Legacy Artists
Bruce Crownover
Betsy Ritz Friebert

Educators | K–12
Erin LaBonte
Kelly Frederick Mizer

Educator | College/University
Leslie Fedorchuk

Exhibitions
Trout Museum of Art
A Creative Place: Art from Northeastern Wisconsin 1940 to the Present (2025), curated by Annemarie Sawkins

Walker’s Point Center for the Arts
Word Wall / Pared Palabras (2025), curated by CK Ledesma Borrero with a team of seven co-curators

Arts Writing
Rachel Hausmann Schall

Emerging Artist
Chad Alexander Matha

Community Arts Advocate
Brandon Minga

Legacy Awards
Carol Emmons and Tory Folliard

Educator Award (K–12)
Daniel Klewer

Educator Award (College/University)
Kristy Deetz

Arts Writing Award
Tom Lidtke and Annemarie Sawkins, for A Creative Place: The History of Wisconsin Art

Exhibition Awards
Portrait Society Gallery for Art Against the Odds: Wisconsin Prison Art (2023), co-curated by PSG Director Debra Brehmer and Gallery Manager, Paul Salsieder in collaboration with Wisconsin’s incarcerated artists

Museum of Wisconsin Art for Legends of Drag: Portraits by Harry James Hanson and Devin Antheus (2022), curated by Assistant Curator Ally Wilber in collaboration with artists Harry James Hanson, Devin Antheus, and America’s legendary drag queens

Community Arts Advocate Award
David Wells

Emerging Artist Award
Phoenix Brown

Legacy Award (Lifetime Achievement)    
Jack Damer
Freida High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis

Educator Award (K-12)
Frank Juárez, Sheboygan North High School

Educator Award (College or University)
Leslie Vansen, Peck School of the Arts, UW–Milwaukee

Exhibition Award
John Michael Kohler Art Preserve

Community Arts Advocate Award
Karin Wolf

Arts Writing Award
Debra Brehmer

Emerging Artist Award
Rae Minoka Skenandore (Yehsani>saks)

Legacy Award
Anne Kingsbury

Educator Award (K-12)
Patricia Frederick
St. Pius XI Catholic High School, Milwaukee

Educator Award (College or University)
Kim Cosier
Peck School of the Arts, UW–Milwaukee

Exhibition Award
Racine Art Museum | 2019 Artist Fellowship Exhibition
Represented by Lena Vigna & Bruce Pepich

Community Arts Advocate Award
Polly Morris

Arts Writing Award
Shane McAdams

Emerging Artist Award
Ariana Vaeth

Tom Bamberger
David Becker
Sylvia Fein
Dean Jensen
Ken Loeber
Dona Look
Charles Thwaites
Max Yela

Anne Katz
Charles Radtke
David Damkoehler
Eleanor Moty
Gerhard Miller
Jill Sebastian
Kathy Kelsey Foley
Lydia Ely
Marvin Lipofsky
Terrance Coffman

Bob Brue
David Frances Barry
Dudley Huppler
J. Shimon & J. Lindemann
JoAnna Poehlmann
Josephus Farmer
Lois Ehlert
Lois Ireland
Marshall Glasier
Sister Thomasita Fessler
The Kohler  Foundation, Inc.Walter Nottingham

Audrey Handler
David V. Holmes
Della Wells
Edward S. Curtis
Mark W. Mulhern
Martha Glowacki
Ruth St. John West

Guest Speaker: Carl Corey, Photographer with “A Sense of Place”

Adolph Rosenblatt
Anne Haberland Emerson
Charles Allis Art Museum
Guido Brink
John Balsley
Lawrence Rathsack
Lucia Stern
Lynda Barry
Mathias Wernernus
Paul Donhauser
Russell Bowman
Tom Loeser
Wisconsin Designer Crafts Council
Wisconsin Historical Society
Wisconsin Union Galleries

Guest Speaker: Tom Lidtke, Director Emeritus of MOWA

Anton (Tony) Rajer
Denis Kitchen
Evelyn Patricia Terry
Frances Myers
Fred Fenster
Jean Stamsta
Karen Johnson Boyd
Kent Anderson
Native American petroglyphs, pictographs & Indian Mounds
Norbert Kox
Prophet William Blackmon
Simon Sparrow
Terese Agnew
William Weege

Guest Speaker: Tom Jones, Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

Arthur Thrall
Bruce W. Pepich
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein
Fred Smith
Jane Brite
Lee Weiss
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
Tom Every

Abraham Cohn
Carl Holty
Charlotte Partridge
Dean Meeker
Fred Berman
Frederick Wilhelm Heine
Karl Priebe
Layton School of Art
Milwaukee Art Museum
Miriam Frink
Roy Staab
Vinnie Ream
William Gerdts

Don Reitz
Gary John Gresl
George Raab
Gerrit Van W. Sinclair
James Schwalbach
Joseph Friebert
Peter C. Merrill
Ray Gloeckler
Richard Lippold

Barbara Brown Lee
Cyril Colnik
David Lenz
Francesco Spicuzza
Jane Bradley Pettit
John Colt
Mary Nohl
Peg Bradley

Alfred Sessler
Fred Stonehouse
George Niedecken
Georgia O’Keeffe
Panorama Painters, Late 19th Century
Robert von Neumann
Ruth DeYoung Kohler
Ruth Grotenrath
Truman Lowe

John Wilde
Louis Mayer
Santos Zingale
Schomer Lichtner
Museum of Wisconsin Art, (Formerly the West Bend Art Museum)
Tom Lidtke
Tom Uttech
Warrington Colescott

Brooks Stevens
Edmund Lewandowski
Emily Groom
Gustave Moeller
Helen Farnsworth Mears
Henry H. Bennett
James Auer
James Watrous
Owen Gromme
Richard Lorenz
Susan Frackelton

Aaron Bohrod
Carl von Marr
Edward Steichen
Elsa Ulbricht
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frederick Layton
Harvey Littleton
Henry Vianden
John Steuart Curry
Porter Butts
Wisconsin Visual Artists, Formerly Known as Wisconsin Painters & Sculptors