Dailey Awards (1993 — present)

About the Awards

The Art and Art History Department, together with the Dailey Family, annually recognizes and awards exceptional work by Georgetown University Art and Art History students. The awards honor the memory of Frances Louise “Misty” Dailey, a Studio Art major at Georgetown, who passed away in 1978 during her senior year. Her family has long supported the arts at Georgetown and endows these awards in Misty’s name. The awards ceremony is held annually late every spring. Application forms are posted on this page each year in early spring.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the award ceremonies for 2020, 2021, and 2022 took place over Zoom. In 2025, the celebration will be held in the de la Cruz Art Gallery on Thursday, April 24th, from 6-8 pm. Event details linked here.

Misty Dailey

A black and white image of a young woman with long hair laughing. She is wearing a baseball cap with "G" for Georgetown

Frances Louise “Misty” Dailey was a Studio Art major in the College who died during her senior year in 1978. Her faculty advisor, Professor Clifford Chieffo, remembers Misty as a joyful, outgoing, and athletic art student, who had been planning a career in art therapy. Misty loved children and she wholeheartedly embodied the Georgetown ideal of service to others. Following her untimely death, the Department of Art and Art History faculty, with the support of her family, classmates, and friends, established the Misty Dailey Awards programs for Art and Art History majors and minors in order to recognize and honor exceptional creative and intellectual work by Georgetown students.