USSEA Edwin Ziegfeld Awards
USSEA’s Edwin Ziegfeld Awards honor distinguished leaders who have made significant contributions to the National and International fields of art education. Nominees should be educators that have brought distinction to national and international aspects of art education through an exceptional and continuous record of achievement in scholarly writing, research, professional leadership, teaching, professional service, or community service bearing on international education in the visual arts.
Awardees will share a presentation illustrating their achievements. One national award will honor an art educator from within the United States, and one international award will honor an international colleague who has made contributions of international significance to art education.
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Nominations may be submitted by any member of USSEA, InSEA
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Awardees must be a member of USSEA
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Nomination Forms should be emailed to Fatih Benzer
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Nomination materials (nomination form, vitae, letter of nomination, and two additional letters of support) are due by January 15.
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Letters of nomination, acceptance, and support must be written in English.
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Recipients will be recognized at the annual NAEA conference
Past Awardees (year, United States, International)
2026 - Amanda Alexander
2025 - Mousumi De, Rabeya Jalil, Pakistan
2024 - Allan Richards,, Rolf Laven, Austria
2023 - Alice Wexker, Samia Elsheikh, Egypt
2022 - Joni Acuff, jan jagodzinski, Canada
2021 - Angela LaPorte, Petra Sobanova, Czech Republic
2020 - Patty Bode, Fiona M Blaikie, Canada
2019 - Kerry Freedman, Teresa Torres de Eca, Portugal
2018 - Mary Ann Stankiewicz, Donal O''Donoghue, Ireland
2017 - Elizabeth Garber, Kevin Tavin, Finland
2016 - Steve Willis, Glen Coutts, Norway & Kinichi Fukumoto, Japan
2015 - Doug Blandy, Denis Atkinson, England
2014 - Shen Kuan Chung, Jo-Chiung Hua Chen, Taiwan
2013 - Karen Keifer-Boyd, Helen Idlers, Denmark
2012 - Pamela G. Taylor, Bernard Darras, France
2011 - Elizabeth Delacruz, Ashfaq Ishaq, ICAF
2010 - Judith Burton, Lars Linstrom, Finland
2009 - Flavia Bastos, Rita Irwin, Canada
2008 - Katherine Broadwater, Masumi Toku, Japan
2007 - Christine Ballengee Morris, Liora Bresler, Israel
2006 - Douglas Boughton, Diederik Schonau, The Netherlands
2005 - Vesta Daniels, Olcay Kirisoglu, Turkey
2004 - Tom Anderson & Bernard Young, Rita Irwin, Canada
2003 - Praha Sahasrabudhe, Andrea Kaparti, Hungary
2002 - Mary Stokrocki, Kit Grauer, Canada
2001 - Enid Zimmerman, Robert Emil Tanay, Croatia
2000 - Lois Petrovich Mwaniki, Rachel Mason, England
1999 - Patricia Stuhr, Wieslaw Karolak, Poland
1998 - Kristin Congdon, John Steers, England
1997 - Gilbert Clark, Ann Cheng Shin Kuo, Taiwan
1996 - Betty LaDuke, Max Klager, Germany
1995 - Ron Neperud, Monique Briere, Canada
1994 - Janina Rabinowitz, Heta Kauppinen, Finland
1993 - Rogene Degge, Bogomil Karlavaris, Yugoslavia
1992 - Maryl DeJong, Ana Mae Barbosa, Brazil
1991 - Brent Wilson, Graeme Chalmers, Canada
1990 - Phyllis Gold Gluck, Jarmil Uzdil, Czechoslovakia
1989 - Elliot Eisner, Irene Wojnar, Poland
1988 - Kenneth A Marantz, S. Irein Wangboje, Nigeria
1987 - Al Hurwitz, Brian Allison England
1986 - Larry A Kantner, Eleanor Hipwell, England