Art History offers an Outstanding Achievement in Art History award ($150) annually to a student who has produced outstanding work in Art History and/or has contributed to the discipline at UCFV or in the community.  The recipient is selected each year by Art History faculty, without application.

Past Recipients:

• 1999 David Saito
• 2000 Jaime Dehnke
• 2001 Erin Armstrong
• 2002 Joseph Blessin
• 2003 Catherine Adamson
• 2004 Peggy Bradshaw
• 2005 Kerri Leeper

A number of Art History students have also won prizes for outstanding essays in the annual Writing Across the Curriculum competition.  For more information on these prizes, please visit the Writing Centre.

Art history Students who have received writing prizes:

• 1997
• Kathy Davis - lower level research category.
• 1998
• Sandi Dressler "Toward a Future Hope: An Analysis of Augustus Egg's Past and Present" - critical analysis lower level category
• 2002
• Adam Neufeld "Photography and its Consequences"- critical analysis lower level and Joseph Blessin "The Pre-Oedipal M/other and Child and the Search for the Female Phallus: Feminine Absence, Psychoanalysis and Art Through the Ages" - critical analysis
• 2003
• Janet Smith "Henry Fuseli: A Study of the Sublime" - critical analysis
• 2004
• Megan Arundel  "The Female Nude, the Male Gaze and Artemesia Gentilechi's Susanna and the Elders" - critical analysis
• 2005
• Kelsey Wilson "Beyond Naturalism: Salvador Dali's Dreamworld" - First Year Research Informative category