CSCA Annual Awards Program

The CSCA is committed to reconceptualizing the study of children’s art and its relationship to historical and contemporary childhoods. The CSCA Annual Awards Program aims to advance this commitment by providing financial support for artist-educators, students and early career and established scholar-practitioners whose work makes timely and important contributions to the study and practice of childhood art.

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PREVIOUS CSCA AWARD RECIPIENTS

Christine Marmé Thompson Distinguished Research Award

2023 | Dr. Patricia Tarr, Associate Professor Emerita, University of Calgary

2022 | Dr. Brent Wilson, Professor Emeritus of Art Education, The Pennsylvania State University

CSCA Doctoral Research Award

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

CSCA Community Research + Pedagogical Support Award

2022| Dr. Shana Cinquemani, Rhode Island School of Design

2022 | Dr. Tracey Flores, University of Texas, Austin

CSCA Faculty Research + Creative Support Award (UARK)

2022 | Dr. Alissa Blair, University of Arkansas

2022 | Dr. Vicki Collet, University of Arkansas

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 related field whose research has made significant and impactful contributions to the study of childhood art.

CSCA Doctoral Research Award

The CSCA Doctoral Research Award is designed to support doctoral students in the U.S. whose work is focused on the artistic, play-based, and aesthetic practices of children. 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 lives, and delegitimize their creative practices. (Award: $3,000)