Past-Year Winners of Governor’s Arts Awards

                                    1979 Governor's Arts Awards Recipients

·         Dabney Stuart, poet and professor of English at Washington & Lee University

·         Isaiah Jackson, conductor

·         the Lynchburg Fine Arts Center

·         Nell Blaine, painter

·         Marian Van Landingham, founder of the Torpedo Factory Arts Center

·         the Richmond Symphony

·         the Virginia Opera

·         the Barter Theatre

·         Catherine Filene Shouse, founder of Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts

·         Leslie Cheek, Jr., director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

·         Miller & Rhoads Department Store, supporter of the arts

·         Thalhimer's Department Store, supporter of the arts

                             1985 Governor's Arts Awards Recipients         

·         Jewett Campbell, painter and educator

·         Janette Carter and the Carter Family Fold

·         the Chrysler Museum

·         Sydney and Frances Lewis

·         Dr. Undine Smith Moore, composer and educator

·         Thea Musgrave, composer

·         the Fairfax Symphony

·         Peter Taylor, author

·         CSX Corporation, supporter of the arts

·         Norfolk Southern Corporation, supporter of the arts

                             2000 Governor's Arts Awards Recipients

·         Galax Moose Lodge #733, sponsor of the Old Fiddlers Convention

·         George Garrett, Charlottesville, novelist, essayist, poet, and teacher

·         Dr. Nikki Giovanni, Christiansburg, poet and teacher

·         Adolphus Hailstork, Virginia Beach, composer

·         Philip Morris Family of Companies, patrons of the arts

·         Theresa Pollak, Richmond, painter and founder of the VCU School of the Arts

·         Daisy Portuondo, Wise, impresario and arts patron

·         Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, artists retreat

·         Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Vienna