and Director of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia University, where she has worked since 2004.
Martha’s arrival at Concordia was something of a second, third, or fourth act; with undergraduate training in photography from NSCAD University in Halifax, Martha went on to work for more than two decades in “government” as the Executive Producer of the National Film Board, Still Photography Division, from 1981 to 1985, and, following her rallying of Canada’s photographic community toward the establishment of a permanent institution to promote Canadian photography, overseeing the transfer of the NFB’s still photography collection to the NGC-affiliated Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, where she was chief curator and founding director from 1985 to 1994. Martha earned her PhD at McGill University in 1997, her first book Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums (MQUP 2001) the product of her meticulous research into vernacular photographic albums from 1860 to 1960 held at the McCord Museum in Montreal. Additional publications include Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art (MQUP 2007), the edited volume Image & Imagination (MQUP 2005), a scholarly accompaniment to her city-wide, 29-exhibition Mois de la Photo a Montreal 2005, where she was Artistic Director, the edited volume Narratives Unfolding: National Art Histories in an Unfinished World (MQUP 2016), and, alongside her brother John Langford, A Cold War Tourist and his Camera (MQUP) in 2011. She is also editor of the Journal of Canadian Art History and, alongside Sandra Paikowsky, the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art Histories series for McGill-Queen’s University Press. Her many-decades-long preoccupation with the work, mind, and perception of Michael Snow has led to various publications on his practice; her even longer engagement as a maker, curator, mobilizer, and scholar of Canadian photography has led to authoritative texts on the subject — terrain that she continues not only to confront, but also to expand and complicate.
Throughout her tenure as Director of the Jarislowsky Institute, Martha has redefined the conversation about Canadian art, positioning the subject as one incorporating a plurality of approaches, mirrored by her promotion of networks of exchange between scholars across disciplines and geographies. As a teacher, she models mentorship at its finest, making not only space for emerging voices, but also circuits and platforms through which to amplify them — I am but one of the many products of her mentorship.
Martha’s countless accomplishments and contributions have been formally recognized with her induction as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, in 2018. An anecdote she shared with me many years ago was that while working at the NGC, she would hide her dress shoes in plant pots around the gallery to quickly change into, out of her sneakers, should official business arise; as Kristy Holmes said during our annual board meeting the other day, “Martha IS an institution.”
The UAAC bestows this award to Martha in recognition of her commitment to our organization as a node in the network of ecologies to which she contributes, with gratitude for her boundless energy and belief in the ability to bring to life all that can be imagined, and her deft understanding of systems and institutions—how to work with them, and how to make them work.
UAAC-AAUC Recognition Awards Recipients
2020 Dr. Martha Langford
2019 Annie Gérin
2018 Lynda Jessup & Sally Hickson
2017 Lora Senechal Carney
2016 Nicole Dubreuil
2015 Joyce Zemans
2014 David McTavish
2013 Brian Foss
2012 Barbara Winters
2011 Mary & Alan Hughes
2010 Catherine Harding & Allister Neher