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 2003 Governor’s Arts Awards
Award Recipients
The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts announces the seven recipients of the 2003 Governors’ Arts Awards. The winners were honored at a gala ceremony at the Concord City Auditorium on Sunday, January 11, 2004, The Governor’s Arts Awards are presented every two years and recognize outstanding accomplishments in arts education, arts patronage, arts support by a town or city, cultural access leadership, distinguished arts leadership, folk heritage, and an individual artist’s lifetime of work. The Governor will presents each recipient with a unique award, designed by a New Hampshire artist.
The 2003 Governor’s Arts Awards recipients and award artists are:
 Lotte Jacobi Living Treasure
Edwin and Mary Scheier, potters
Artist Creating Award: Robert Hughes, Berlin
Potters Edwin and Mary Scheier, who rose to national prominence
while living and working in New Hampshire, could not attend the
award ceremony. Director of the Currier Museum of Art Susan
Strickler, who accepted the Lotte Jacobi Living Treasure award on
their behalf, poses with its creator Robert Hughes. |
 Folk Heritage
Ellis Hatch, Jr. , fly tier, Rochester
Artist Creating Award: Garry Kalajian, Concord
Fly tier Ellis Hatch,
Jr. (right) holds a clock,
with eagle-feather
hands, designed by
metal smith Garry
Kalajian. |
 Community Spirit
Town of Littleton
Artist Creating Award: Greg Gathers, Portsmouth
Representatives of
the Town of Littleton
traveled to Concord
to receive the
Community Spirit
Award and met with
the award's creator,
theatre artist Greg
Gathers (far left). |
 Arts Education
Timberlane Regional High School
Artist Creating Award: Kathy Hanson, Northfield
Timberlane Regional
High School’s music
director Anthony
DiBartolomeo (right) and
Superintendent Dr.
Douglas McDonald (left),
pose with artist
Kathy Hanson who
created the Arts in
Education award
that was received by
the Timberlane
Regional School
District. |
 Cultural Access Leadership
Portsmouth Children's Museum
Artist Creating Award: Joy Raskin, Concord
Artist Joy Raskin (holding award) with Denise Doleac (left of center) of
the Portsmouth Children's Museum,
recipient of the Cultural Access
Leadership Award. |
 Distinguished Arts Leadership
Janice Hastings, Washington DC, formerly of Concord
Artist Creating Award: Gail Smuda, Concord
Artist Gail Smuda
(right) and Distinguished
Arts Leadership
Award recipient
Janice Hastings. |
 Individual Arts Patron
Hilda Fleisher, Manchester
Artist Creating Award: Tim Gaudreau, Portsmouth
Artist Tim Gaudreau
(right) meets Individual
Arts Patron award
recipient Hilda
Fleisher. |
 Government Leadership in the Arts Award
Senator Judd Gregg
Artist Creating Award: RP Hale, Concord
The New Hampshire Citizens for the Arts along with the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts honored Senator Judd Gregg with the State's first Government Leadership on the Arts Award during the 2003 Governors Arts Award ceremony.
The award, created by artist RP Hale of Concord, New Hampshire, is a gilded calligraphy framed artwork outlining his leadership and accomplishments in support of New Hampshire's arts community.
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 About the Award Design Theme
The artists who have been commissioned to create the awards are all juried members of various State Arts Council programs. All seven awards will interpret the eagle designed for the dome of the State House, which was installed in 1819.
Since the 1950s, the wooden original has been safely preserved by the New Hampshire Historical Society in the Tuck Library. Its gold-leafed replica currently stands atop the State House dome. |
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