National Arts Awards
Kitty Carlisle Hart Award
Arts Advocacy
Americans for the Arts celebrates distinguished cultural, corporate, and artistic leaders for their contributions to the arts in America with the National Arts Awards, presented annually in New York City. Not all categories are awarded each year.
(awarded by the Arts & Business Council from 1996 to 2004, it became part of the National Arts Awards in 2005)
Phil Ramone, 2008
Herb Albert, 2010*
Wendy Wasserstein, 2000
Salman Rushdie, 2009
Hillary Rodham Clinton, 1999
Yoko Ono, 2008
Alec Baldwin, 1998
Anna Deavere Smith, 2007
Christopher Reeve, 1996
Mikhail Baryshnikov, 2005
Arts Education
Nam June Paik, 2004
Angela Lansbury, 2010
Martin Scorsese, 2004
Robert Redford, 2009
Richard Avedon, 2003
Dame Julie Andrews, 2008
Twyla Tharp, 2003
William Bassell, Long Island City High School, 2004
Ellsworth Kelly, 2007
Merce Cunningham, 2002
Schuyler Chapin, 2001
Aretha Franklin, 2006
James Stewart Polshek, 2002
Agnes Gund, 1999
John Baldessari, 2005
Beverly Sills, 2002
Midori Goto, 1998
Paul Taylor, 2004
Renee Fleming, 2001
Arthur Mitchell, 1997
Richard Avedon, 2003
Gordon Parks, 2001
Martina Arroyo, 1996
Richard Meier, 2001
Edward Albee, 2000
Wynton Marsalis, 1996
Frank O. Gehry and Thomas Krens, 2000
Chuck Close, 2000 Judith Jamison, 2000
Artistic Excellence
Jacob Lawrence, 1999
Will Barnet, 1999
Ed Ruscha, 2009
Isaac Stern, 1998
Barbara Cook, 1999
Jeff Koons, 2006
Beverly Sills, 1997
Paul Taylor, 1999
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 2003
Jason Robards, 1996
Peter Martins, 1998
Kirk Varnedoe, Memorial Tribute, 2003
Harold Prince, 1998 Robert Rauschenberg, 1998
Pinchas Zukerman, Isaac Stern Award for Excellence in Classical Music, 2003
Harry Belafonte, 1997
Cindy Sherman, 2002
Al Hirschfeld, 1997
Peter Martins, 2001
Hugh Hardy, 1996 * Outstanding Contribution to the Arts Award
Michael Greene, National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, 2001
Lifetime Achievement
Betty Comden and Adolph Green, 1996
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Chuck Close, 2004
Americans for the Arts
Pierre Dulaine and Yvonne Marceau, American Ballroom Theater, 2005