Vermont State Poet | Governor's Award| Walter Cerf Award | Citations of Merit
1967 to the present
1967 Rudolf Serkin, Musician
1968 Carl Ruggles, Composer
1969 Luigi Lucioni, Painter
1970 Aileen Osborn Webb, Crafts Administrator
1971 Walter Piston, Composer
1972 Alan Carter, Conductor/Founder of VSO
1973 Hayden Carruth, Poet
1974 Clara Sipprell, Photographer
1975 Ivan Albright, Painter
1976 None
1977 Blanche Honegger Moyse, Conductor/ Co-founder of Brattleboro Music Center
1978 Peter Schumann, Actor/Founder of Bread & Puppet Theatre
1979 Bernard Malamud, Writer
1980 None
1981 None
1982 Julius Held, Meyer Schapiro and John Kouwenhoven, Art Historians and Writers
1983 George Tooker, Painter
1984 Marcel Moyse, Composer/Musician
1985 Elsa Hilger, Musician, Cello
1986 Ralph Steiner, Photographer/Cinematographer
1987 None
1988 David Mamet, Writer
1989 Efrain Guigui, Conductor
1990 None (25th Anniversary Silver Citations)
1991 Daniel Urban Kiley, Landscape Architect
1992 Louis Calabro, Musician/Conductor
1993 Grace Paley, Writer
1994 Steve Paxton, Dancer/Choreographer
1995 Pat Adams, Painter
1996 Michael Singer, Landscape Architect
1997 Karen Karnes, Potter
1998 Jay Craven, Filmmaker
1999 Sabra Field, Printmaker
2000 Ernest Kinoy, Screenwriter
2001 Katherine Paterson, Writer
2002 Robert DeCormier, Conductor/Arranger/Composer
2003 Frank Gaylord, Sculptor
2004
Jane C. Beck
VT Folklife Center |
2005
Howard Frank Mosher
Author |
2006
Jaime Laredo
Musician |
1992 to the present
1992
Judith Brown, Sculptor
Frank Hewitt, Painter
Ron Slayton, Painter
1993
Paul Aschenbach, Sculptor
June Gorton, Dancer
James Hayford, Poet
1994
Helen Rogers, Dancer/Choreographer
Donald and Joanne Rathgeb, Theater
Florence Cushman, Pianist
1995
Vivian Fine, Composer
Ruth Stone, Poet
Arthur Williams, Arts Administrator
1996
David Wells, Cellist
Freda Rosenblatt, Pianist
1998
Wolf Kahn, Painter
Melvin Kaplan, Musician
1999
Luis Batlle, Musician
Peter Saxe Jennison, Writer and Publisher
Claire Van Vliet, Visual Artist
2000
Mary Azarian, Painter/Printmaker
Gwyneth Walker, Composer
2001
Sterling Weed, Musician/Orchestra Leader/Teacher
2002
David Budbill, Poet/Playwright
Sam Lloyd, Actor
Margaret MacArthur, Musician/Musicologist
2003
Malcolm Wright, Ceramicist/Sculptor
and Louis Moyse, Musician/Teacher
2004
Tasha Tudor
Illustrator/Author |
2005
Pauline Billings,
VAC Founding Chair
2006
Lucien Day, Painter |
2007
Charles Ginnever
Sculptor |
1968
Howard Bennett
Francis Colburn
Edwin Earle
Mrs. Robert Flaherty
Arthur K.D. Healy
Theadore Morrison
Samuel Ogden, Sr.
Theodore Riehle
Frank Stevenson
Vermont Highway Department
1969
Mrs. Bartlett Arkell
Dr. Paul Boepple
Francis J. Gyra
Edward G. Janeway
Mrs. Theodore Morrison
Marcel Moyse
Jean Simpson
Mrs. Vanderbilt Webb
1970
Dr. Robert S. Babcock
Alice B. Dibble
Evelyn J. Edwards
Armand Henault
Charles E. Tuttle, Jr.
1971
Edwine Behre
Carleton Howe
Rockwell Kent
Ronald Slayton
Peter E. Wendland
1972
Burlington Lions Club
Carol Brown
Gladys Colburn
Walter Hard, Jr.
Margit Holzinger
Bradley Smith
Stinehour Press
1973
Paul Aschenbach
Jon Borowicz
Margaret MacArthur
Louise (Mrs. Byron) McCoy
Mary Rowe (Mrs. Harry)
Clara Sipprell
1974
Patricia (Mrs.) Abraham
Melissa Brown
Peter Brown
Carolyn Long
Peter Schumann
1975
Burlington Savings Bank (Bank Chairman, Frederick Smith)
Adele Dawson
D'Ann Calhoun Fago
Dorothy Hung
1976
George Finckel
Bennington College
Cathedral of St. Paul's Ministry of the Arts
William Lipke
Maggie Maurice
Rutland City Municipal Band
1977
Governor Philip H. Hoff
Richard H. Janson
Katherine King Johnson
West Village Meeting House of All Souls Unitarian-Universalist Church
1978
The Bundy Art Gallery
Dorothy and David Dushkin
Edward J. Feidner
Robert E. Sheridan
1979
John Carroll
Ellison Lieberman
Nella Grimm Fox Room, Rutland Free Library
UVM Choral Union (James Chapman, Conductor)
1980
Carol Langstaff Duveneck
Lionel Nowak
Reverend J. Lynwood Smith
J. Lynwood Smith, Jr.
1981
Allen Johnson
George Little Press, Inc.
Thomas Slayton
Peter Smith
1982
Albert B. Chandler Cultural Foundation
Eric Peterson
Andrea Rogers
William Schubart III
1983
Anthony (Tony) Barrand
Louis Calabro (Special Citation)
Bertha T. Koury
Toni Taylor
Margaret (Mrs. Norman) Williams
1984
Irving Bates
IBM Corporation
Janet Rood
Governor & Mrs. Richard Snelling
WNCS (Jeb & Susan Spaulding)
1985
Elizabeth Brouha
Constance Price
David Strohmier
Brattleboro Reformer/Norman Runnion
1986
Christine Graham
Robert Nuner
Don Sunseri
Vermont Sunday Magazine
Green Mountain Power Corporation
1987
Mary Rowe
James Sardonis
Children's Art Exchange
The IATSE Local 919
Project Harmony
Muriel Palmer
Vermont National Bank
1988
Terrance Demas
Arthur Williams
Jan Danziger
Linda Rubinstein
Chittenden Trust Corporation
1989
Pat Adams
Bread and Puppet Theater
Elizabeth Brouha
Thomas Conlon
Jay Craven
John Engels
Ed Feidner
Flynn Theatre for the Performing Arts
Jon Gailmor
Robert Gannett
Phillip Hoff
Elinor Janeway
Louis Levy
Chester Liebs
Ellen Lovell
Peter Marsh
Blanche Honegger Moyse
William Schubart
Catherine Stockman
Don Sunseri
Vermont Studio School
Gwyneth Walker
David and Janet Wells
Arthur Williams
International Business Machines
1990
Henry Carris
Jill Charles
James Montague
Edwin Lawrence
Downs Rachlin & Martin
1991
Jonathan Gregg
Louise von Weise
Jim Lowe
Philip Bither
Mary Anthony Cox
S.T. Griswold & Co., Inc.
1992
Jeanne Brink
Anne Taylor
Senator Robert Gannett
David McWilliams
National Life of Vermont
1993
Jean Sousa
Janet Ressler
Jim Ross
Renee Wells
George Becker
Martha Pellerin Drury
Skip Farrell, Pepsi-Cola Bottling of Burlington
1994
Ron Wild
River City Arts
Vermont Folklife Center
David "Crow" Levine
Minzter Brothers
1995
City of Barre
Hannah Dennison
Donna Borofsky
Andrew Cohen
Larry Gordon
Paul Frank & Collins, Inc.
1996
Ludy Biddle
Susan Farrow
Martha Fitch
Nicholas Hecht
Vermont National Bank
1998
Kate Pond
Verandah Porche
Vermont Public Radio
Lynne DeBeer
Community National Bank, Derby
1999
Karen Hess, Writer
Donny Osman, Theater Artist and Director of the Governor's Institute of the Arts
Shelburne Farms, Shelburne
IDX Systems Corporation, South Burlington
2000
Sara Doncaster, Musician, Founder/Director of Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival
Christine Hadsel, First and long-time Director of Vermont Museum and Gallery Alliance
Harriet Worrell, Director of Yoh Theatre Players of Woodstock High School
Bell Atlantic
2001
Vermont Music Educators Association
Vermont Art Teachers Association
Vermont Alliance for Arts Education
Vermont Drama Council
Vermont Museum & Gallery Alliance
Governor's Institute on the Arts
Sweet Tomatoes Trattoria Restaurants
2002
Peggy Kannenstine, Artist/Arts Advocate
Victor Swenson, VT Council on the Humanities
Vicky Young, Crossroads Arts Council
Robert McBride, RAMP (Rockingham Arts Museum Project)
Barre Opera House
Frog Hollow Craft Center
Okemo Mountain Resort
2003
Bernier Mayo, St. Johnsbury Academy
Steve Klimowski, VT Contemporary Music Ensemble
Key Bank
2004
B. Amore, Sculptor/Founder of the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center
Eric Bass and Ines Zeller Bass, Founders of Sandglass Theater
Rob Mermin, Founder of Circus Smirkus
David Gunn, Composer
Ed and Barbara Morrow, Northshire Bookstore
Walter Parker
2005
Ric Campman, Artist
2006
Mike Rainville, Maple Landmark
Dan Davis, Vermont Plywood
2007
Tom Slayton, Editor Emeritus, Vermont Life Magazine