Harry A. Davis Faculty Award
Herron Alumni Association/Harry A. Davis Faculty Award
The Herron Alumni Association awards the Harry A. Davis Faculty Award annually to an outstanding faculty member of the Herron School of Art and Design who has demonstrated an outstanding and extraordinary commitment to Herron students.
ELIGIBILITY: All part-time, adjunct, and full-time faculty are eligible.
CRITERIA: The award is intended for those persons who are recognized by students as having made truly extraordinary contributions to their educational experience. The emphasis in selection of award recipients will be on out-of-class mentoring as well as in-class teaching at the Herron School of Art and Design. Nominations should speak to the candidate's unique service to students.
NOMINATION PROCESS: Part-time and full-time students currently enrolled in the Herron School of Art and Design may serve as a nominator. Electronic nominations are due to the Herron Alumni Association, 850 W. Michigan Street, Suite 241, no later than 5:00 p.m. on March 21, 2008. (Sorry, no paper nominations will be accepted)
**Please be sure to include a nomination letter (copy/paste into area on form) which summarizes why the candidate being nominated makes such a distinctive contribution. Examples should show involvement with students beyond normal and expected requirements of candidate's position with the Herron School of Art and Design.
Candidates are eligible for nomination in successive years.
SELECTION COMMITTEE: The committee will be comprised of members of the Herron Alumni Association's Board of Directors.
The successful candidate will be honored at Awards and Honors Night in May 2008 and his or her name will be placed on permanent display on a plaque in Eskenazi Hall.
ABOUT HARRY DAVIS:
Harry A. Davis earned his BFA from Herron in 1938, the same year he won Prix de Rome in Painting. In 1941 he was named Artist-in-residence at Beloit College, Wisconsin. After enlisting in the Army in 1942, he designed camouflage in North Africa and in 1944 became a combat artist with the Fifth Army Historical unit in Italy. The drawings and paintings completed during this time are property of the War Department at the Pentagon. His studio was located in Brownsburg until 1960. At that time, he began an ongoing series of paintings of landmarks that interested him and has since completed over 500 of these paintings. For 37 years he taught drawing and painting at the Herron School of Art and was proclaimed Professor Emeritus. In 1971, the school recognized his 25th year of teaching with a stipend from the Milliken Fund for research in England. For the Indiana Sesquicentennial in 1972 he presented an exhibition entitled "My City" at the Herron gallery. A sabbatical in 1975 enabled him to paint in Southern Indiana for his "A Segment of the Historic Ohio River Valley" as part of the U.S. Bicentennial celebration in 1976. For a traveling show in 1983, "Here and There; The Italian Influence",
he compared buildings of Indiana to those of Italy. Because of his fascination
with Hoosier architecture, he received the Sandi Servaas Memorial Award from
Historic Landmarks of Indiana. Harry Davis, a lifetime member of the Herron Alumni
Association, passed away in February 2006 at the age of 91.
