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