 |
Governors Arts Awards
Every two years, the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, in cooperation with the New Hampshire Governors Office, present awards in recognition of outstanding contributions to the excellence, growth, support, and availability of the arts in New Hampshire.
Award Categories are:
Click the name of the Award Category for a list of the previous award recipients
The Lotte Jacobi Living Treasure Award recognizes a professional New Hampshire artist, in any discipline, who has made a significant contribution to his or her art form and to the arts community of New Hampshire, reflecting a lifetime of achievement.
The Folk Heritage Award recognizes a New Hampshire traditional folk artist, who has made a significant contribution to his or her art form and to his or her cultural community, reflecting a lifetime of achievement. Traditional art forms are those art forms, passed informally from generation to generation, that reflect the culture of a particular community defined by ethnic heritage, occupational, religious, geographic, or familial groups.
The Individual Arts Patron Award recognizes a New Hampshire resident who has made a significant contribution to the support of the arts in New Hampshire. Contributions may include donations of money, time, goods, or services that over time have significantly increased support for the arts.
The Distinguished Arts Leadership Award recognizes an individual who has played a sustained role in the advancement, direction, or management of a New Hampshire nonprofit arts organization. Examples include: Executive Director, Artistic Director, and Board President.
The Arts Education Award recognizes an organization, individual, school district or community that has made an outstanding contribution to arts education sustained over the past five years. Contributions might include increased funding to arts education, comprehensive arts infused curriculum implementation, or innovation in the classroom.
The Community Spirit Award recognizes the city, town, or village government or community wide non-arts organization (e.g., Chamber of Commerce, Main Street organization) that significantly fostered the arts within the last five years through funding and/or program initiatives. Examples include: major municipal support to a cultural facility or public art program, establishment of a local arts commission/council, unique public/private partnerships to promote cultural tourism, significant increases in local public support for the arts.
The Cultural Access Leadership Award, sponsored in partnership with Granite State Independent Living, recognizes a New Hampshire non-profit arts organization for practicing exemplary cultural access that includes and exceeds physical access. Programmatic access involves adapting the presentation of art-making, art exhibits, musical performances, and theatrical productions so that people with and without disabilities have the same opportunities to experience the arts, as audience and artists. The award celebrates sustained leadership in the arts that includes people with disabilities, their families, and their friends.
Special Awards: From time to time the NH State Council on the Arts recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the arts in New Hampshire but do not fit into any of the above categories. These unique awards are determined by the State Arts Council and celebrated at Governors Arts Award events.
Links
Last updated:
October 25, 2007
|
 |
