History of Recipients

Connecticut Arts Awards 1981 (continued) Pilobolus 1978 Maurice Sendak, Author and illustrator of children’s Marian Anderson, Singer books Robert Motherwell, Painter and printmaker Cesar Pelli, Architect Lippincott, Inc., Public sculpture fabricators Peace Train Foundation / Paul LeMay, Fiddler 1982 and founder of the New England Fiddle Contest Victor Borge, Musician and humorist Patricia Edwards/Valley Arts Center Brookfield Craft Center Juan Fuentes, Photographer Gerry Mulligan, Saxophonist Mildred Dunnock, Actress Lloyd Richards, Actor, director and Dean of Yale Arthur Miller, Playwright School of Drama Moshe Paranov, Pianist and founder of Hartt School of Margo Rose, Puppeteer Music, Hartford United Technologies Corp. Mary Hunter Wolf, Theater director and producer 1983 1979 Willian Benton Art Museum Bowen-Peters School of Dance Arvin Brown, Theater and television director Malcolm Cowley, Literary artist Greater Hartford Arts Council Ralph Kirkpatrick, Musician Jackie McLean, Jazz saxophonist and co-founder of Meriden Gravure Company Artists Collective, Hartford Ruben Nakian, Sculptor James Merrill, Poet National Theatre of the Deaf New Britain Museum of Art 1984 Menen Osario William Styron, Novelist and essayist Wadsworth Atheneum 1980 City Spirit Artists Artists Collective Champion International Peter Blume, Painter and sculptor Lucia Chase, Dancer and actress 1985 Eva LeGallienne, Actress No awards given Newton Schenck, Founder of New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre 1986 Robert Penn Warren, Poet and novelist Betty Jones, Singer Michael Price, Arts administrator (Goodspeed Musicals, 1981 East Haddam) Morris Carnovsky, Actor James Laughlin, Poet Community Renewal Team Craftery Gallery Barbara Tuchman, Historian and author Curbstone Press Anthony S. Keller, Advocate for creation of state arts 1987 councils. Executive director of CT Commission on the Arts Cleve Gray, Abstract expressionist painter from 1966-1981 Lucille Lortel, Producer and actress Ernestine Stodell, Dancer Dave Brubeck, Jazz pianist and composer 1988 1994 Paul Winter, Saxophonist No awards given Aetna Life & Casualty The Hartford Courant 1995 Frank Ballard, Puppeteer No awards given

1989 1996 Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract expressionist painter No awards given Mark Lamos, Theater and opera director John Russell, Art critic 1997 Gary Karr, Bassist Paul Cadmus, Visual artist Alison Chase, Choreographer and co-founder of 1990 Pilobolus Gary M. Young, Contributor to the state arts council John Hollander, Poet and literary critic movement in US. Executive director of the CT Commission Aldo Parisot, Cellist on the Arts from 1981-1990 Young Audiences of Connecticut 1998 Xerox Corporation Antonio Frasconi, Woodcut artist Marilyn Nelson Waniek, Poet Helena Hernmarck, Trompe-l’oeil weaver Gerald Tirozzi, Arts in education leader/advocate Wally Lamb, Novelist Skitch Henderson, Pianist, conductor and composer Moses Pendleton, Choregrapher, co-founder of Pilobolus and founder of MOMIX 1991 Paul Brown, Jazz bassist 1999 Peter DeVries, Editor and novelist Anthony Braxton, Composer and musician Richard Hallinan, Arts administrator (Downtown Judy Dworin, Teacher of dance and arts educator Cabaret Theater, Bridgeport) Elizabeth MacDonald, Potter and sculptor Jane Henson, Puppeteer The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center Martha Myers, Teacher of dance 2000 1992 Elizabeth Gordon Chandler, Sculptor and founder Frank Rich, Jr., Founder of Stamford Center for the Arts of the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts Ann Petry, Author J. D. McClatchy, Poet and literary critic Peter Good, Graphic designer and illustrator Philip Johnson, Architect Robert Anderson, Portrait painter Willie Ruff, Hornist and bassist Audubon Arts District Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts

Renamed Governor’s Arts Awards 2001 1993 No awards given Annie Dillard, Author The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & 2002 Insurance Company Chamber Music Plus Ted Hershey, Danseur Casimer Michalczyk, Sculptor Vincent Scully, Architectural historian Yale School of Drama Yale Repertory Theatre

2009 2003 Jacques Pepin, Chef and author Concora/CT Choral Artists Philip Roth, Novelist Grumbling Gryphons Traveling Campbell Scott, Actor and voice artist Children’s Theatre Smith Edwards Architects Donald Margulies, Playwright Ed Johnetta Miller, Fiber artist 2010 James Naughton, Actor Barkley L. Hendricks, Painter Connecticut Humanities Council 2004 ESPN Antiquarian & Landmarks Society Diane Smith, Journalist, talk show host and author John Canning, Decorative artist and art restorer Connecticut Public Broadcasting, Inc. 2011 Florence Griswold Museum Curtain Call A. R. Gurney, Playwright and novelist Keir Dullea, Actor Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Lyman Orchards Westport Schools Permanent Art Collection Alfred Marder, Peace activist and advocate for Connecticut Freedom Trail 2005 Doug Hughes, Theater and film director 2012 Sam Waterston, Actor No awards given Jeanine Basinger, Film historian and educator Westport Country Playhouse Renamed Governor’s Arts Awards Tina Weymouth & Chris Frantz, Musicians 2013 2006 Elizabeth Alexander, poet, essayist, playwright No awards given Olu Oguibe, visual artist and curator Jimmy Greene, jazz musician and bandleader Renamed Governor’s Awards for Excellence in Culture & Tourism 2014 Christopher Plummer, actor 2007 Tim Prentice, kinetic sculptor Luanne Rice, author William Morris Meredith, Poet

Robert A.M. Stern, Architect New in 2014 Barry Levinson, Screen writer and film director Governor’s Patron of the Arts Awards Dr. Robert D. Ballard, Underwater archaeologist

Anne Tyler Calabresi, co-founder of the IFAI 2008 Jean M. Handley, co-founder of the IFAI Professor Joan D. Hedrick, Historian, educator and biographer Roslyn Milstein Meyer, co-founder of the IFAI Vita West Muir, Founder of the Litchfield Jazz Festival The Travelers Companies, Inc. Gene Wilder, Actor The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Michael Wilson, Stage director