2006: Dean Porter

Artist, Author, Director Emeritus of Snite Museum of Art at University of Notre Dame

The Rise and Fall of the Taos Society of Artists

2005: Shelby Lee Adams

Documentary Photographer

Appalachian Lives

2003: Fred Wilson

Conceptual Artist

A Lecture on His Work

2003: Kent R. Weeks

Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo

At Death’s Door: The Future of Egypt’s Valley of the Kings

2002: A.D. Coleman

Photography critic, media commentator and educator

Potlatch, Auction and the In-Between: Digital Art and Digital Audiences

2000: David C. Driskell

Distinguished University Professor of art emeritus, University of Maryland, College Park

The African American Continuum: An Historical Overview

1998: James Cuno

Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums

To Instruct and Delight: Art Museums at the Turn of the Millennium

1997: Jaroslav Folda

N. Ferebee Taylor Professor of the history of art, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

What is Crusader Art?

1997: H. Alan Shapiro

Professor of classics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

The Art of Democracy in Classical Athens

1996: Lucy Lippard

Educator, writer and activist

The Lure of the Local

1995: Gordon Gilkey

Educator, printmaker, print collector, curator and arts advocate in Oregon

The 20th Century Contribution to the History of Art

1994: Marcia Tucker

Founder and director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art

Art in Extremis

1993: Alan Trachtenberg

The Neil Gray Jr. Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University

Street Theater: Helen Levitt and American Urban Photography