Student Awards

The Department annually recognizes exceptional work by our students. Two awards are presented annually at the College Tropaia Ceremony in May: the Clifford T. Chieffo Award for Art and the Leo Doran (C’15) Award for Art History. An array of other awards are presented annually at the Misty Dailey Awards Ceremony during the last week of classes in Spring.

Georgetown Campus- Healy Hall and clocktower

Clifford T. Chieffo Award for Art

Presented at College Tropaia in May to the outstanding senior major in Art, as determined by full-time faculty in Studio Art.
Eligibility: Graduating senior Art major (no application)

Clifford T. Chieffo Award for Art (2017 – present)

Leo Doran (C’15) Award for Art History

Presented at College Tropaia in May to the outstanding senior major in Art History, as determined by full-time faculty in Art History.
Eligibility: Graduating senior Art History major (no application)

Leo M. Doran (C’2015) Award for Art History
Georgetown Campus- Healy Hall and clocktower

Misty Dailey Awards in Art, Dailey Family Discovery Award, Dailey Family Award in Art, Diversity, and Healing

Presented at the Misty Dailey Awards Ceremony in April:
Eligibility: Graduating senior Art majors (no application)
Eligibility: sophomore, junior, or senior declared majors in Art History or Art (by application, early April).
Eligibility: any student for work (paper, creative project, single work of art) produced in a Georgetown course in Art or Art History during the current academic year (by application, early April).

Dailey Awards (1993 — present)

Retired Awards

The Da Vinci Medal for Excellence in Studio Art was initiated in 1996 with a generous donation from an anonymous donor. 

The David Lloyd Kreeger Awards in the Fine Arts, awarded from 1986 until 1991, were created to generate interest in creative work among students at Georgetown University.