Recipients

Vicky Holt Takamine

2024 Recipient

Thelma Golden

2023 Recipient

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar

2022 Recipient

Sonia Sanchez

2021 Recipient

Ava DuVernay

2020 Recipient

Walter Hood

2019 Recipient

Gustavo Dudamel

2018 Recipient

Meredith Monk

2017 Recipient

Elizabeth LeCompte

2016 Recipient

Suzan-Lori Parks

2015 Recipient

Maya Lin

2014 Recipient

Spike Lee

2013 Recipient

Anna Deavere Smith

2012 Recipient

Trisha Brown

2011 Recipient

Chinua Achebe

2010 Recipient

Pete Seeger

2009 Recipient

Robert Redford

2008 Recipient

Laurie Anderson

2007 Recipient

Shirin Neshat

2006 Recipient

Peter Sellars

2005 Recipient

Ornette Coleman

2004 Recipient

Bill T. Jones

2003 Recipient

Lloyd Richards

2002 Recipient

Jennifer Tipton

2001 Recipient

Merce Cunningham

2000 Recipient

Arthur Miller

1999 Recipient

Isabel Allende

1998 Recipient

Bob Dylan

1997 Recipient

Robert Wilson

1996 Recipient

Ingmar Bergman

1995 Recipient

Frank Gehry

1994 Recipient