The Georg Hewitt Myers Award is a prestigious recognition presented by the Textile Museum at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. This award is named in honor of Georg Hewitt Myers, a pioneering collector of textiles and the founder of The Textile Museum. Myers was dedicated to the preservation and promotion of textile art and culture.
The Georg Hewitt Myers Award is typically granted to individuals or organizations that have made significant contributions to the field of textile arts through their scholarship, research, conservation efforts, or support of textile-related initiatives. Recipients of the award are often leaders in the textile community whose work has advanced the understanding and appreciation of textiles as a form of art and cultural expression.
Recipients of Georg Hewitt Myers Award
- 2026 Parviz Tanavoli
- 2025 Romain Zaleski and Moshe Tabibnia
- 2024 Nobuko Kajitani
- 2022 Elizabeth Wayland Barber
- 2019 Thomas P. Campbell
- 2018 Guido Goldman, collector and philanthropist
- 2016 Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, artist and scholar
- 2015 Bruce P. Baganz, museum leader
- 2012 Walter Denny, scholar, educator, and author
- 2011 Milton Sonday, artist and scholar
- 2010 Michael Franses, author and publisher
- 2009 Mattiebelle Gittinger, scholar
- 2008 Jon Thompson, scholar
- 2007 Lloyd Cotsen, collector and philanthropist
- 2006 Josephine Powell, ethnographer and photographer
- 2005 Jack Lenor Larsen, textile designer