On May 5, 2008, The Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America (ICA& CA) presented the 2008 Arthur Ross Stewardship Award for Exellence in Classical Tradition to The Committee to Save the City.

Accepting for the Committee to Save the City were Jack Simmons [1], Peg Moore [2], and Truman Moore [3].

[See related story in The Post & Courier Champions of classical architecture win national honors.]

The Arthur Ross Awards have been presented annually since 1982 in recognition of important contributions to and achievements in preserving and advancing the classical tradition in art and architecture, artisanship, community design, education, history, landscape architecture/
gardening, mural painting/painting, patronage, rendering, sculpture, and stewardship/good manners. Award recipients are selected by a committee appointed by the ICA & CA Board of Directors, who now remember and honorArthur Ross (1910-2007).

Winners are selected from among several categories:
* Architecture
* Artisanship/Craftsmanship
* Community Design/Civic Design/City Planning
* Education
* History/Journalism/Criticism/Writing/ Editing/Publishing
* Landscape Design/Gardening
* Patronage (for the support of a new project, collection, or body of work)
* Fine Arts: Painting/Rendering/Sculpture/Mural Design
* Stewardship: Good Manners, a.k.a. Historic Preservation (for the upkeep and maintenance of an existing entity)
* Graphics/Photography/Illustration

Winners in the Stewardship category include:
World Monuments Fund, New York, NY (2007)
The Central Park Conservancy, New York, NY (2006)
Biltmore Estate, Asheville, NC (2005)
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (2004), and
Mayor Joseph P. Riley, City of Charleston, Charleston, SC (2001).


For more information on the Award, click here.

For Jack Simmons' remarks as he accepted the Award, click here.

 

< Back to top