2013 Governors Arts Awards
Nominees

The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts received 21 nominations for the 2013 Governors Arts Awards. Members of the Governors Arts Awards Selection Committee, appointed by State Arts Council Chairman Roger Brooks, recommended nine of these nominees to Governor Maggie Hassan.

At the formal ceremony on November 6, 2013 at the New Hampshire Institute of Art, award recipients were presented with an original commissioned award created by Andre Belanger of Berlin, NH.

The Governors Arts Awards are typically presented every two years to recognize outstanding, sustained accomplishments in arts education, arts patronage, arts support by a town or city, cultural access leadership, youth arts leadership, distinguished arts leadership, and lifetime achievement as artists.

The following individuals and organizations were nominated for 2013 Governors Arts Awards. We congratulate them for the outstanding contributions they have made to their communities:

David Blair, Mariposa Museum, Dublin
Brian Chagnon, Farmington
Concord Hospital
Kevin Dadoly, Amherst
Stephen Dignazio, Colonial Theatre, Bethlehem
Discover Portsmouth
Robert Duff, Handel Society, Dartmouth College, Hanover
Barbara Fisher, Sunapee
Meri Goyette, Nashua
William Hallager, Lincoln
David Lamb, Canterbury
Marguerite Mathews, Portsmouth
Marcia McCaffrey, NH Department of Education, Contoocook
Randy Miller, Alstead
Pedro Pimentel, Concord
Thomas & Barbara Putnam, Keene
Peter Ramsey, Palace Theatre, Manchester
Frumie Selchen, Wonalancet
Ryan Sweatt, Concord
John M. Weidman, Jr., Andres Institute of Art, Brookline
TJ Wheeler, Hampton Falls

Last updated: November 14, 2013