Past Recipients

Gina Walker Outstanding Project Award

2020s

  • 2024 – Randall Ericson, “The Shakers: A Bibliography” Please note: because Randall Ericson could not attend the 2024 CSA Conference in person, we are temporarily posting an acceptance video here.

  • 2023 – “OCTV Video Blog” by Oneida Mansion House
  • 2022 – Two awards given – Unfinished:  Short Creek podcast by Ash Sanders and Sarah Ventre and Far Out West:  Inside California’s Kerista Commune, film by Dan Greenstone and Travis Chandler
  • 2021 – Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Temple City Project, Nauvoo, IL.
  • 2020 – No Award Given

2010s

  • 2019 – Beverly Seckinger, “Hippie Family Values” Film
  • 2018 – The Rose Valley Museum and Historical Society
  • 2017 – Priesthood Restoration Historic Site, Historic Sites Division, LDS Church History Department
  • 2017 – Zoar Community Association – Zoar Traveling Exhibit
  • 2016 – No Award Given
  • 2015 – Tennessee’s Utopias exhibit – Graham Perry, Tennessee State Museum
  • 2014 – No Award Given
  • 2013 – Within Reach: A Journey to Find Sustainable Community video, Within Reach Productions
  • 2012 – South Union Barn and Cemetery Restoration, South Union Shaker Village, South Union, KY.
  • 2011 – University of Southern Indiana Special Collections, Donald Janzen Photo Collection.
  • 2010 – Nicola Pierson, play based on the Women’s Commonwealth.

2000s

  • 2009 – No Award Given
  • 2008 – Koreshan State Historic Site: Renovation of Art Hall and Founder’s Home Sitting Room Exhibition.
  • 2007 – Hamilton College Digitization of the Shaker Manifesto
  • 2006 – William Albert Allard’s “Hutterite Sojourn,” National Geographic.com.
  • 2005 – Christian Goodwillie, 2004 exhibit “With Hands to Work and Hearts to God: The Arts and Crafts of America’s Communal Utopias”.
  • 2004 – ic.org Web Weavers (Jillian Downey, Elph Morgan, and Michael McIntyre).
  • 2003 – Geoph Kozeny, “Visions of Utopia; Experiments in Sustainable Culture,” video.
  • 2002 – Sonoma County Museum in Santa Rosa, California exhibit – “Utopia Now! (and Then)”.
  • 2001 – The Rapp Granary Owen Foundation for restoration of the 1818 Rapp Granary in New Harmony, Indiana.
  • 2000 – Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington,D.C. exhibit – “Shaker: Furnishings for the Simple Life”.