page_title: Association for Public Art
section_title: Awards and recognition
hierarchical_section_title: Association for Public Art / Awards and recognition
caption_attribution_description: English: Statue of a lion and a snake in Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia
context_page_description: Established in 1872 in Philadelphia, the Association for Public Art is the United States' first private, nonprofit public art organization dedicated to integrating public art and urban planning. The Association for Public Art commissions, preserves, promotes and interprets public art in Philadelphia, and it is largely due to the work of the aPA that Philadelphia has one of the largest public art collections in the country. The aPA has acquired and commissioned works by many famous sculptors; supported city planning projects; established an outdoor sculpture conservation program; and sponsored numerous publications, exhibitions, and educational programs. The aPA interprets and preserves more than 200 works of art throughout Philadelphia – working closely with the city's Public Art Office, Fairmount Park, and other organizations and agencies responsible for placing and caring for outdoor sculpture in Philadelphia – and maintains an inventory of all of the city's public art.
context_section_description: Wyck-Strickland Award for aPA Executive Director Penny Balkin Bach, 2019
  Public Art Network Award, Americans for the Arts, 2015
  Best of Philly ® 2014 – New Public Artwork for Roxy Paine's Symbiosis, 2014 
  Inaugural Tyler Tribute Award for aPA Executive Director Penny Balkin Bach, 2013 
  PAD award for achievement in the field of public art for aPA Executive Director Penny Balkin Bach, 2013
  AASLH Award of Merit, American Association for State and Local History, 2011 
  PNC Arts Alive Award for Arts Innovation in Honor of Peggy Amsterdam, Arts and Business Council of Greater Philadelphia, 2011
  Named one of "10 great sculpture gardens across the USA," USA Today, 2011 
  aPA public art projects I have a story to tell you... and Embodying Thoreau: dwelling, sitting, watching named among "the country's best," Year in Review, Americans for the Arts, 2004
  EDRA/Places Award for Place Planning, Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) and the publication Places, A Forum of Environmental Design, 2002
  Henry J. Magaziner EFAIA Award, the AIA Philadelphia Historic Preservation Committee, 2002
  Award for Outstanding Commitment to the Preservation and Care of Collections, The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works and Heritage Preservation, 2000
  First-place SOS! Achievement Award, Save Outdoor Sculpture! (SOS!), 1999
  The Herbert Adams Memorial Medal for outstanding service to American sculpture, National Sculpture Society, 1979
  Centennial Award of Honor from The Philadelphia Chapter of American Institute of Architects, 1969
caption: Lion Crushing a Serpent (1832) by Antoine Louis Barye
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