The Cleveland Arts Prize

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Special Citations for Distinguished Service to the Arts

1963 Russell and Rowena Jelliffe
         Founders and Directors,
         Karamu House

1964 Alla Wakefield
         Founder, Publisher, and Editor,
         Fine Arts Magazine

1967 May Hill Arbuthnot
         Associate Professor Emeritus,
         Western Reserve University

1967 Martha J. Joseph
         Cultural Leader

1967 F. Karl Grossman
         Founder and Conductor,
         The Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra

1968 Arthur Loesser
         Pianist, Author and Teacher

1969 Richard M. Gensert
         Structural Engineer

1969 Dr. Jerome Gross (posthumous)
         Violinist, Surgeon,
         Friend of Music

1969 Eugenia Thornton Silver
         Literary Critic,
         Friend of Literature

1971 Edris Eckhardt
         Pioneer in Glass Sculpture

1971 Louis Lane
         Resident Conductor,
         The Cleveland Orchestra

1971 Sherman E. Lee
         Director,
         The Cleveland Museum of Art

1972 Victor Babin (posthumous)
         Director,
         The Cleveland Institute of Music

1973 Robert Conrad
         Vice President and Program Manager,
         WCLV

1974 Walter Blodgett
         Organist, Conductor, Curator,
         The Cleveland Museum of Art

1974 Janet Moore
         Teacher, Curator,
         The Cleveland Museum of Art

1974 Alexander C. Robinson III
         Architect and Civic Leader

1977 Ellen Johnson
         Professor,
         Oberlin College, Author

1977 Anne and Robert Levine
         Founders, The Publix Book Mart

1977 Wallace G. Teare
         Architect and City Planner

1978 William M. Milliken (posthumous)
         Director,
         The Cleveland Museum of Art

1978 George Szell (posthumous)
         Music Director,
         The Cleveland Orchestra

1979 Walter Anderson
         National Endowment for the Arts,
         Catalyst for Support of Music

1979 Jane Fallon
         Gallery Director and Art Spokesperson

1979 Robert Gaede
         Architect, Historical Preservationist

1979 Joan Mondale
         Wife of the U.S. Vice President,
         Advocate of the Arts

1979 Robert C. Weiskopf
         Enlightened Patron of Music

1980 Edward B. Henning
         Chief Curator of Modern Art,
         The Cleveland Museum of Art

1980 Lorin Maazel
         Music Director,
         The Cleveland Orchestra

1980 Richard Oberlin
         Director,
         The Cleveland Play House

1982 Betty Cope
         General Manager,
         WVIZ-TV 25

1983 Dorothy Fuldheim
         News Commentator and Author

1983 Vincent Dowling
         Producing Director,
         Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival

1984 Hyman Schandler
         Violinist and Conductor

1984 Ben Shouse
         Arts Advocate

1984 Dorothy and Reuben Silver
         Actors and Directors

1985 David B. Guralnik
         Lexicographer

1985 Ray Shepardson
        Cultural Catalyst

1985 Jack Renner and Robert Woods
         Record Industry Pioneers

1986 Alice Chalifoux
         Master Performer and Teacher

1986 Wilda M. Donegan and Robert E. Woide
         Catalysts for Arts Education

1987 Allen C. Holmes
         Activist for Community Enhancement

1987 Dorothy Humel Hovorka
         Leader in Cultural Enterprises

1988 Dr. Lester G. Glick
         Cultural Leader and Advocate

1988 Joseph McCullough
         President,  
         The Cleveland Institute of Art

1988 The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
          Compiled and Edited by
          David D. Van Tassel
          and John J. Grabowski

1988 William E. Ward
         Chief Designer,
         The Cleveland Museum of Art

1989 Christoph von Dohnanyi
         Music Director,
         The Cleveland Orchestra,
         Champion of New Music

1990 Gerald Freedman
         Artistic Director,
         Great Lakes Theater Festival

1990 Peter B. Lewis
         Patron and Cultural Activist

1990 Marjorie Talalay
         Co-Founder and Director,
         Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art

1991 Evan H. Turner
         Director,
         The Cleveland Museum of Art

1991 Katherine B. Williams
         Patron and Cultural Leader

1991 Lillian C. Zevin
         Publisher and Friend of Literature

1992 Penelope D. Buchanan
         Art Educator and Director,
         Teacher Resource Center, CMA

1992 The Martha Holden Jennings Foundation
         Facilitators and Supporters of
         Arts Education

1993 The Men and Women of
         The Cleveland Orchestra
          
          As Individual Artists and Cleveland’s 
          Ambassadors to the World

1994 Ernestine and Malcolm Brown
         Pioneering Gallery Owners and
         Art Educators

1995 John Ewing
         Co-Founder and Director,
         Cleveland Cinematheque

1995 Karel Paukert
         Curator of Musical Arts,
         CMA Master Organist and Impresario

1995 Frances P. Taft
         Revered Teacher, Noted Scholar,
         Discerning Arts Patron

1996 The Cleveland School of the Arts
         Inspiring Example for Urban Education

1997 Case Western Reserve University
         Advocate and Patron of the Arts

1997 Mary Elizabeth and G. Robert Klein
         Partners in Cultural and Civic Leadership

1998 Kathleen Coakley
         Public Art Advocate

1999 Robert P. Bergman (posthumous)
         Director,
         The Cleveland Museum of Art

1999 Marjorie Witt Johnson
         Pioneering Dance Teacher

1999 Marilyn Gell Mason
         Director,
         Cleveland Public Library

1999 Herbert E. Strawbridge
         Arts Patron and Advocate

2000 Robert P. Madison
         Architectural Pioneer, Mentor, and Arts Patron

2001 Barbara S. Robinson
         Arts Advocate

2002 Pauline Thesmacher
         Master Voice Teacher

Past Winners: Special Citations > Past Winners