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2007 Governors Arts Awards
Eagle Awards
The artists who have been commissioned to create this year’s awards are all juried members of various State Arts Council programs. The awards interpret the eagle designed for the dome of the State House. The sculpture, installed in 1819, was the first commissioned public work of art in the state’s history. Since the 1950s, the wooden original has been safely preserved by the New Hampshire Historical Society at the Tuck Library in Concord and is on display in the building’s rotunda. Its gold-leafed replica currently stands atop the State House dome.
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Award: Lotte Jacobi Living Treasure Award
Artist: Gerry Williams, Dunbarton
Recipient: Marilyn Ziffrin, Bradford
Title: Skyflyer
Medium: Clay with glaze
Dimensions: 20” x 16” x 16” |
Award: New Hampshire Folk Heritage Award
Artist: Randy Miller, East Alstead
Recipient: Harvey Tolman, Nelson
Title: Nelson Town Hall Doorway
Medium: burnt-line etching with oil pencil on salvaged maple violin back. Fiddle tune composition by Randy Miller
Dimensions: 14.75” x 8” x 8” |
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Award: Arts Education Award
Artist: Emile Birch, Canaan
Recipient: Phoebe Ann Neiswenter, Pembroke
Title: Flight
Medium: peened and detailed copper, white oak with polyurethane and red oak with latex paint
Dimensions: 13.5” x 6.5” x 12” |
Award: Distinguished Arts Leadership Award
Artist: Kit Cornell, Exeter
Recipient: Drika Overton, Portsmouth and Kittery, ME
Title: Shino Feathers
Medium: porcelain with Japanese Shino glaze
Dimensions: 5.25” x 9.5” x 9.5”
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Award: Individual Arts Patron Award
Artist: Suzanne Pretty, Farmington
Recipient: The Bloomfield Family, Bow
Title: Soaring Above the Fragile Forest
Medium: paper weaver with gouache
Dimensions: 18” x 18” |
Award: Creative Enterprise Award
Artist: Beth Krommes, Peterborough
Recipient: Ken Burns for Florentine Films, Walpole
Title: Eagle Over Walpole
Medium: scratchboard, photocopy & watercolor
Dimensions: 14” x 10” |
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All photos by Arts Councilor, Wendy M. Cahill
High Resolution images available upon request to
(603) 271-0790, julie.mento@dcr.nh.gov
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