2025
Michael Freeman: Blind Abstract Artist & Advocate for Accessibility and Disability
Steven Lichak: Media Specialist and Cultural Conservationist
Elise Schaffer: Advocate for Accessibility in the Arts
The Ice House PAC (Performing Arts Collective): Local Arts Programming Venue
2023
Devyn Briggs
Jill Dunn Jones
Clint Walker (Mayor's Award)
Eileen Waverk Wescoe
2021
Jennie Gilrain
Missy Hartney
Beverly Hoover
Steven Sametz
2018
Dennis Danko
Joy Hirokawa
Randall Forte
Tim Fox (Mayor's Award)
Deni Thurman-Eyer (Barbara Pearson Award)
Dolores Yaschur-Sproule (Lifetime Achievement Award)
2016
The Freddy Awards
ArtPop
Barbara Kozero
2014
Mary Wright, Storyteller
Neil Wetzel, Jazz Saxophonist
Moravian College
Cafe at the Lodge
2013
Jennifer Wescoe
Andy Po
The Fab Lab
2012
Dave Fry
Moravian College Dance
Arts Lehigh
Marylou Cummings (Mayor’s Award)
2011
Bob Schantz
Celtic Cultural Alliance
Bethlehem Garden Club
2010
Ramona LaBarre
Lehigh Arts Alliance
Deja Brew Coffee House
2009
Dr. Larry Lipkis
Valley Contra Dance Society
Minuteman Press
2008
Charles Kiernan
Friends of Music of Bethlehem
Keystone Nazareth Charitable Foundation
Gregory Warmack (Mayor's Award)
2007
Robert Doney
Southside Film Institute & Festival
Home & Planet
2006
Oleg Briansky & Mirelle Brianne
Satori, Inc.
Spillman Farmer Architects
Diane LaBelle (Mayor's Award)
2005
Cora Hook
Mock Turtle Marionettes
The Brickman Group
2004
Peggy Whitney Hobbs
Bethlehem Palette Club
Technicolor Grand
Debby Haight (Mayor's Award)
2003
Charles Brown
Banana Factory
Air Products & Chemicals
2002
Deborah Sacarakis
Chamber Music Society of Bethlehem
Starbuck Goldner Tile
Kitty & Van Merle-Smith (Mayor's Award)
2001
William Persa
Young People’s Philharmonic
Valley Graphic Services
2000
Geoff Gehman
Rose Garden Children’s Festival
Artefact, Inc.
1999
Patricia McAndrew
Experimental Printmaking Institute
Plantique, Inc.
1998
Ricardo Viera
PA Shakespeare Festival
Saraceno Design
1997
Fred Bees
WDIY
Union Pacific
1996
Dr. Rudy Ackerman
Ray Huston & American Legion Band
Sing Out Magazine
1995
Ralph G. Schwarz
Ballet Guild of the Lehigh Valley
Martin Guitar
1994
Richard Redd
PA Youth Theatre
Just Born
1993
Jeffrey Parks
Touchstone Theatre
Binney & Smith
1992
Frederick Gilmartin
Godfrey Daniels
First Valley Bank
1991
Ronald P. Sherry
Bach Choir of Bethlehem
Bethlehem Steel
