Susanneh Bieber, Assistant Professor in the Departments of Visualization and Architecture at Texas A&M University was awarded the Terra Foundation International Essay Prize for her essay “Going Back to Kansas City: The Origins of Judd’s Minimal Art.”  In her text, Bieber explores an early moment in artist and art critic Donald Judd’s career when his minimalist sculpture and his critical writing both elevated an “ordinariness” connected to vernacular architecture of his hometown, Kansas City. The essay will be published in a forthcoming issue of American Art, the peer-reviewed journal published by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the University of Chicago Press. For more information see  americanart.si.edu/research/awards/terra.