Call for Entries
The Arthur Ross Awards are named in honor of Arthur Ross, who established the awards with Henry Hope Reed in 1982, to recognize and celebrate excellence in the classical tradition. For the last 26 years, the awards have recognized the achievements and contributions of architects, painters, sculptors, artisans, landscape designers, educators, publishers, patrons, and others dedicated to preserving and advancing the classical tradition. For more information contact Henrika Taylor at ht@classicist.org.
Deadline: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 ~ 5pm
Presentation of Awards
Monday, May 4, 2009, at New York’s historic University Club.
Award Categories
The jury will select five recipients for awards from among the following categories:
- Architecture
- Artisanship/Craftsmanship
- Community Design/Civic Design/City Planning
- Education
- History/Journalism/Criticism/Writing/Editing/Publishing
- Landscape Design/Gardening
- Patronage (for the support of a new project, collection, or body of work)
- Fine Arts: Painting/Rendering/Sculpture/Mural Design
- Stewardship: Good Manners, a.k.a. Historic Preservation (for the upkeep and maintenance of an existing entity)
- Graphics/Photography/Illustration
Please note that Awards are not given in every category every year, however, in exceptional circumstances, more than one award may be given in a given category.
Award Criteria
The Arthur Ross Awards jury considers several factors in selecting each year’s recipients:
The Arthur Ross Awards are not given for individual projects, but rather for a career or body of work by the nominee.
Awards are given to practitioners or advocates of the classical tradition who are deserving because their work represents excellence in their field, or they have been working without national exposure over the course of their career because of their geographical location or lack of media exposure, or because they are rising practitioners whose work the jury hopes will be encouraged by the Award.
In the domain of Fine Arts, the body of work should have a public character, or have been created in association with architectural projects, or be related to design and placemaking, or the depiction of the built environment.