AIC and FAIC Awards and Recipients

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The American Institute for Conservation recognizes outstanding and distinguished contributions to the field of conservation. This pages lists past award recipients. For more on the award categories and how to nominate for awards visit AIC's website.

Awards for Teaching, Mentoring and Professional Practice

Robert L. Feller Lifetime Achievement Award

2024: Donna K. Strahan and Abgail Quandt
2023: Susan Buck, Sarah Wagner, and Jeanne Marie Teutonico
2022: Stephen Koob
2021: Pamela Hatchfield
2019: Scott Carrlee
2018: Alan Phenix and Bruno Pouliot
2017: Margaret Loew Craft
2016: James Druzik
2015: Terry Drayman-Weisser
2012: Dan Kushel
2011: Robert L. Feller

Sheldon and Caroline Keck Award

2024: Henry Michael and Ann Shaftel
2023: Jiuan Jiuan Chen and Carherine McLean
2022: Glenn Wharton and Ronald Harvey
2021: Michele Marincola and Kate Smith
2020: Joyce Hill Stoner
2019: Beverly Perkins and Lynn Grant
2018: Norman Weiss, Frank Matero, and Consuela Metzger
2017: Judith Levinson, James Hamm and Gary Albright
2016: Robert Waller and Mary Striegel
2015: Sylvia Rodgers Albro and Renee Stein
2014: Vicki Cassman and Stephen Koob
2013: Marian Kaminitz and Jonathan Thornton
2012: Cathleen Baker and Cleo Mullins
2011: Thomas Edmondson
2010: Betsy Palmer Eldridge and Bruno Pouliot
2009: Nancy Odegaard, Thornton Rockwell, and Ellen Pearlstein
2008: Terry Drayman-Weisser and Craigen W. Bowen
2007: John Krill, Martin Radecki, James Bernstein, and Debra Evans
2006: Nora Kennedy and Catharine Hawks
2005: Irene Bruckle and Martin Weaver
2004: Debra Hess Norris
2003: Margaret Holben Ellis
2001: Virginia Greene and Molly Faries
2000: Jose Orraca and Christa Gaehde
1999: Roy Perkinson
1998: Sidney Williston and Bernard Rabin
1997: Christopher Tahk
1996: Mary Wood Lee and Bettina Jessell
1995: Elisabeth Cornu
1994: Perry Huston and Dan Kushel

Honorary Membership

2024: Anthony Sigel
2023: Nancy Odegaard and Shannon Zachary
2022: Katherine Singley and Eryl P. Wentworth                
2021: Rustin Levenson
2020: Debra Evans
2019: Paul Whitmore and Judith Walsh
2018: Dan Kushel
2017: Stephen P. Koon and Terry Drayman-Weisser                        
2016: Eric Pourchot and H.F. Shurvell
2015: Gloria Fraser Giffords and Catherine A. Metzger  
2014: Walter Henry
2013: Jean D. Portell
2012: Kathryn A. Makos
2011: Perry Huston        
2010: Mary Wood Lee
2009: Ross Merrill, Virginia Greene, and Jose Orraca
2008: Robert H. Brill and Arthur Beale
2007: Roy Perkinson and Susanne P. Sack
2006: Konstanze Bachmann and Marjorie B. Cohn
2005: Mary-Todd Glaser and Don Etherington
2004: Jacqueline Olin
2003: Nobuko Kajitani and Marigene H. Butler
2002: Donald K. Sebera and Monona Rossol
2001: W. Thomas Chase
2000: Heather Lechtman
1999: Kathryn O. Scott
1997: Ellen McCrady and Nathan Stolow              
1996: Mary-Lou Florian
1993: Walter C. McCrone            
1991: Gustav A. Berger
1990: Paul N. Perrot      
1989: Marilyn Kemp Weidner
1987: Anne F. Clapp and Lawrence J. Majewski
1985: Louis Pomerantz
1982: Robert L. Feller and Carolyn Horton
1977: Elisabeth Packard and Richard D. Buck
1976: Sheldon Keck and Caroline Keck
1975: George Stout
1974: Rutherford John Gettens

Fellows

2024: Mary Kaldany, TR. Scott Kreilick, Blythe McCarthy, Patsy Orlofsky   
2023: Carol Aiken, Kelly Ciociola, Mary French, Edward Gilbert, Gretchen Lansford, Constantine Tsaousis, Julie Unruh, Hilda Abreu Utermohlen         
2019: Marilen A. Pool
2016 Jean Dommermuth, Consuela Metzger, Suzanne Siano   
1990: Alfred Ackerman, Susan Blakney, Martin Burke, David Chandler, Denise Domergue, Jane Hutchins, Nancy Odegaard, Zoe Perkins
1989: Debra Evans, James Hamm, Debra Hess Norris
1988: Valerie Baas, Sandra Blackard, Victoria Blyth-Hill, Lucy Commoner, Elizabeth Court, Betty Engel, Inge Fiedler, David Findley, Betty Fiske, Carol Wilson Forsythe, Robert Futernick, Mariol Gallichio, Karen Graham, Doris Hamburg, Patricia Dacus Hamm, Lilly Hollander, Holly Krueger, Angela Lakwete, Richard Lorenz, Kendra Dreerenee Lovette, Elizabeth Lunning, Terrance Mahon, Lance Mayer, David Miller, Dee Minault, Gay Myers, Shelley Reisman Paine, Bettina Raphael, Mervin Richard, Janet Ruggles, Sonja Sopher, Denise Thomas, Deborah Lee Trupin, John Twilley, Dianne van der Reyden, Marc A. Williams
1987: Craigen W. Bowen, Alexander Stopowski, Tatyana Thompson, Constance Wanke, James Wermuth,
1986: Albert Albano, Gary Albright, James Alkons, Stephen Bonadies, Karen Clark, Margaret Loew Craft, Catherine Nicholson Donnelly, Margaret Holben Ellis, Sian Jones, Leslie Kruth, Dan Kushel, Harold Mailand, Linda Merk-Gould, Kenneth Moser, Sherelyn Ogden, Martin Radecki, Shelley Sturman, Gregory Thomas, Jonathan Thornton, Sara Wolf, Pamela Young
1984: Mary W. Ballard, Maura Cornman, Ann Creager, Dante De Florio Jr., Carl Grimm, Michael Heslip, Frederick Hollendonner, Bettina Jessell, Antoinette Owen, Morgan Phillips, Nina Rayer, Carolyn Rose, Faye Wrubel, Hugh Lenox Scott, Ann Shaftel, Marjorie Shelley, Lambertus van Zelst, Judith Walsh 
1983: Catherine Sease, Edith K. MacKennan, Robert McGiffin, Virginia Naude  
1982: Walter Angst, Elisabeth Batchelor, Barry Bauman, Stephen Brooke, Josepha Caraher, Marian Peck Dirda, Sarah Fisher, Henry W.M. Hodges, Louise B. Jeanne, Keiko Keyes, Josephine Lockwood, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Pauline Mohr, Katherine Olivier, Edward Paterson, Victor von Reventlow, Barbara O. Roberts, Robert Walker, Lynda Zycherman          
1980: Cathleen Baker        

1979:Dennis Dobson, Terry Drayman-Weisser, Ursula Dreibholz, Inge-Lise Eckmann, Marcia Friedman, Thom Gentle, John Hyltoft, Timothy Lennon, Rustin Levenson, LawrenceJ. Majewski, Mervin Martin, Jacqueline Olin, Stefano Scafetta, Ewa Smithwick, Christopher Tahk, Alfred E. A. Werner, Doris Westcott           
1978: Harold Cross, Alan Farancz, Doris Freitag, Barbara Gould, Ross Merrill, Paul Schwartzbaum

1976: George Alcorn Allston, Margaret Anderson, Ian Arundel, Stephanie Ewing Blunn, Ruth Dodge, Willis Foster, Virginia Greene, Don Heller, Gerald Hoepfner, Fernande Jones, Ellen Kennedy, Paul Kiehart, Antoinette King, Frances Bishop King, Gustav Klimann, Norman Kohlhepp, Anton Konrad, John Melody           

1975: M.K. Allan, Joseph Amorotico, Barbara Appelbaum, Brian Arthur, M. Randall Ash, Victor Astolfi, Anny Aviram, Forrest Bailey, Eleanor (Labaree) Baker, Paul N. Banks, Peter Barnes, Joseph Battaglia, Norbert S. Baer, Arthur Beale, Barbara Beardsley, Edmond de Beaumont, Curt Beck, Gustav Berger, James Bernstein, Jeanne Billfaldt, Lena Billfaldt, Roy Blankenship, Louise Bluhm, Gertrud Blumel, Brigitte Boyadjian, June Bramall, Madeleine Braun, Charles Bridgman, Robert Brill, Maurice Brouha, Roger Broussal, Geoffrey Brown, Margaret Brown, Richard Buck, Diane Burke, Marigene Butler, Thomas Cairns, Thomas Carter, Foy Casper, W. Thomas Chase, Neelmony Chatterjee, Anne Clapp, Christopher Clarkson, Marjorie B. Cohn, Ernest Coleman, David Colglazier, Joseph Columbus, Louise Cooley, Francis DuPont Cornelius, Victor Covey, DeVant Crissey, Kathryn Cronan, William Crusius, George Cunha, Christine Danziger, Theodore Davidson, Jerilyn Davis, Malcolm Delacorte, Marie Demeaux, Roger Dennis, Ursus Dix, Thomas Dixon, Janice Hines Dobson, Francis Dollof, George Douglass, Robert Downing, David Dudley, Ralph Eames, Katherine Eirk, Betsy Palmer Eldridge, H. Wayne Eley, Dorothy Elliott, Bruce Etchison, Don Etherington, Deborah Evetts, Echo D. Evetts, Maskell Ewing, Jonathan Fairbanks, Robert L. Feller, Stephen Ferrari, Robert Fieux, St. Julian Fishburne, Elisabeth West FitzHugh, Jack Flanagan, Shelley Fletcher, Robert Foland, Paul Foulger, Gary Frost, Christa Gaehde, Fonda Ghiardi-Thomsen, Bethune Gibson, Gloria Fraser Giffords, Mary-Todd Glaser, Martha Goodway, Victor Grace, J. MacGregor Grant, James Greaves, Mary E. Greenfield, Georgette Grosz-Spertus, Per E. Guldbeck, Jean Gunner, James Gussow, Nancy Haller, William Hanft, Robert Hauser, Lily Hayeem, Paul Himmelstein, Felrath Hines, Marildi Kielmansegg Hitchings, Sveteslao N. Hlopoff, Florence Hodes, Hiram Hoelzer, Laurence Hoffman, Elizabeth Hollyday, Mervin Honig, Carolyn Horton, Patricia Houlihan, James Howard, Phyllis Hudson, Eric Hulmer, Perry Huston, Hans-Christoph von Imhoff, Virginia Ingram, Sara Iturbe, Carol Jack, James Warren Jackson, Alfred Jakstas, Louis James, Benjamin Johnson, Arnold Jolles, Elizabeth Jones, Norvell Jones, Nobuko Kajitani, Caroline Keck, Sheldon Keck, Bernard Keisch, Edward Korany, Dayrell Kortheuer, Jeanne Kostich, John Krill, Janet Kulesh, Peter Kulesh, Noel Kunz, Polly Lada-Mocarski, Benjamin Lambert, Juliette de Lavoye, Dorothy Lawson, Eric Lawson, Vladimir Lebedev, Murray Lebwohl, Heather Lechtman, Mary Wood Lee, Bernard Leech, Kate C. Lefferts, Alexandra Levine, Charles Lockwood, Alonzo Lansford, Geoffrey Lemmer, Harvey Lucas, Bronislaw Makielski, Ralph Mayer, Christa Mayer-Thurman, William McCaughen, Robert McComb, Walter McCrone, Patricia McClintic, Eleanor McMillan, Marian McNaughton, Rodger McNicoll, Marion Mecklenburg, Judith Meller, Michael Melnitzky, Pieter Meyers, Elisabeth Mibach, Peter Michaels, Dianne Dwyer Modestini, Ruth Morton, Paul Mucci, Norman Muller, Susan A. Nash Munro, Lorne Murdock, Charles Muskavitch, Walter Nitkiewicz, Ruth Norton, Jay Scott Odell, Teri Oikawa-Picante, Charles Olin, Diane O'Neal, Robert Organ, Jose Orraca, Helen K. Otis, Elisabeth Packard, George Papadopulos, Elliot Parker, Eric Parkinson, Stella Patri, Harry Patton, Joseph Pavone, Heinke Pensky-Adam, Roy Perkinson, Wynne Phelan, Elizabeth Phillimore, John Pofelski, Louis Pomerantz, Frazer Poole, Jean D. Portell, Aubrey Pruet, Eleanor Quandt, Bernard Rabin, James Ray, Pat Reeves, Patricia Reyes, J.W. Rice, W.D. Richey, Orrin Riley, David L. Rinne, Vincent Riportella, Clements Robertson, Roger Roche, Thornton Rockwell, George deWitt Rogers, James Roth, W.E. Rowe, Charles Mervyn Ruggles, Susanne P. Sack, Maurice Salmon, Max Saltzman, Edward Sayre, Kurt Schaldach, Paula Scheel, Susanne Schnitzer, Emil Schnorr, Kathryn O. Scott, Donald Sebera, Leon Sevilla, Linda Shaffer, Franklin Shores, Theodor Siegl, Kay Silberfeld, James Barclay Smith, Leslie Melville Smith, Merrily Smith, Richard Smith, William Spawn, Herman Staenberg, Edward Stanford-Blunden, W.K. Stars, Nellie Stavisky, John Steele, Katherine Stewart, William Stewart, Hamish Stewart-Treviranus, Nathan Stolow, Janet Stone, Joyce Hill Stoner, Cynthia Stow, Takashi Sugiura, Charles Tauss, B.A. Thompson, Luis Torres-Montes, Harold Tribolet, Philip Vance, James Vanderbilt, Jean Volkmer, Ann Wager, Carroll Wales, John Washeba, Peter Waters, Margaret Watherston, Judith Webster, Marilyn Kemp Weidner, Phoebe Dent Weil, Robert Weinberg, Norman Weiss, William Westcott, Rosamond Westmoreland, Gayle Wever, Mary Lou White, Sherman White, C.C. Wiebold, Martin Wiesendanger, Robert Scott Wiles, John C. Williams, Sidney Williston, Kenneth Wilson, John Winter, Gudrun Wolpow, Karen Yager, Martina Yamin, Laura Young, William Young, Alexander Yow, Luis Neri Zagal, Tosca Zagni, Joyce Zucker, Eduard Zukowski
1974: Brigitte Rosendaal Smith                               

Award for Excellence in Practice

New in 2025

Publication Award

2024: Dr. Blythe McCarthy and Dr. Jennifer Glaccai, and Thea Van Oosten,
2022: Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa. Mooring a Field: Paul N. Banks and the Education of Library and Archives Conservators (2019) and Museum Lighting: A Guide for Conservators and Curators by David Saunders
2021: Lisa Elkin and Chris Norris. Preventive Conservation: Collection Storage (2018).
2020: Gwen Spicer. Magnetic Mounting Systems for Museums & Cultural Institutions (2019).
2019: Constance (Connie) McCabe, ed. Platinum and Palladium Photographs: Technical History, Connoisseurship, and Preservation, American Institute for Conservation (2018).
2016: Arlen Heginbotham and Jodie Lee Utter. Charles M. Russell: Watercolors 1887-1926. Amon Carter Museum of American Art (2016).
2015: Sylvie Pénichon. Twentieth-Century Color Photographs: Identification and Care, Getty Conservation Institute (2013).
2013: Irene Bruckle and Gerhard Banik. Water and Paper: A Guide for Conservators, Butterworth (2011).
2012: Dr. Cathleen Baker. From the Hand to the Machine, Nineteenth-Century American Paper and Mediums, Technologies, Material and Conservation, Legacy Press (2010).

Awards for Advocacy and Service

Rutherford John Gettens Award

2022: Anisha Gupta and Anya Dani
2021: Sanchita Balachandran
2020: Karen Pavelka
2019: Theodore (Ted) Stanley
2018: Rachael Perkins Arenstein
2016: Richard L. Kerschner
2015: Sarah Fisher; Catharine Hawks
2011: Shannon Zachary
2010: Elizabeth Kaiser Schulte
2009: Maria Grandinette, Nancy Schrock, and Paul Whitmore
2008: Walter Henry and Helen Mar Parkin
2007: Jay Krueger
2006: Jerry Podany and Rebecca Rushfield
2004: Catherine Sease
2003: Chandra L. Reedy
2001: Margaret Loew Craft and Amparo Torres
2000: Mary Todd Glaser
1999: Martin Burke
1998: Debra Hess Norris and Sara Wolf
1997: Margaret Holben Ellis
1996: Paul Himmelstein and Virginia Naudé
1994: Lambertus van Zelst
1993: Sarah Z. Rosenberg
1992: Eleanor McMillan and Carolyn Rose
1991: Barbara Appelbaum, Murray Lebwohl, and Joyce Hill Stoner
1990: Marjorie B. Cohn, Elisabeth FitzHugh, Susanne P. Sack, and Marilyn Weidner
1989: Terry Drayman-Weisser

David Magoon-University Products Conservation Advocacy Award

2019-present
2023: David Goist
2021: Barbara Appelbaum and Paul Himmelstein
2020: M. Susan Barger
2019:  Mona Jiminez

Conservation Advocacy Award (2010-2018)
2018:  Gregory Dale Smith
2017:  Ann Frellsen
2016:  John R. Watson
2014:  Suzanne Davis
2013:  Dr. Nancy Odegaard
2012:  Rosa Lowinger

University Products Award (1995-2010)
2010: Ann Russell
2010: William Shank
2008: Debra Hess Norris
2007: Constance McCabe
2004: Chris Stavroudis
2004: F. Christopher Tahk
2003: Joyce Hill Stoner
2002: Hugh Phibbs
2001: Inge-Lise Eckmann
2000: Robert Feller*
1999: Walter Henry
1998: Tom Chase
1997: Carolyn Rose*
1996: Marilyn Weidner
1995: Arthur Beale

President's Award

2024: Malia Van Heukelem and Liane Naauao
2023: Jennifer Hain Teper, Ronel Hamde, and Sally Kim
2022: Margaret Holben Ellis and Sarah Reidell
2021: Deborah Lee Trupin          
2020: Nancy R. Pollak
2019: Steven Pine and Deborah Morrow
2017: Patti Dumbaugh  
2016: James M. Reilly    
2015: Michele Derrick
2014: Lisa Goldberg
2013: Catharine Hawks                  
2012: Rachael Perkins Arenstein              
2010: Toby Raphael        
2007: David Bayne
2005: Susan Nichols
2003: Barbara Wolanin

Emerging Leader Award

2024: Abed Haddad
2023: Hector J. Berdecia-Hernandez and Sally G. Kim
2022: LaStarsha McGarity

Allied Professional Recognition

Forbes Medal

2024: Debra Hess Norris
2022: Alison Gilchrest
2008: Anne-Imelda Radice
2005: Angelica Rudenstine
2000: Lawrence L. Reger

Allied Professionals Special Recognition

2022: Dr. Scott Williams
2021: Dr. Jontyle Robinson, PhD
2020: Samuel Anderson
2019: Dr. Matthew Eckleman
2018: none
2017: Teri Rofkar*
2016: Dr. Bruce Kaiser and Dr. Michael J. Ware
2014: Monona Rossol
2013: Steven Puglia
2012: Charles Hummel; Charles Rhyne
2011: James Black
2010: Dr. Robert Blanchette; Joel Jurgens; Benjamin Held
2008: Dennis Ertel
2006: John Johnston; Mark Golden

College Art Association-American Institute for Conservation Award

2024: Dr.Han Neevel and Dr. Birgit Reissland
2023: Michele Marincola and Lucretia Kargere
2022: Zahia Veliz
2021: Nancy Odegaard
2020: Jeanne Marie Teutonico
2019: Karl D. Buchberg and JodiHauptman
2018: Paul Messier
2017: Tom J.S. Learner
2016: Debra Hess Norris
2015: Melanie Gifford
2014: Glenn Wharton
2013: Lance Meyer and Gay Myers
2012: Francesca G. Bewer
2011: Joyce Hill Stoner
2010: David Bomford
2009: Carol Stringari and Chris McGlinchy
2008: Elizabeth S. Bolman
2007: Lawrence Becker
2006: Don Kalec and John Thorpe
2005: Paolo Cherchi Usai
2004: Carol Mancusi-Ungaro
2003: Ernst van der Wetering
2002: Harry Cooper and Ron Spronk
2001: Andrea S. Kirsh and Rustin S. Levenson
2000: ChristaC.Mayer Thurman
1998: W. Thomas Chase
1997: HenryW. Lie
1996: Marjorie B. Cohn
1995: Molly Ann Fairies
1994: Maryan Ainsworth
1993: Arhthur Wheelock
1992: Robert L. Feller
1991: Gridley McKim-Smith, Greta Andersen-Bergdoll, Richard Newman, and Andrew Davidhazy

Specialty Group Awards

Paintings Award

2024: Michael Duffy
2023: Rustin Levenson
2022: Barbara A. Buckley
2013: Chris Stavroudis
2011: Joyce Hill Stoner
2010: Richard Wolbers

Textiles Award

2024: Patricia Ewer
2022: Kathy Francis
2021: Christine Giuntini
2020: Denyse Montegut
2019: Vicki Cassman
2018: Margaret Anderson (formerly Margaret Fikioris)
2017: Joy Gardiner
2016: Lucy Commoner
2015: Harold F. Mailand
2014: Patsy Orlofsky
2013: Leslie Melville Smith
2012: R. Bruce Hutchinson (awarded posthumously)
2011: Mary Ballard
2010: Jane Merritt

Awards for Organizations

Distinguished Award for Advancement of The Field of Conservation

2017: The Library of Congress
2009: Getty Conservation Institute
2005: National Center for Preservation Training & Technology
2004: Leo and Karen Gutmann Foundation and Stanford University Libraries
2003: American Academy in Rome
1996: Andrew Mellon Foundation, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and Getty Grant Program

Ross Merrill Award for Outstanding Commitment to the Preservation and Care of Collections

2024: The Walters Art Gallery
2022: Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site
2020: Bell Museum
2019: The Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden
2017: Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
2016: Harvard University
2014: Tudor Place
2013: Henry Morrison Flagler Museum; Indianapolis Museum of Art
2012: Alaska State Museum; Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame
2011: Maymont Foundation
2010: The Architect of the Capitol; Friends of the Iolani Palace
2009: Historic Cherry Hill; Shelburne Museum
2008: Arizona State Museum; Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners
2007: Cleveland Public Library
2006: Historical Society of Frederick County, Maryland
2004: Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History; The Henry Ford; National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
2003: LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden; Winterthur, An American Country Estate; Canadian Museum of Nature
2002: City of Buffalo Arts Commission; New York Academy of Medicine; Vermont Museum and Gallery Alliance
2001: The Central Park Conservancy; Judson Memorial Church; the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections; the Sculpture Center
2000: Fairmount Park Art Association; the Alden B. Dow Home and Studio; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Bata Shoe Museum
1999: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

*indicates those who are deceased