Professor Terry Smith receives the 2022 Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award from the College of Art Association of America
AAANZ President and Executive congratulate Professor Terry Smith on receiving this prestigious award in recognition for his services to academic teaching and being an inspirational mentor to his students.
Details of the announcement can be found at https://www.collegeart.org/news/
CAA 2020 Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award
Terry Smith has long written, curated and taught across borders, in the beginning coming from Australia to study and work in New York as both a scholar and an active member of Art & Language. He has been expanding his sights ever since. He has long advocated for the study of Indigenous art. For the past twenty years, starting with projects such as ‘Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s -1980s’ at the Queens Museum, he was the trusted collaborator of Okwui Enwezor. He has always insisted that the past and the present be given their due consideration and global perspectives.
All of this came into his teaching. Students have understood the breadth of his expertise and curiosity; they have used them as inspiration for their own paths; they have appreciated his warmth, his encouragement and the gift of his time. The example he has set as an art historian and a curator has had visible effects in the ranks of university professors and museum curators in the United States and abroad. They do not conform to a single, theoretical way. His students repeatedly speak of his belief in the independent existence of the art object and at the same time his insistence that it be grounded and imbricated in its own real time social relations. Art is allowed its scale, its interior place in our minds, and its exterior place in our world.
Image: Professor Terry Smith lecturing in Tokiyo, 2013
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