The Arkansas Arts Council needs your help in celebrating the arts in Arkansas! Please consider nominating an individual and/or business for the 2019 Governor’s Arts Awards! Who do you know who should be honored in the following categories?
- ARTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AWARD
- ARTS IN EDUCATION AWARD
- CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP OF THE ARTS AWARD
- FOLKLIFE AWARD
- INDIVIDUAL ARTIST AWARD
- PATRON AWARD
- LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Deadline to submit a nomination is Friday, September 7. Awards will be presented in the spring of 2019. Questions: Call Cheri Leffew at (501) 324-9767 or email cheri.leffew@arkansas.gov.
Is your Nominee Eligible?
Nominees must be current Arkansas residents or Arkansas-based corporations or organizations.
Current Arkansas Arts Council members, staff of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, or their immediate families, and selection committee members are not eligible to nominate or be nominated. Posthumous nominations will not be accepted. Past recipients are not eligible in the category for which they have received a previous Governor’s Arts Award.
• ARTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AWARD: A civic leader who has taken a leadership role in creating an environment for artists and the arts to flourish in his/her local community. Potential nominees include arts administrators, elected public officials, and community volunteers.
• ARTS IN EDUCATION AWARD: An individual or organization that has made an outstanding contribution in integrating the arts into the educational curriculum.
• CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP OF THE ARTS AWARD: An Arkansas for-profit business that has made a significant contribution in support of the arts in this state. This does not include foundations associated with for-profit businesses, stand-alone foundations or 501 (c)(3) nonprofits.
• FOLKLIFE AWARD: An individual or group that has made outstanding contributions in the performance or creation of traditional arts and/or folkways in Arkansas and has contributed to the perpetuation of these traditions.
• INDIVIDUAL ARTIST AWARD: An artist active in the field of architecture, contemporary crafts, design, film, literature, performing arts or visual arts who has made significant contributions to his/her art form.
• PATRON AWARD: An individual or family who has made significant philanthropic contributions to the development of the arts.
• LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: An artist or group whose contributions to the arts over a lifetime have fostered significant recognition, or an art patron whose lifetime of dedication to the development and support of the arts will sustain the arts beyond his/her lifetime.
