Honors and Recognition
Honors Spotlight:
Margo Sawyer, MFA
Professor
Department of Art and Art History
College of Fine Arts
Recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation names Margo Sawyer as a 2018 recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for her significant contributions to the arts. Guggenheim Fellows are recognized for demonstrating exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. Sawyer’s work explores the places where architecture and ritual converge to create transcendent qualities that encourage a state of contemplation within the viewer. The central actor in her work is color. Through color, Sawyer joins exquisite objects and materials into domestic spaces, and turns large public spaces into intimate refuges. Her works feature prominently in public spaces such as Houston’s Discovery Green, home of her celebrated Synchronicity of Color: Red/Blue (2008).
Visit the links below to find out more about award criteria and past UT winners.
- Nobel Prize
- Pulitzer Prize
- National Medal of Science
- National Medal of Technology and Innovation
- National Academy of Education
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships
- Members and Fellows of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences
- Members of the National Academies
- American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare
- Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers
- Vannevar Bush Award
- Charles Stark Draper Prize
- Enrico Fermi Award
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators
- Japan Prize
- MacArthur Fellows Program
- Prix de Rome Award
- Alan T. Waterman Award
- Welch Foundation Awards
- Wolf Prize