NEW YORK— The College Art Association (CAA) has named the recipients of its 2009 Awards for Distinction, representing outstanding achievement in each category. CAA President Paul Jaskot will formally recognize and award the winners at Convocation during the CAA’s 97th Annual Conference, which will take place on February 25 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The event includes scholarly discussions, career-development workshops, panel sessions, and art exhibitions for art students, historians, scholars, and admirers.

Some of the winners include: Mary Heilmann, the Artist Award for Distinguished Body of Work; Chris Burden, the Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement; the Guerilla Girls, Distinguished Feminist Artist; Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award for Artisans in Early Imperial China; Richard Meyer, the Art Journal Award for his essay “‘Artists sometimes have feelings’”; Boris Groys, the Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism; Georges Didi-Huberman, the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art; and Carol Stringari of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Chris McGlinchey of the Museum of Modern Art, the CAA/Heritage Preservation Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation for their collaboration on the exhibition “Imageless: The Scientific Study and Experimental Treatment of an Ad Reinhardt Black Painting.”