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Annual Award for
Excellence in the Arts |
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The Newington
Cropsey Foundation Cultural Studies Center Award for Excellence in the
Arts is presented annually to an individual who has made a significant
contribution to the arts and society. The award recognizes artists and
scholars whose work furthers our understanding of how the arts inspire
personal growth, responsibility and a civic participation. Guided by the
belief that, aesthetically and spiritually, the arts continue to nurture
us today, as they have for millennia, we honor individuals who seek to
recover and maintain the vital links between the canonical masterpieces
of the past and contemporary artistic practice.
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The recipient is presented with a cash award and a
bronze statuette created by Barbara Newington,
Director of the Newington Cropsey
Foundation, of the Archangel Michael,
an ecumenical symbol of heroic virtue and light. The sculpture, showing
Michael kneeling in prayerful contemplation, is a reminder to all who
visit the foundation that man is by nature a spiritual being. |
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2006 Award Recipient
Alvin Holm |
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2005, Burton Silverman, painter
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2004, William H. Gerdts, art
historian |
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2003, Henry Hope Reed,
architectural historian |
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2002, Rev. Dr. Victoria R. Sirota,
musician |
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2000, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona,
scholar of religion and the arts |
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1999, Frank Mason, painter
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1998, Frederick Hart, sculptor |
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