In addition to the starred, boxed review of the current catalogue Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body in Publisher's Weekly, springtime brought news that the Hood's American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art was one of five finalists in the Bookbuilders of Boston 2008 New England Book Show category of "Professional, Illustrated" publications.
The museum also learned that its 2007 general brochure, distributed by the thousands to venues throughout New Hampshire and Vermont, received an honorable mention in the category "Calendars of Events" in the national 2008 American Association of Museums Publications Design Competition, where the museum's quarterly took first prize nationally in 2004.