2022
Joy Harjo
Lifetime Achievement Award
Robert F. Smith
Philanthropy in the Arts Award
For Freedoms
Marina Kellen French Outstanding Contributions to the Arts Award
The Gordon Parks Foundation
Arts Education Award
Darren Criss
Ted Arison Young Artist Award
2019
Luchita Hurtado
Carolyn Clark Powers Lifetime Achievement Award
The Honorable Earle I. Mack
Philanthropy in the Arts Award
Ben Folds
Marina Kellen French Outstanding Contributions to the Arts Award
CMA Foundation
Arts Education Award
Ben Platt
Ted Arison Young Artist Award
2018
Mavis Staples
Carolyn Clark Powers Lifetime Achievement Award
Ann Ziff
Philanthropy in the Arts Award
Ai Weiwei
Marina Kellen French Outstanding Contributions to the Arts Award
Alliance of Young Artists & Writers, Inc.
Arts Education Award
Justin Peck
Ted Arison Young Artist Award
2017
Clive Davis
Carolyn Clark Powers Lifetime Achievement Award
Gael Neeson and Stefan Edlis
Philanthropy in the Arts Award
Thelma Golden
Outstanding Contributions to the Arts Award
William Lehr, Jr.
Legacy Award
Studio in a School
Arts Education Award
Andra Day
Ted Arison Young Artist Award
2016
Carolyn Clark Powers Lifetime Achievement Award
Doug Aitken
Outstanding Contributions to the Arts Award
Susan and David Goode
Legacy Award
The Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation
Arts Education Award
Esperanza Spalding
Ted Arison Young Artist Award
Roselyne Chroman Swig
Philanthrophy in the Arts Award
2015
Sophia Loren
Carolyn Clark Powers Lifetime Achievement Award
Lady Gaga
Young Artist Award
Herbie Hancock
Outstanding Contributions to the Arts Award
Alice Walton
Arts Education Award
Joan and Irwin Jacobs
Philanthropy in the Arts Award
Maria Bell
Legacy Award
2014
Richard Serra
Lifetime Achievement Award
Vicki and Roger Sant
Eli and Edythe Broad Award for Philanthropy in the Arts
P.S. ARTS
Arts Education Award
American Legion Auxiliary
Outstanding Contributions to the Arts Award
Madeleine H. Berman
Legacy Award
David Hallberg
Bell Family Foundation Young Artist Award
2013
John and Mary Pappajohn
Eli and Edythe Broad Award for Philanthropy in the Arts
B.B. King
Isabella and Theodor Dalenson Lifetime Achievement Award
Joel Shapiro
Outstanding Contributions to the Arts
Alberto Carvalho
Arts Education Award
Dakota Fanning
Bell Family Foundation Young Artist Award
2012
Paul G. Allen
Eli and Edythe Broad Award for Philanthropy in the Arts
James Rosenquist
Isabella and Theodor Dalenson Lifetime Achievement Award
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Outstanding Contributions to the Arts Award
Josh Groban
Bell Family Foundation Young Artist Award
Lin Arison
Arts Education Award
AXA Art Insurance Corporation
Corporate Citizenship in the Arts Award
2011
Frank Stella
Isabella and Theodor Dalenson Lifetime Achievement Award
Jenny Holzer
Outstanding Contributions to the Arts
President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
Arts Education Award
Gabourey Sidibe
Bell Family Foundation Young Artist Award
Beverley Taylor Sorenson
Eli and Edythe Broad Award for Philanthropy in the Arts
Wells Fargo & Company
Corporate Citizenship in the Arts Award
2010
Angela Lansbury
Lifetime Achievement Award
Martha Rivers Ingram
Eli and Edythe Broad Award for Philanthropy in the Arts
Herb Alpert
Outstanding Contributions to the Arts Award
Kate and Laura Mulleavy, Rodarte
Maria and Bill Bell Young Artist Award
2009
Robert Redford
Lifetime Achievement Award
Salman Rushdie
Kitty Carlisle Hart Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Arts
Ed Ruscha
Artistic Excellence Award
Sidney Harman
Frederick R. Weisman Award for Philanthropy in the Arts
Anne Finucane, Bank of America
Corporate Citizenship in the Arts Award
2008
Dame Julie Andrews
Lifetime Achievement Award
J. Barry Griswell, Principal Financial Group
Corporate Citizenship in the Arts Award
Yoko Ono
Kitty Carlisle Hart Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Arts
Joan W. Harris
Frederick R. Weisman Award for Philanthropy in the Arts
Phil Ramone
Arts Advocacy Award
Kehinde Wiley
Young Artist Award for Artistic Excellence
2007
Wallis Annenberg
Frederick R. Weisman Award for Philanthropy in the Arts
Ellsworth Kelly
Lifetime Achievement Award
Music Industry and NAMM
Corporate Citizenship in the Arts Award
Anna Deavere Smith
Kitty Carlisle Hart Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Arts
United States Conference of Mayors
Special Recognition in honor of its 75th Anniversary
John Legend
Young Artist Award for Artistic Excellence
2006
Aretha Franklin
Lifetime Achievement Award
Jeff Koons
Artistic Achievement Award
Kitty Carlisle Hart
Special Recognition for Outstanding Contributions to the Arts
Sheila Johnson
Frederick R. Weisman Award for Philanthropy in the Arts
United Technologies
Corporate Citizenship in the Arts Award
Jake Gyllenhaal
Young Artist Award for Artistic Excellence
2005
John Baldessari
Lifetime Achievement Award
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Kitty Carlisle Hart Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Arts
Eli Broad
Frederick R. Weisman Award for Philanthropy in the Arts
Pierre Dulaine & Yvonne Marceau, American Ballroom Theater
Arts Education Award
Target Corporation
Corporate Citizenship in the Arts Award
Kerry Washington
Young Artist Award for Artistic Excellence
The National Endowment for the Arts
Special Recognition in Honor of the 40th Anniversary of the NEA
2004
Raymond Nasher
Philanthropy in the Arts
A.G. Lafley, Procter & Gamble
Corporate Citizenship in the Arts
Chuck Close
Artistic Leadership and Arts Advocacy
Paul Taylor
Lifetime Achievement
Mena Suvari
Young Artist Award for Artistic Excellence
William C. Bassell, Principal
Special Arts Education Award
Presented by the New York City Public Schools