Decorative Arts Trust Prize for Excellence and Innovation

About the Prize

The Decorative Arts Trust Prize for Excellence and Innovation is a $100,000 award that funds outstanding projects advancing public appreciation of decorative art, fine art, architecture, or landscape.

The Prize is awarded to a nonprofit organization in the United States for scholarly endeavors such as a museum exhibition, print or digital publication, conservation or preservation project, or an online database.

Recent Recipients

• Custard Institute for Spanish Art and Culture at Southern Methodist University’s Meadows Museum and the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas for The Digital Porcelain Rooms Project (2025)
• Drayton Hall’s plaster ceiling projects (2024)
• Concord Museum’s Whose Revolution exhibition (2023)
• Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s Dorothy Liebes exhibition (2022)
• Black Craftspeople Digital Archive (2021)
• Craft in America’s Craft Video Dictionary (2020)

Application Details

Nominations for the 2026 Prize are due by 30 June 2026.

For more information, visit decorativeartstrust.org/prize or email grants@decorativeartstrust.org.