Bragging Rights: Worldwide Influence

Dallas Contemporary puts Dallas on the world stage of contemporary art, helping to launch the careers of artists, curators, and museum professionals. Over the past eight years, young professionals discovered by Dallas Contemporary have gone on to make their marks in many ways, including: three artists becoming Guggenheim Fellows; one locally curated exhibition moving to the Pompidou Center in France; one Dallas Contemporary intern launching a career in museum management at the Frick Museum in New York. Dallas Contemporary was recognized as a museum to watch by The Wall Street Journal and the influential Saatchi website, which receives over a million hits each year.

Our excellence has been widely recognized, through 35 national and state awards for excellence in graphic design. The American Association of Museums awarded the Art Think program and gave four additional AAM awards and 30 awards came from the Texas Association of Museums' Wilder Awards for excellence in museum publications.

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AAM Museum Publications Design Competition:

(national award)

2008
Second Prize for Educational Resources less than $750,000 - Art Think Journals

2007
Honorable Mention for Supplementary Materials - Exhibitions Brochures
Second Prize for Educational Resources - Table Tents about Art Think

2006
Honorable Mention for Supplementary Materials - Exhibition Brochures
Second Prize for CD-ROM - Moving Pictures Video

Mitchell A. Wilder Award for excellence in publication and media design:

(state award)

2008
Non-Print Media - Legends 2007 Video (Merit Citation)
Invitations & Announcements - Wish! 2007 Auction (Silver Citation)
Marketing Materials - Thanks for Making an Impact (Merit Citation)
Marketing Materials - New Friends, New Art (Merit Citation)

2007
Invitations & Announcements - Wish! 2006 Auction (Merit Citation)
Non-Print Media - Ask 2006 Luncheon Video (Silver Citation)

2006
Non-Print Media - Ask 2005 Luncheon Video (Merit Citation)
Non-Print Media - Moving Pictures artist’s interviews video (Silver Citation)
Supplementary Materials - A Contemporary Annual Gift (Merit Citation)
Brochures - Exhibition 2005 Brochures (Silver Citation)
Development Campaign Materials - Ask 2005 Luncheon (Gold Citation)

2005
Non-Print Media - Piece Work Artists' Video (Merit Citation)
Invitations & Announcements - Legends 2004 (Merit Citation)
Supplementary Materials - The Contemporary Dance (Silver Citation)
Invitations & Announcements - Wish! 2004 Auction (Silver Citation)
Invitations & Announcements - Exhibitions 2004 (Silver Citation)
Books & Catalogues - Exhibitions 2004 Catalogue (Merit Citation)
Development Campaign Materials, Annual Reports - Ask 2004 Luncheon Tents (Silver Citation)

2004
Non-Print Media - 2003 (Merit Citation)
Invitations & Announcements - Wish! 2003 Auction (Silver Citation)
Development Campaign Materials, Annual Reports - Help Us Build the DC (Merit Citation)
Development Campaign Materials, Annual Reports - Smart Art Postcards (Gold Citation)
Invitations & Announcements - Pinch Me Contemporary Legends (Merit Citation)
Non-Print Media - Legends 2003 Video (Merit Citation)

2003
Invitations & Announcements - Wish! Art Auction (Merit Citation)
Invitations & Announcements - Contemporary Legends (Gold Citation)
Development Campaign Materials, Annual Reports - 2002 (Silver Citation)

2002
Invitations & Announcements - Ridgeway: White Flowers (Merit Citation)
Newsletter & Calendar - Articles Newsletter (Merit Citation)

1998
Supplementary Materials - Gift Shop Tags (Silver Citation)

1996
Invitations & Announcements - Legend 1995 Award Invitations (Merit Citation)

Special thanks to our fabulous design & production teams:
Megan Reinhardt, Reinhardt Creative
& Quin Mathews, Quin Mathews Films/Dallas

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