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From The Decorative Arts Trust:

Decorative Arts Trust Prize for Excellence and Innovation, $100,000

Application due by 30 June 2026

The nomination deadline for the 2026 Decorative Arts Trust Prize for Excellence and Innovation is June 30. This $100,000 award funds outstanding projects that advance public appreciation of decorative art, fine art, architecture, or landscape. The Prize is awarded to a nonprofit organization in the United States for a scholarly endeavor, such as a museum exhibition, print or digital publication, a conservation or preservation project, or an online database.

Recent recipients include the Custard Institute for Spanish Art and Culture at Southern Methodist University’s Meadows Museum and the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas for The Digital Porcelain Rooms Project (2025); Drayton Hall’s plaster ceiling projects (2024); Concord Museum’s Whose Revolution exhibition (2023); the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s Dorothy Liebes exhibition (2022); the Black Craftspeople Digital Archive (2021); and Craft in America’s Craft Video Dictionary (2020).

For more information, visit decorativeartstrust.org/prize or email grants@decorativeartstrust.org.