List of Past Recipients
2024
Julia Belén Alverio
Marisol Blanco
Jude "Papaloko" Thegenus
The Ukrainian Dancers of Miami
2023
Myriam Eli
Concepción Poou Coy Tharin
2020
The Highwaymen
Hunter Hill
The Lee Boys
2019
James Billie
Tina Bucuvalas
Jane Wells Scott
Michael Usina
2018
Pedro Bullaudy
Marshall Davis
Jeff Klinkenberg
2017
David Peñaflor and Marilia Carrasquillo
Haiqiong Deng
Pastor William Emerson*
Willie Green
2016
Paco & Celia Fonta
Ed Long
Louinès & Lucrèce Louinis
Serge Toussaint
2015
Lorene Gopher*
Calvin "Buddy" Mills
Ruby Shaw
2014
Billy Burbank III
Guy LaBree*
John Lulias
Bob Pitt
2013
Laurence Cutts*
O. L. Samuels*
Neri Torres
2012
Mack Brooks
Clarita Filgueiras
Dolly Jacobs
Nicario Jiménez
2011
2010
Anastasios "Taso" Karistinos
Mieko Kubota*
Gary & Audrey Revell
2009
Pete Clemons
Langston Longley
Romeo Ragbir
George Saroukos
Ann Yao
2008
Joseph Johnson
Luis Ezequiel Torres
Nicholas Toth
Mike Wilder
2007
Jean-Marie Denis
Tomás Granado
Almann Ulysse
2006
Michael A. Berg
Aida Etchegoyen
Liliane Nérette Louis
Wayne & Marty Scott
2005
Michael Kernahan
Wayne Martin
Ruby C. Williams*
2004
Konstantinos Maris
Stuart Pacetti
Manuel Velazquez
2003
Kauii'healani Mahikoa Brandt
Troy Demps
2002
Charles Atkins
Sullivan & Iola Pugh*
J. Russell Reaver*
David "Rock Bottom" C. York*
2001
Eugenia Sisinni Fitchen
Bobby Henry
Alexander J. Jasiukowicz*
James Kelly
Henry Ohumukini, Jr.
Richard Seaman*
2000
Joseph Killgore*
Joe Zeytoonian
1999
Barbara Beauchamp*
Willie James
Edward J. Keeney*
Clayton Raulerson*
1998
Henry John Billie*
Ola Kryway
J. L. McMullen*
Lewellyn Roberts*
Manuel Vega, Sr.*
1997
The Epstein Brothers*
Alexander McBride*
Robert James Rudd*
Maude E. Scott
1996
Emelia Fernandez*
Don Grooms*
Kazuko Law*
1995
Willie Claude Eason*
Margaret Horvath
Glen Simmons*
1994
John K. Gianaros*
Major Hollis*
Betty Mae Jumper*
Neal "Pappy" McCormick*
Tommy E. Walton*
1993
Bobby Thomas Johns*
Willie David Jones*
Gamble Rogers*
Frank & Ann Thomas
1992
Lydia Cabrera*
William "Washboard Bill" Cooke*
Julian "Goose" Culbreath*
Bill & Jean Hewitt
Charles "Charlie" Lewis*
The Versiteers
1991
Myrtle E. Dudley*
Theophalis May*
Xavier Lopez Pellicer*
Mario Sanchez*
Ray Singleton*
1990
Carl Allen*
Ana Isasi Blanco*
George Custer*
George Katsaros*
Will McLean*
1989
E. W. Carswell*
Zora Neale Hurston*
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings*
Nikitas Tsimouris*
Robert "Chubby" Russell Wise*
1988
Tom Gaskins*
Flora Mae Hunter*
Stetson Kennedy*
Alton C. Morris*
1987
Ralph Steele Boggs*
J. P. "Curly" Dekle*
Ida Goodson*
1986
Edward L. Flemming, Jr.*
"Diamond Teeth" Mary Smith McClain*
1985
Susie Jim Billie*
Thelma Boltin*
Lucreaty Clark*
Nancy Morgan*
Lillian Saunders*
E. A. "Frog" Smith, Jr.*
* = deceased
