Governor's Arts Awards2005 Warren Chang of Bellevue, musician and master of the Er-Hu, a two-stringed traditional Chinese violin, and head of the Chinese Arts and Music Association.
Fabrication Specialties Ltd., an artist-owned firm focused on collaborative public art construction based in Seattle. Owners Larry Tate, Gerald McGinness and Bob Qualheim accepted the award.
SEED Arts Program, a non-profit organization with a long history of supporting the arts in South East Seattle. Executive Director Jerri Plumridge accepted the award.
Peter Donnelly, retired ArtsFund President, received a “lifetime achievement” award for his support of the arts in Washington State.
Recipients of the Governor’s Heritage Awards were: Virginia Beavert of Toppenish, Yakama Nation elder, teacher of sacred songs and ceremonies, and of Yakama Sahaptin and other Plateau languages; Wilho Saari of Naselle, a Finnish-American musician and master of the kantele (the traditional Finnish zither); and the Wapato Indian Club, a Native American heritage club and dance troupe from Wapato Middle School on the Yakama Reservation, Director Margaret Carter accepted the award.
2002-2004 No awards presented
2001 Artist Trust Carol Hassen Gayle Tremblay
2000 City of Bellevue’s Crossroads Youth Theater Sam Hamill Linda Oestriech
1999 Walter Graham Jack Mackie Museum of Northwest Art
1998 Max Benjamin Hedgebrook Writers Retreat Alan Iglitzin & the Philadelphia String Quartet
1997 Phillip Levine Walla Walla Symphony Citizens of Metaline Falls Tacoma Art Museum
1996 The International Alliance of Theatrical Employees (Local 15), Studio Mechanics of The Pacific Northwest (Local 488) and Theatrical Wardrobe (Local 887) The Seattle Arts Commission The Walla Walla Foundry with Director Mark Anderson
1995 Mr. and Mrs. Jack Benaroya Columbia River Renaissance Art Committee Eastern Washington State Historical Society
1994 Corporate Council for the Arts Philip McCracken Northwest Asian American Theater
1993 Judith Meltzer-Smith Toppenish Mural Society Joe Wheeler
1992 The Boeing Company Doris Chase Robert Helm
1991 Richard Gilkey Carole Glickfield Intiman Theater Company Moses Lake City Council Samuel Stroum Tears of Joy Theater
1989-1990 Copper Canyon Press Gaylen Hansen Sheffield and Patricia Phelps Seattle Children’s Theater Washington Trust Bank/Foundation
1988 Harold Balazs The Empty Space Theater LaMar Harrington Paul Horiuchi The Music and Art Foundation Ruth Slonin Kent Stowell and Francia Russell Vancouver Federal Savings Bank Victory Music The Wenatchee World
1987 Nelson Bentley Centrum Foundation Chateau St. Michelle Dr. Solomon Katz Ramona Solberg Tacoma Youth Symphony
1986 Artists Unlimited Mr. and Mrs. Morris Alhadeff Dr. and Mrs. Ellsworth Alvord, Jr. Alfredo Arrequin Ben B. Cheney Foundation The Group Theater Old National Bank Port Angeles Symphony Jose Rambaldi
1985 Burlington Northern Foundation Columbia Arts Center Dr. and Mrs. Hans Lehman Tacoma Actors’ Guild Victor Steinbrueck George Tsutakawa
1984 Alcoa Foundation Dale Chihuly and the Pilchuck School Connoisseur Concerts Anne Gerber Jacob Lawrence
1983 Guy Anderson Kenneth Callahan The Capitol Theater Columbia Basin Allied Arts Mrs. David W. Gaiser City of Kent Safeco Insurance Company Virginia Shackelford WAMPUM
1977-1982 No awards presented
1976 Allied Arts Council of North Central WA Black Arts/West Dr. Stanley Chapple Ellensburg Community Art Gallery Washington State Department of Highways Bill Holm Mrs. Ellida H. Kirk George Laisner Mr. and Mrs. Bagley Wright
1975 Allied Arts Association of Richland Anacortes Arts and Crafts Festival, Inc. and Anacortes School District #103 Dr. Lester S. Baskin Julia Butler Hansen Vilem Sokol and the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra The City of Spokane and its People
1973 A Contemporary Theater Allied Arts of Seattle, City of Seattle, and King County Park and Mildred Cook Alan Hovaness Lelooska Murray Morgan Port of Seattle Spokane Symphony Society Whitworth College
1972 Glen Alps Ralph Anderson Carnegie Center of the Arts Dr. Richard Daugherty and the Makah Tribal Council John and Anne Hauberg Philadelphia String Quartet Seattle Repertory Theater Spokane Civic Theater
1971 Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories Morris Graves Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington Robert Joffrey Helen Loggie Mr. and Mrs. Lowell T. Murray, Sr. Pacific Car and Foundry Foundation and the City of Renton Lawney Reyes Seattle Symphony Orchestra and the Musicians’ Association (Local 76) Tacoma School District #10
1970 Allied Arts Council of the Yakima Valley Boise Cascade Corporation and the Blue Mountain Committee of the Pacific Northwest Ballet Association Farm Credit Banks of Spokane Dr. Erna Gunther Rainier Brewing Company Seattle Opera Association Taholah Elementary School District #77 Mark Tobey James Washington. Jr.
1969 Atlantic Richfield Hanford Company Dr. Richard E. Fuller Olympia Brewing Company Seattle First National Bank Western Washington State College
1968 Eunice P. Ziegler
1967 City of Bellingham Dr. Angus L. Bowmer Pike Place Market Washington State Library
1966 PONCHO
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