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Margo Machida

Margo Machida

Margo Machida Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award.

On February 28, 2009, in conjunction with the College Art Association’s Annual Conference, The Women’s Caucus for Art will award Asian American Studies and Art History professor Margo Machida its Lifetime Achievement Award.

Machida will be honored along with Maren Hassinger, Ester Hernandez, Joyce Kozloff and Ruth Weisberg.

2009 marks the 30th anniversary of the Lifetime Achievement Awards, initially presented in President Jimmy Carter’s Oval Office in 1979 to Isabel Bishop, Selma Burke, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson and Georgia O’Keefe. Past honorees have represented the full range of professional efforts in the visual arts.

The Asian American Studies Institute, the Department of Art and Art History, and the School of Fine Arts Dean’s Office at the University of Connecticut are proud to recognize Margo Machida’s distinguished achievement.

Margo Machida is a renowned authority on contemporary Asian American art and visual culture. She is an associate professor at The University of Connecticut, Storrs and has published extensively on different aspects of Asian American art as well as receiving many grants, including a major grant in 2004 from the Rockefeller Foundation for a Symposium on Contemporary Asian American Art, Creativity and Culture Division (2003-2005). Machida's co-edited volume with Elaine H. Kim and Sharon Mizota, Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art (University of California Press, 2003), won the 2005 Association for Asian American Studies Cultural Studies Book Award.

The Women’s Caucus for Art is an affiliate society of the College Art Association. An early advocate for gender equity in all aspects of the study, teaching and practice of art, today the WCA is a national organization with 30 chapters throughout the United States. Each chapter represents a community of women dedicated to expanding the role of the visual arts in society.

The Asian American Studies Institute heartily congratulates Margo and invites everyone to join us in recognizing her for this well-deserved honor.