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Year Award Awardees 2003 Excellence in an Artistic Discipline Joy Zinoman     Outstanding Emerging Artist Tim Tate CityDance Ensemble     Excellence in Service to the Arts The Washington Sculptors Group WMATA Board of Directors, Art in Transit Program Whitman-Walker Clinic's Art for Life Program     Outstanding Contribution to Arts Education DC Youth Orchestra     Innovation in the Arts The 48 Hour Film Project, Inc.     Special Recognition Roberta Flack Roland Celette, Cultural Attache and Director of La Maison Francaise Patton Boggs, LLP 2002 Excellence in an Artistic Discipline Arena Stage Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra     Outstanding Emerging Artist Spoken Resistance Yolanda Young     Excellence in Service to the Arts WAMU-FM Joy of Motion Dance Center     Outstanding Contribution to Arts Education Rincones and Co. Dance Theatre The Patricia M. Sitar Center for the Arts     Innovation in the Arts Art-0-Matic     Special Recognition Nap Turner Frank J. Guzzetta 2001 Excellence in an Artistic Discipline Judith Dwan Hallet The Washington Opera     Outstanding Emerging Artist Ruth Dickey Duane Moody     Excellence in Service to the Arts The Corcoran Art Gallery     Outstanding Contribution to Arts Education Jason Kamras Art Around the Corner, National Gallery of Art     Special Recognition Douglas Wheeler Buck Hill 2000 Excellence in an Artistic Discipline Aviva Kempner G. Byron Peck     Outstanding Emerging Artist Nestor Hernandez, Jr. Sowande Tichawonna     Excellence in Service to the Arts Karen L.B. Evans The Shakespeare Theater     Outstanding Contribution to Arts Education Folger Shakespeare Library Life Pieces to Masterpieces     Innovation in the Arts Malik M. Lloyd     Special Recognition Chuck Brown Charlene Drew Jarvis Charles C. Stephenson Jr. 1999 Excellence in an Artistic Discipline Gaston Neal Michael Platt Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company     Outstanding Emerging Artist Keith Alan Baker Lisa Pegram     Excellence in Service to the Arts Kenneth Carroll Humanities Council of Washington, DC     Outstanding Contribution to Arts Education National Building Museum Youth and Family Education Program Washington Very Special Arts     Innovation in the Arts Laurie Stroblas     Special Recognition Douglas Jemal, Douglas Development Corp. Art-O-Matic Charles C. Stephenson Jr. 1998 Excellence in an Artistic Discipline Norman Scribner Manon Cleary Jennifer Nelson     Outstanding Emerging Artist Beverly Lindsay Karen Zacarias Toni Blackman     Excellence in Service to the Arts Gilbert and Jaylee Mead Davey Yarborough JoAnn Williams The National Museum of Women in the Arts     Outstanding Contribution to Arts Education Dr. Luvenia A. George Dance Institute of Washington Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz     Special Recognition The Honorable Mayor Marion Barry Jr. 1997 Excellence in an Artistic Discipline Michael Kahn Eric Hampton Renee Stout     Excellence in Service to the Arts Andrew Cacho African Drummers and Dancers Sallie Mae WDCU-FM Radio     Outstanding Emerging Artist Maru Montero Dance Company East of the River Boys and Girls Steelband Lori J. Tsang     Outstanding Contribution to Arts Education Fillmore Arts Center Levine School of Music Marcia Mc Donell     Special Recognition Thurlow Evens Tibbs Jr. (posthumously) 1994 Excellence in an Artistic Discipline The Choral Arts Society of Washington The Four Echoes Kankouran West African Dance Company     Excellence in Service to the Arts African Continuum Theatre Coalition Askia Muhammad Source Theatre Company     Outstanding Emerging Artist Dana Tai Soon Burgess     Special Recognition Washington School of Ballet WETA TV26's Around Town 1993 Excellence in an Artistic Discipline Haile Gerima John N. Robinson Howard Shalwitz     Excellence in Service to the Arts Asian American Arts and Media, Inc. District Curators, Inc. Washington DC International Film Festival     Outstanding Emerging Artist Detra Battle     Special Recognition Elizabeth Brown Leila Smith 1992 Excellence in an Artistic Discipline Sharon Farmer Marita Golden     Excellence in Service to the Arts DC Youth Ensemble Tomorrow's World Art Center     Outstanding Emerging Artist Reuben M. Jackson     Special Recognition J. Carter Brown Felix Grant Renee Poussaint Mstislav Rostropovich 1991 Excellence in an Artistic Discipline Richard Bauer Tom Nakashima Robert Northern     Excellence in Service to the Arts Peggy Cooper Cafritz Charlin Jazz Society Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts     Outstanding Emerging Artist Enrique Aviles Kweli Smith 1989 Excellence in an Artistic Discipline Gay Men's Chorus Hugo Medrano Michelle Parkerson Sharon Wyrrick     Excellence in Service to the Arts DC ART/WORKS Herb White WPFW-FM Joy Zinoman     Outstanding Emerging Artist Debra Tidwell     Special Recognition May Miller-Sullivan 1988 Excellence in an Artistic Discipline John Cephas and Phil Wiggins Mary Jefferson Liz Lerman Sweet Honey in the Rock     Excellence in Service to the Arts Mike Malone Norman and Winifred Portenoy Takoma Station Bill Warrell     Outstanding Emerging Artist Y. David Chung     Special Recognition Experience Unlimited Band Joyce Garrett and the Eastern High School Choir 1987 Excellence in an Artistic Discipline Sandra Fortune Green Bill Harris Shirley Horn Living Stage Theatre Company Ed Love     Excellence in Service to the Arts Max Berry Blues Alley DC Youth Orchestra Program Duke Ellington School of the Arts UDC Black Film Institute     Outstanding Emerging Artist Jorge Luis Somarriba     Special Recognition Laura Pettaway Georgette S. Powell 1986 Excellence in an Artistic Discipline William Christenberry Roland Freeman Choo San Goh James L. Wells     Excellence in Service to the Arts Arnold and Porter The Dance Place Marta Istomin Doris Jones Washington Review for the Arts     Outstanding Emerging Artist DC Contemporary Dance Theatre Denise Ward-Brown 1985 Excellence in an Artistic Discipline Mary Day Todd Duncan Bernice Johnson Reagon Lou Stovall     Excellence in Service to the Arts Children's Studio School Corcoran School of Art Warren M. Robbins Roger L. Stevens Bart Whiteman     Outstanding Emerging Artist Paul Wagner 1983 Excellence in an Artistic Discipline Owen Dodson Eloise Greenfield Lois Mailou Jones Richard Smallwood Erika Thimey     Excellence in Service to the Arts Patrick Hayes Polly Shakleton     Outstanding Emerging Artist Julia McGrit 1982 Excellence in an Artistic Discipline Sam Gilliam Charles Guggenheim E. Ethelbert Miller Louis W. Scheeder     Excellence in Service to the Arts Adelyn D. Breeskin Henry Strong The Rep., Incorporated     Outstanding Emerging Artist Martha Jackson-Jarvis     Special Recognition William F. McSweeny 1981 Excellence in an Artistic Discipline Sterling Brown Gene Davis Melvin Deal Zelda Fichandler     Excellence in Service to the Arts Franz Bader Ron Bryce-Laport Father Gilbert Hartke David Lloyd Kreeger Ralph Rinzler     Special Recognition Joshua (Tony) Taylor GALA Hispanic Theatre Washington Project for the Arts