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2010

• Barkley L. Hendricks - visual artist
• Connecticut Humanities Council
• ESPN
• Diane Smith - journalist, talk show host and author

2009

• Jacques Pepin - chef and author
• Philip Roth - author
• Campbell Scott - actor and voice artist
• Smith Edwards Architects

2008

• Professor Joan D. Hedrick - historian, educator and biographer
• Vita West Muir - founder of the Litchfield Jazz Festival
• Gene Wilder - actor
• Michael Wilson - stage director

2007

• William Morris Meredith, Poet
• Robert A.M. Stern, Architect
• Barry Levinson, Screenwriter and film director
• Dr. Robert D. Ballard, Underwater archaeologist

2006

No awards given

2005

• Doug Hughes, Theater and film director
• Sam Waterston, Actor
• Jeanine Basinger, Film historian and educator
• Westport Country Playhouse
• Tina Weymouth & Chris Frantz, Musicians

2004

• Antiquarian & Landmarks Society
• John Canning, Decorative artist and art restorer
• Connecticut Public Broadcasting, Inc.
• Florence Griswold Museum
• A.R. Gurney, Playwright and novelist
• Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
• Westport Schools Permanent Art Collection

2003

• Concora/CT Choral Artists
• Grumbling Gryphons Traveling Children’s Theatre
• Donald Margulies, Playwright
• Ed Johnetta Miller, Fiber artist
• James Naughton, Actor

2002

• Chamber Music Plus
• Casimer Michalczyk, Sculptor
• Yale School of Drama Yale Repertory Theatre

2001

No awards given

2000

• Elizabeth Gordon Chandler, Sculptor and founder of the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts
• J. D. McClatchy, Poet and literary critic
• Philip Johnson, Architect
• Willie Ruff, Hornist and bassist
• Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts

1999

• Anthony Braxton, Composer and musician
• Judy Dworin, Teacher of dance and arts educator
• Elizabeth MacDonald, Potter and sculptor
• The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center

1998

• Antonio Frasconi, Woodcut artist
• Helena Hernmarck, Trompe-l’oeil weaver
• Wally Lamb, Novelist
• Moses Pendleton, Choreographer, co-founder of Pilobolus and founder of MOMIX

1997

• Paul Cadmus, Visual artist
• Alison Chase, Choreographer and co-founder of Pilobolus
• John Hollander, Poet and literary critic
• Aldo Parisot, Cellist

1996

No awards given

1995

No awards given

1994

No awards given

1993

• Renamed Governor’s Arts Awards
• Annie Dillard, Author
• The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Company
• Ted Hershey, Danseur
• Vincent Scully, Architectural historian

1992

• Frank Rich, Jr., Founder of Stamford Center for the Arts
• Ann Petry, Author
• Peter Good, Graphic designer and illustrator
• Robert Anderson, Portrait painter
• Audubon Arts District

1991

• Paul Brown, Jazz bassist
• Peter DeVries, Editor and novelist
• Richard Hallinan, Arts administrator (Downtown Cabaret Theater, Bridgeport)
• Jane Henson, Puppeteer
• Martha Myers, Teacher of dance

1990

• Gary M. Young, Contributor to the state arts council movement in US. Executive director of the CT Commission on the Arts from 1981-1990
• Young Audiences of Connecticut
• Xerox Corporation
• Marilyn Nelson Waniek, Poet
• Gerald Tirozzi, Arts in education leader/advocate
• Skitch Henderson, Pianist, conductor and composer

1989

• Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract expressionist painter
• Mark Lamos, Theater and opera director
• John Russell, Art critic
• Gary Karr, Bassist

1988

• Paul Winter, Saxophonist
• Aetna Life & Casualty
• The Hartford Courant
• Frank Ballard, Puppeteer

1987

• Cleve Gray, Abstract expressionist painter
• Lucille Lortel, Producer and actress
• Ernestine Stodell, Dancer
• Dave Brubeck, Jazz pianist and composer

1986

• Betty Jones, Singer
• Michael Price, Arts administrator (Goodspeed Musicals, East Haddam)
• James Laughlin, Poet
• Barbara Tuchman, Historian and author

1985

No awards given

1984

• William Styron, Novelist and essayist
• Wadsworth Atheneum
• City Spirit Artists
• Champion International

1983

• Willian Benton Art Museum
• Arvin Brown, Theater and television director
• Greater Hartford Arts Council
• Jackie McLean, Jazz saxophonist and co-founder of Artists Collective, Hartford
• James Merrill, Poet

1982

• Victor Borge, Musician and humorist
• Brookfield Craft Center
• Gerry Mulligan, Saxophonist
• Lloyd Richards, Actor, director and dean of Yale School of Drama
• Margo Rose, Puppeteer
• United Technologies Corp

1981

• Morris Carnovsky, Actor
• Community Renewal Team
• Craftery Gallery
• Curbstone Press
• Anthony S. Keller, Advocate for creation of state arts councils. Executive director of CT Commission on the Arts from 1966-1981
• Pilobolus
• Maurice Sendak, Author and illustrator of children’s books
• Cesar Pelli, Architect

1980

• Artists Collective
• Peter Blume, Painter and sculptor
• Lucia Chase, Dancer and actress
• Eva LeGallienne, Actress
• Newton Schenck, Founder of New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre
• Robert Penn Warren, Poet and novelist

1979

• Bowen-Peters School of Dance
• Malcolm Cowley, Literary artist
• Ralph Kirkpatrick, Musician
• Meriden Gravure Company
• Ruben Nakian, Sculptor
• National Theatre of the Deaf
• New Britain Museum of Art
• Menen Osario

1978

• Marian Anderson, Singer
• Robert Motherwell, Painter and printmaker
• Lippincott, Inc.,
• Public sculpture fabricators Peace Train Foundation
• Paul LeMay, Fiddler and founder of the New England Fiddle Contest
• Patricia Edwards/Valley Arts Center
• Juan Fuentes, Photographer
• Mildred Dunnock, Actress
• Arthur Miller, Playwright
• Moshe Paranov, Pianist and founder of Hartt School of Music, Hartford
• Mary Hunter Wolf, Theater director and producer