Previous Recipients
2022 Recipients
- Georgia Museums, Bartow County
- Perry Area Historical Society, Houston County
- Thomasville Entertainment Foundation, Thomas County
- Heartbound Ministries, Fulton County
- Annie Greene, Troup County
- Dr. Jeffrey Green, Sumter County
- Alan Rothschild, Muscogee County
- Rev. Dr. Dwight D. Andrews, DeKalb & Fulton Counties
- Christopher Moses, Fulton County
- Tom Asher, Fulton County
2021 Recipients
- Didi Dunphy, Clarke County
- Sheffield Hale, Fulton CountyÂ
- Lyrika Holmes, Cobb County Â
- Donald L. Lovette, Liberty County
- Dad’s Garage Theatre, Fulton CountyÂ
- Georgia Council on Economic Education, Fulton County (Serving Statewide)
- Out of Hand Theater, Fulton County Â
- Synchronicity Theatre, Fulton CountyÂ
- The Hambidge Center, Rabun County
2020 Recipients
- Eddie Bennett, Decatur
- Brian Brown, Fitzgerald
- Kevin Cole, Atlanta
- Jim Hammond, Atlanta
- Yvonne Grovner, Sapelo Island
- William S. Morris III, Augusta
- Susan Majette Murphy, Darien
- Robert Spano, Atlanta
- Blue Ridge Mountain Arts Association, Blue Ridge
- Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon
2019 Recipients
- Lucinda W. Bunnen, Atlanta
- Common Good Atlanta, Atlanta
- Hermina Glass-Hill, Kennesaw and Midway
- Christopher Johnson, Cuthbert and Columbus
- Madison-Morgan Conservancy, Madison-Morgan County
- Jessye Norman School of the Arts, Augusta and Richmond County
- Kathy Prescott and Grady Thrasher, Athens and Atlanta
- Rick McKnight, Columbus
- Mercer University Press, Macon
- Angelica Hairston, Atlanta
2018 Recipients
- Athens Ciné, Athens
- Pearl Cleage, Atlanta
- James S. Crisp, Macon
- Janice Faircloth, Thomasville
- Friends of Historic Jekyll Island, Jekyll Island
- Azira Hill, Atlanta
- Historic Oakland Foundation, Atlanta
- Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection, Atlanta
- National Black Arts Festival, Atlanta
- Ellen Thompson, Dalton
2017 Recipients
- Karen Berman, Milledgeville
- Valerie Boyd, Athens
- William Eiland, Athens
- Gilmer Arts and Heritage Association, Ellijay
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Art Program, Atlanta
- Virginia Hepner, Atlanta
- Kenny Leon, Atlanta
- The Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts, Valdosta
- Pearl McHaney, Decatur
- National Infantry Museum Foundation, Columbus
- Janisse Ray, Reidsville
- Lois Reitzes, Atlanta
2016 Recipients
- Libby Bailey, Macon
- Susan V. Booth, Atlanta
- Brenda Bynum, Atlanta
- Jerry and Kathy Chappelle, Watkinsville
- James C. Cobb, Athens
- Dale Dyer, Blue Ridge
- Foxfire, Mountain City
- Pasaquan Preservation Society, Buena Vista
- Joyce Perdue-Smith, Rome
- Mausiki Scales, Atlanta
- Slow Exposures, Zebulon
- Telfair Museums, Savannah
- Robert Webb, Dalton
2015 Recipients
- Aurora Theatre, Lawrenceville
- Beach Institute, Savannah
- Bowdon Area Historical Society, Bowdon
- Lisa Cremin, Atlanta
- Lee Harper, Atlanta
- Alvin D. Jackson, Savannah
- Macon Arts Alliance, Macon
- Museum School of Avondale Estates, Avondale Estates
- Paula Peace, Atlanta
- Steve Quesinberry, Newnan
- Betty Foy Sanders, Statesboro
- Larry Walker, Atlanta
2014 Recipients
- Kay Beck, Atlanta
- Center for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta
- Colquitt County Arts Center, Moultrie
- Linda Crowe Chesnut, Athens
- John Ferling, Carrollton
- Fox Theatre Institute, Atlanta
- Melissa Fay Greene, Atlanta
- Tim Howard, Chatsworth
- Marianne Lambert, Atlanta
- Chuck Leavell, Dry Branch
- Frank Maloy, Tifton
- Moving in the Spirit, Atlanta
- Merryll Penson, Athens
- United Shape Note Singers, Atlanta
- Allan Vigil, Morrow
2013 Recipients
- Activities Council of Thomson, Thomson
- Atlanta Ballet, Atlanta
- Syd Blackmarr, Tifton
- Brenau University, Gainesville
- Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta
- Freedom Singers, Albany
- Leslie Gordon, Atlanta
- Fred and Dinah Gretsch, Savannah
- Paul Hudson, Clarkston
- Meridian Herald, Atlanta
- Carl Purdy, Augusta
- Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, Athens
- Douglas Scott, Atlanta
2012 Recipients
- Arthur Berry, Albany
- Annette Cone-Skelton, Atlanta
- Colonel Bruce Hampton, Atlanta
- Akbar Imhotep, Atlanta
- Thomas Lux, Atlanta
- Philip Moulthrop, Marietta
- Paul Pierce, Columbus
- Amy Lotson Roberts, St. Simons Island
- Savannah Music Festival, Savannah
- Melvin Steely, Carrollton
- Kay and Dean Swanson, Cornelia
- Thomaston-Upson Archives, Thomaston
1986-2011 Recipients
- Michael F. Adams, Athens
- Carrie Moore Adamson, Augusta
- Emma Adler, Savannah
- Delores Aldridge, Atlanta
- Walter Allen, Athens
- Anne Dismukes Amerson, Dahlonega
- Nancy Anderson, Macon
- Athens Regional Library, Athens
- Atlanta History Center, Atlanta
- Auburn Avenue Research Library, Atlanta
- Augusta Museum of History, Augusta
- Cornelia Walker Bailey, Sapelo Island
- Sophia Bamford, Tignall
- Brenda S. Banks, Atlanta
- Marcellus Barksdale, Atlanta
- Craig Barrow, III, Savannah
- Numan Bartley, Athens
- Charles Donald Beall, Columbus
- Malcolm Bell Jr., Savannah
- Carmen Lombardero Bernal, Buford
- Janice Biggers, Columbus
- Alfonso Biggs, Columbus
- Joyce Blackburn, St. Simons Island
- Adrienne Bond, Macon
- David Bottoms, Atlanta
- Deborah Ann Sieg Bowen, Blackshear
- William Breman Jewish Museum and Heritage Center, Atlanta
- John Robert Brewer, Ailey
- Jean Bridges, Swainsboro
- Annette Brock, Savannah
- Mary Ellen Brooks, Athens
- Frank Brown, Columbus
- Hugh Brown, Savannah
- Martine W. Brownley, Atlanta
- Mary Alice Budge, Columbus
- Beth S. Burney, Atlanta
- John Burrison, Atlanta
- Rudolph P. Byrd, Atlanta
- James Caldwell, Macon
- LeeAnn Caldwell, Augusta
- Gordon Carper, Rome
- Virginia Spencer Carr, Atlanta
- Dan Carter, Atlanta
- Rosalynn Carter, Plains
- Edward Cashin, Augusta
- Cullen Chambers, Tybee Island
- Raymond Chambers, Bainbridge
- The Chattahoochee Review, Atlanta
- Gwendolyn Cheatham, College Park
- Mozelle Clemmons, Savannah
- Coastal Georgia Historical Society, St. Simons Island
- Judith Ortiz Cofer, Louisville and Athens
- James Edgar Coleman, Fort Gaines
- Kenneth Coleman, Athens
- Cook County Historical Society, Adel
- Dale Couch, Decatur
- Jacque Coxe, Roswell
- Betty Jean Craige, Athens
- Timothy Crimmins, Atlanta
- Caroline Crittenden, Sautee Nacochee
- Lennet Daigle, Dahlonega
- Rosemary Daniell, Savannah
- Davenport House Museum, Savannah
- DeKalb County Public Library, Decatur
- Doris A. Derby, Atlanta
- Yvonne deWright, Atlanta
- Helen Parker Dougherty, Atlanta
- Sarah O. Dunaway, Atlanta
- Robert Durand, Macon
- Thomas Dyer, Athens
- Rita Folse Elliott, Rincon
- Charles Elmore, Savannah
- Glenn T. Eskew, Madison
- Frances Evans, Young Harris
- Maurice and the late Anne Farabee, Blairsville
- Jane Feiler, Savannah
- Gary Fink, Atlanta
- James Flannery, Atlanta
- Fort Frederica Association, St. Simons Island
- Edith Foster, Carrollton
- Charlotte Hawkins Frazier, Columbus
- Funk Heritage Center of Reinhardt College, Waleska
- Fred Fussell, Columbus
- Billie Davis Gaines, Atlanta
- Peggy Galis, Athens
- Charles H. Geiger, Jasper
- Georgia Archives, Morrow
- Georgia Historical Quarterly, Savannah
- Georgia Historical Society, Savannah
- Georgia Junior Classical League, Atlanta
- Georgia Power Company, Atlanta
- The Georgia Review, Athens
- Georgia Sea Island Singers
- Georgia Women of Achievement, Macon
- Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, Athens
- Hugh Stiles Golson, Savannah
- Sarah Gordon, Milledgeville
- Anna Harvin Grant, Atlanta
- Louis T. Griffith, Athens
- James Gustafson, Atlanta
- Jack Hadley, Thomasville
- O. Ben Harris, Atlanta
- Heritage Education Program, Georgia Trust, Atlanta
- Dr. Jonathan Hershey, Rome
- High Museum of Art, Atlanta
- Kay Hightower, Thomaston
- James L. Hill, Albany
- Historic Augusta, Augusta
- Historic Chattahoochee Commission, LaGrange
- Cathy Milner Hodge, Athens
- Robynn Greer Holland, Locust Grove
- George Hooks, Americus
- Alton Hornsby, Atlanta
- Charles Hudson, Jr., Athens
- Karen Huebner, Atlanta
- Joan Huffman, Macon
- Lucy Cline Huie, Jonesboro
- Gwen Hutcheson, Athens
- John C. Inscoe, Athens
- Edwin Jackson, Athens
- John Wesley Jacobs Jr., Gainesville
- Joseph Jacobs, Atlanta
- Joy Jinks, Colquitt
- Ethelene Dyer Jones, Milledgeville and Blue Ridge
- Mary Alice Jordan, Sandersville
- Thornton Jordan, Columbus
- John Kay, Young Harris
- Terry Kay, Athens
- Tom Key, Atlanta
- Cary Knapp, Brunswick
- John Knapp, Atlanta
- Clara Krug, Statesboro
- Clifford Kuhn, Atlanta
- Clason Kyle, Columbus
- Mills B. Lane IV, Savannah
- Richard LaFleur, Athens
- Christine Lambert, Madison
- Lewis Larson, Carrollton
- W.W. Law, Savannah
- Ann Lewis, Atlanta
- Stanley Lindberg, Athens
- Worth Long, Atlanta
- Ellie Loudermilk, Perry
- John Lupold, Columbus
- Elizabeth Lyon, Atlanta
- Kemp Mabry, Statesboro
- Joseph Mahan, Columbus
- Andrew Manis, Macon
- Margaret Mitchell House and Museum, Atlanta
- Patricia Marks, Valdosta
- James P. Marshall, Jr., Eatonton
- Herman “Skip” Mason, Ellenwood
- Massie Heritage Interpretation Center, Savannah
- Linda Matthews, Atlanta
- Louise McBee, Athens
- Ann E. McCleary, Carrollton
- Arthur J. McClung, Columbus
- Dorothy McClure, Columbus
- Thomas L. McHaney, Decatur
- McIntosh County Shouters, Bolden
- Robert McMath, Atlanta
- Luetta Milledge, Savannah
- Erick Montgomery, Augusta
- Daniel Moore, Atlanta
- Morris Museum of Art, Augusta
- Howard Morrison Jr., Savannah
- Chris Moser, Atlanta
- Gary Moss, Atlanta
- Sue M. Moye, Lumpkin
- Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins
- Judy Nail, Columbus
- National Humanities Faculty
- Leon Lawson Neel, Thomasville
- Dorothy Olson, Atlanta
- The Paula Gordon Show: Conversations at the Leading Edge, Atlanta
- Gregory B. Paxton, Atlanta
- Virginia E. Peebles, Columbus
- Margaret Pepperdene, Decatur
- Lela M. Phillips, Albany
- Plains Historical Preservation Trust, Plains
- Adelaide Ponder, Madison
- Robert S. Poydasheff, Columbus
- Delma Presley, Statesboro
- Paul M. Pressly, Savannah
- Eugenia Price, St. Simons Island
- Radio Free Georgia Broadcasting, Atlanta
- Juan Ramirez, Atlanta
- Giriraj Rao, Alpharetta
- Veula Rhodes, Albany
- Ritz Cultural Center, Albany
- Sarah Robbins, Kennesaw
- Vivian Robinson, Augusta
- Janice White Sikes Rogers, Atlanta
- Arthur Rosenbaum, Athens
- Jacqueline Rouse, Atlanta
- Hugh Ruppersburg, Athens
- Frank Saunders, Statesboro
- Frank Schnell, Columbus
- Robert Lee Scott Jr., Warner Robins
- Thomas A. Scott, Kennesaw
- Bettie Sellers, Young Harris
- Clayton M. Shotwell, Augusta
- Mark Silverman, Atlanta
- Scott Smith, Savannah
- Betty Sanders Snyder, Milledgeville
- B. Phinizy Spalding, Athens
- Mary E. Stakes, Athens
- John Stone, Atlanta
- Buddy Sullivan, Richmond Hill
- Ron Swofford, Rex
- R. J. Taylor Foundation, Atlanta
- Carmen Chaves Tesser, Athens
- Kenneth H. Thomas, Jr., Decatur
- Eloise Bailey Thompson, St. Mary’s
- Kathleen Thompson, Blue Ridge
- Three Rivers Regional Library, Brunswick
- Troup County Historical Society, LaGrange
- University of Georgia Press, Athens
- Eugene Walker, Atlanta
- John C. Waters, Athens
- Susan Wehling, Valdosta
- Edward Weldon, Atlanta
- Eleanor Torrey West, Ossabaw Island
- Westville Historic Handicrafts, Lumpkin
- Susie W. Wheeler, Cassville/Cartersville
- Lisa White, Savannah
- Phillip Lee Williams, Watkinsville
- William “Billy” Winn, Columbus
- Annette Wise, Plains
- Sandra Worsham, Milledgeville
- Writers Workshop Conference, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta