Dr. Bolman Wins Heritage Preservation
Award
Dr. Elizabeth Bolman has won the College
Art Association “Heritage Preservation Award
for Distinction in Scholarship and
Conservation” for her work on the Red and
White Monasteries in Egypt. College Art
Association, the professional association of
artists and art historians, gives the prize
is given for “outstanding contributions by
persons who have enhanced understanding of
art through the application of knowledge and
experience in conservation, art history, and
art.’ As Director of the Red and White
Monasteries projects, Professor Bolman
successfully nominated them to the World
Monuments Watch 2002 List of 100 Most
Endangered Sites of cultural heritage. She
has raised over a million dollars for the
work, principally from the United States
Agency for International Development and the
American Research Center in Egypt. She has
published and lectured widely on work and
research associated with this project.
