Year/Location

Individual

Institution

2011 Farmington

Palace of the Governors Photo Archives

2010 Las Vegas

Sue Sturtevant, Director, Hill-Stead Museum (formerly with DCA)

NM Holocaust Museum

2009 Santa Fe

Louise Stiver, NMAM past-president

NM History Museum

2008 Roswell

Dr. Jim Harris, Director, Lea County Museum

2007 Silver City

Tom Livesay, Director, LSU Museum of Art (formerly Director of the Museum of New Mexico)

2006 Taos

Dr. Helen Lucero, former curator, National Hispanic Cultural Center

 Albuquerque Museum

2005 Albuquerque

Wesley Rusnell, Curator of Collections, Roswell Museum and Art Center

Susan Berry, Director, Silver City Museum

Carlsbad Museum & Arts Center

2004 Grants

Jim Walther, Director, National Atomic Museum

Grants County Chamber of Commerce and the New Mexico Mining Museum

2003 Las Cruces

Patricia Garcia Miles, Mesilla Valley Museum Consortium

Trex and the Museum of New Mexico

2002 Taos

Mr. and Mrs. Dean Irwin

Taos Museum Association

2001 Ruidoso

Dr. James Moore, Director, Albuquerque Museum

Dr. Peter Walch, Director, UNM Art Museum

R.D. & Joan Dale Hubbard Foundation

2000 Albuquerque

Dr. Edson Way, Office of Cultural Affairs

McCune Foundation

1999 Santa Fe

Museum of New Mexico Foundation

1998 Farmington

B.H.P. Minerals-New Mexico Operations

1997 Las Cruces

J. Paul and Mary Taylor

1996 Taos

Jose Lizarraga, Executive Advisor, Mexican Cultural Center

1995 Las Vegas

R.J. Bailie, Untitled Fine Arts Service Inc.

1994 Roswell

Donald B. Anderson, businessman and artist and founding patron of Roswell Museum Artists in Residence Program

1993 Los Alamos

Rick Homans, publisher of Albuquerque Monthly magazine and President of the Board of the Albuquerque Children’s Museum

1992 Silver City

Frank Zoretich, columnist for the Albuquerque Journal’s Cheap Thrills Adventure Club

1991 Santa Fe

James “Mack” Griffin, volunteer for the Sacramento Mountains Historical Society, posthumously awarded