Archive

2019

  • Mary Henige – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
  • Raymond Pointer – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Richard Margitza – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Frank Hartenstein – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre

2018

  • Sarah Ryley – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication 
  • Michael Luchs – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Michael Krajewski – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • David Calhoun – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • Howard Hertz– CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award

2017

  • Don Gonyea – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
  • Susan Rossen – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Charlotte Merkerson – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Dr. Phillip Moss – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • William "Bill" Prady – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award

2016

  • Lynne Avadenka – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • James Curnow – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Della Hamby – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Shawn Kahle – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication 
  • Sam Richardson – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre

2015

  • Toi Banks – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Delores Ivory Davis – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Ann Delisi – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
  • David Ramsey – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • Timothy Van Laar – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Eugene Driker – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award

2014

  • Jerry Grant – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Ray Katz – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Phyllis Somerville – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre and Dance
  • Elliot Wilhelm – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
  • Donald Ritzenhein – CFPCA Volunteer of the Year Award
  • The Erb Family Foundation – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award

2013

  • Gregory Andracke – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
  • John Hunter – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • James Lentini – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Elizabeth Schmidt – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Harry Leibowitz – Dean's Award for Community Impact

2012

  • Linda Downs – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Kendall Smith – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • Sonya Tayeh – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Lisa Vallee-Smith – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
  • Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company – Dean's Award for Arts Entrepreneurship

2008

  • Kenneth and Kimberly Cockrel – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
  • John Feierabend – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Kent Neely – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • John Egner – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History

2007

  • Ed Fraga – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • David Salzman – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
  • Rose Marie Floyd – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • George Shirley – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Thorsten Kaye – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • Susan Mosey – Distinguished Community Service Award

2006

  • Daniel Loepp – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
  • Eunice Moore – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Larry Walker – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Leonard Leone – Dean's Award for Distinguished Service
  • Tom Skerritt – Dean's Award for Career Achievement

2005

  • Jack Kay – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
  • Stephen Millen – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Ernie Hudson – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • Richard Bilaitis – Dean's Distinguished Service Award
  • Detroit Free Press – Dean's Community Service Award

2004

  • William Benoit – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
  • Robert Brock – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • Helen Landgarten – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • James Pallas – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Charles Postlewate – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • John Richards – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
  • Sharon Unrau – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance

2003

  • Jerry Flint  – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
  • Annette Alexander Frank – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • Cary Loren – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • John Macurdy – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Ruben Santiago Hudson – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • Linda Cleveland Simmons  – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • University Cultural Center Association – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award

2002

  • Kathleen Gaffney – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • Harvey Goldstein – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • Jennifer Noyer – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Don Palmer – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • John Nick Pappas – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Dr. Sidney A. Ribeau – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
  • Anca Vlasopolos – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
  • Peter Cummings – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award

2001

  • Edward K. Christian – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
  • Ira Hearshen – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Victoria Holley-Foster – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • S. Epatha Merkerson – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • David Small – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Aida Snow – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • George Tysh – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
  • Dr. David DiChiera – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award

2000

  • George Cantor – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
  • William P. Foster – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Carol Halsted – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Carol S. Pylant – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Tom Sizemore – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • Marian Kinney Stephens – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • Maggie Allesee – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award

1998-1999

  • Charles Canon – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • Alan Danielson – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Arthur C. Danto – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Chad Everett – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
  • Yusef A. Lateef – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Martin Pakledinaz – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • Bonnie Lee Moss Rattner – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
  • Frank D. Stella – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award

1997

  • Kim Carney – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • Lori Christmastree – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Malcolm Johns – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Marion K. Jones – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Victor H. Miesel, Ph.D. – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • Frank Pahl – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
  • Erik Smith – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
  • Emma Lazaroff Schaver – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award

1996

  • Sergio De Giusti – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Rosemary Gould – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • Robert Lambert – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • Joseph Loduca – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Alvin Mayes – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Elizabeth Meese, Ph.D. – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
  • Thom Sharp – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
  • Louis G. Redstone – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award

1995

  • Rose Marie Floyd – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Mark Fritz – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
  • John P. Glick – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Dr. Polly Hughes – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • Ollie McFarland – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Dr. Deborah Tannen – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
  • Barbara Tarbuck – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • Arthur L. Johnson – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award

1994

  • Robert Bates, Ph.D. – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Beverly Barber – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Sonny Eliot – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
  • Woodie King, Jr. – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • James Russell Mayes – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
  • Louise J. Nobili – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Shirley Woodson-Reid – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • James Duffy, Jr. – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award

1993

  • Roy E. Ernst – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Paula Gosling Hare – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
  • Diane D. Kordich – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • Stanley Lechtzin – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Philip Spensley – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • Helen Thomas – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
  • Charles A. Forbes – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award

1992

  • Portia Fields-Anderson – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Daniel Majeske – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Dr. David McKay – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • Nancy Mitchnick – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Don Pilette – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
  • June Akers Seese – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
  • Russell E. Smith – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • Dr. Charles H. Wright – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award

1991

  • Lillian Wolock Elliott – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • Clarice Tinsley-Giles – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
  • Julie Jensen – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
  • Mark A. Leithauser – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Gordon Mathie – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Sharon McColl – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Tom Spackman – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • Leon S. Cohan – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award

1990

  • Alice Galloway – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • Karen Goodman – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Susan Hauptman – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Shirley Love – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Paul Petrie – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
  • Cledie Taylor – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • Roger and Henrietta Fridholm – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award

1989

  • Gere Baskin – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Frederick Coffin – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • William Harris – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
  • Allan T. Mette – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • Barbara Selinger – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • David Wagner – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Paul L. and Susan D. Nine – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award

1988

  • Kenneth Burrell – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Sharon Dilworth – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
  • Barbara Hallman – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • Ellen Phelan – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Irma Pylyshenko – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Paul Stolarsky – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • Michael Ilitch – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award

1987

  • Leo "Ted" Conebeare – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • Stephen Dobyns – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
  • Richard R. Kinney, Jr. – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Wil Love – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • Joseph Striplin – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Anne Warren – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Walter Buhl Ford, II – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award

1986

  • Patricia Brooks – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Dr. Seymour Chatman – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
  • Brazeal Dennard – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Walter Samuel Hamady -  Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • James Jennings – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • David Regal – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • W. Hawkins Ferry – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award

1985

  • Irving Berg – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • Garth Fagan – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Shirley Harbin – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • Naomi Long Madgett – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
  • William Peck – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • John Rea – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Leonard Leone – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award

1984

  • Dr. Harry Begian – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Esther M. Broner – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
  • Susanne Hilberry – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • George Pentecost – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • Ann Zirulnik – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Fern Zwickey – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • Paul Ganson – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award

1983

  • Joy Hakanson Colby – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Robert Harris – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Faye Kicknosway – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
  • Paula Kramer – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Hughie Lee-Smith – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • Robert Luscombe – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre

1982

  • David Barr – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Gay Delanghe – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Maurice Grossman – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • Barbara Meek – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • Ann and Ken Mikolowski – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
  • Donald Sinta – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music

1981

  • Raymond Blackwell – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • Hoyt W. Fuller – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
  • Jacqueline Davis – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Roger Sherman – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • George Shirley – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Jeffrey Tambor – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre

1980

  • Harriet Berg – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Mary Jane Bigler – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Audley M. Grossman, Jr. – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
  • Robert Hayden – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
  • Fred Harrington – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • Isador Saslov – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music

1978

  • State Senator Jack Faxon – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award

1977

  • Kathryn Ellis – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Harlan Hoffa – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • Addison Franklin Page – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Dudley Randall – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
  • James Tocco – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Max Wright – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre

1976

  • Howard and Kathy Clark – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
  • Phillip Levine – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
  • Cyril Miles – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • Ruth Murray – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
  • Felix Resnick – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
  • Michael Tolan – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre

1975

  • Murray Douglas – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
  • G. Alden Smith – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History