The Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) awarded the 2011 Arline Custer Memorial Award to Douglas L. Frost for his book MICA: Making History / Making Art. Frost, who is Vice President for Development Emeritus at MICA, tells the Baltimore institution’s nearly two-century history, from 1826 to the present day. The book utilizes hundreds of documents—text and images—from sources held in the Maryland Institute College of Art Archives at the Decker Library & Media Resources Collection and in other collections in Baltimore and beyond. MICA: Making History / Making Art was published by MICA.
Images of the book are available on argotandocre.com, as is a link to a Salon interview with author Douglas L. Frost.
The Arline Custer Memorial Award recognizes the best books and articles written or compiled by individuals and institutions in the MARAC region. Works under consideration include, but are not limited to, monographs, popular narratives, reference works and exhibition catalogs using archival sources.
(From H-Maryland)