PREVIOUS CSCA AWARD RECIPIENTS

Christine Marmé Thompson Distinguished Research Award

2025 | Dr. Linda Knight, RMIT University (Australia)

2024 | Dr. Pamela Krakwoski, University of Pittsburgh

2023 | Dr. Patricia Tarr, University of Calgary (Canada)

2022 | Dr. Brent Wilson, The Pennsylvania State University

CSCA Doctoral Research Award

2025 | Tim Abel, School of Art + Design, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

2024 | No Awardees

2023 | Maddie Zdeblick, College of Education, University of Washington Seattle

Christine Marmé Thompson Distinguished Research Award

International in scope, the Christine Marmé Thompson Distinguished Research Award recognizes and supports a scholar in Art Education, or a related field of study, whose research has made significant contributions to the study of childhood art.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:

1. Letter of Nomination: Nomination letters should include descriptive evidence demonstrating the national and/or international profile of the nominee's research program and its implications for the study of childhood art. Specifically, clear and consistent evidence of peer-reviewed papers, presentations, books, monographs, awards, and other notable forms of scholarly accomplishment.

2. Current CV

3. Additional Letter of Support

APPLICATION PROCESS:

Please submit the nomination materials outlined above as a single PDF file to Christopher M. Schulte at cschulte@uark.edu on or before August 10, 2025, with a decision to be made on or before September 10, 2025.

CSCA Doctoral Research Award

The CSCA Doctoral Research Award ($3,000) is designed to support doctoral students in the U.S. whose research is focused on the artistic, play-based, and aesthetic practices of children, broadly speaking. The CSCA is especially interested in supporting doctoral students whose research centers the lived experience of young people whose bodies, lives, and work continue to be underrepresented in the study of childhood art and/or whose creating, thinking, and being challenges normalized and normalizing perspectives that too often disempower children, decontextualize their ways of being, and delegitimize their creative practices.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:

1. Letter of Purpose (1-page):  Clearly address the focus of your dissertation; Clearly outline the ideas and issues your dissertation research addresses; Clearly outline how and why your dissertation research is important to the study of childhood art.

2. Dissertation Abstract (1-page): Include the current version of your dissertation abstract.

3. Letter of Support (1-Page) Include one letter of support that helps to clarify the three points outlined in your letter of purpose. Letter must be written by a member of your current dissertation committee.

4. Current CV: Include a current copy of your CV.

APPLICATION PROCESS:

Please submit your application materials outlined above as a single PDF file to Christopher M. Schulte at cschulte@uark.edu on or before August 10, 2025. Award recipients will be notified of a formal decision on or before September 10, 2025.

CSCA Award for Curricular Innovation

 The CSCA Award for Curricular Innovation is intended to support PreK-12 Art Educators in the United States whose curricular proposals aim to increase access to high quality visual arts programming for young people. Specifically, the CSCA Award for Curricular Innovation supports art educators whose curricular proposals innovate how the visual arts function as a site for young people to consider the complexities of their social worlds; to voice their interests and expertise; to test the pliability of existing systems of knowledge; to propose new questions and different ways of seeing; and/or to activate the stories that speak directly to their own lives and experiences.

 The CSCA Award for Curricular Innovation provides $500-$1,000 in support (contingent on the availability of funding) for art educators to purchase materials and/or other curricular resources that directly serve the proposed curricular plan.

 For full consideration, please send the following materials to Dr. Christopher M. Schulte, Director of the Center for the Study of Childhood Art, at cschulte@uark.edu. The materials must be submitted as a single PDF file.

•  1-Page Cover Letter. Please be sure to include your full name, professional title, school/district, grade levels taught, and current contact information, including school address. Clearly outline what you are proposing to do with the support provided by the CSCA Award for Curricular Innovation. Clearly outline how the proposed curricular plan aligns to the expressed aims of the award and the mission of the Center for the Study of Childhood Art. Clearly address the timeline for the proposed curricular plan.

Please submit your application materials outlined above as a single PDF file to Dr. Christopher M. Schulte, Director of the Center for the Study of Childhood Art, at cschulte@uark.edu on or before August 10, 2025. Award recipients will be notified of a formal decision on or before September 10, 2025.