Awards of Distinction and National Folk Art Sites

Winners of the Folk Art Society Awards of Distinction:

• 1989 – Howard Finster
• 1990 – Herbert Waide Hemphill Jr.
• 1991 – Robert Bishop (posthumously)
• 1992 – Seymour Rosen
• 1993 – Minnie Adkins, Dorothy and Sterling Strauser
• 1994 – Felipe and Leroy Archuleta, Warren and Sylvia Lowe
• 1995 – Ned Cartledge, Chuck and Jan Rosenak
• 1996 – Clyde Jones, Gerard Wertkin
• 1997 – Mr. Imagination (Gregory Warmack), Flo and Jules Laffal
• 1998 – Rev. Johnnie Hunter, Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Marilyn Oshman
• 1999 – Linvel Barker, Lillian Barker (posthumously), Alan Jabbour
• 2000 – Ted Gordon, Bud Goldstone
• 2001 – Georgia Blizzard, Shirley Yancey, Peggy Baggett
• 2002 – Lorenzo Scott, Betty-Carol Sellen, John Smither (posthumously), Stephanie Smither
• 2003 – Ralph N. Lanning, Maude Southwell Wahlman
• 2004 – Artists of Creative Growth, Irene Ward Brydon, John Foster, Lee Kogan
• 2005 – Stanley Szwarc, Russell Bowman
• 2006 – Nicholas Herrera, Peter Cecere
• 2007 – Tim Lewis, Bill Glennon, Mary Bryan Hood, Marvin Finn (posthumously)
• 2008 – Malcah Zeldis, Rebecca Hoffberger
• 2009 – Purvis Young, Ruby Williams, Jack Beverland, Tom and Donna Brumfield, Lynne Browne, Randall Lott, Nancy McCall
• 2010 – Marcia Muth, Sabinita Lopez Ortiz, Susan Mitchell Crawley
• 2011 – Eldridge Bagley, Kathy Johnson Bowles and Ray Kass
• 2012 – William Arnett, Thornton Dial Sr. and Georgine Clarke (posthumously)
• 2013 – William Ferris, Bernard Herman, Roger Manley, Jenny Moore and Vollis Simpson (posthumously)
• 2014 – Michael Hall, Janis Price, John Hoar
• 2015 – Margaret Day Allen, Carol Crown, Cheryl Rivers, Edwin Jeffery Jr., John Williams
• 2016 – Kristin Congdon, Jennifer Hardin, George Lowe, Mary Proctor and John Schloder
• 2017 – Arthur Lopez, Artist; Eluid Levi Martinez, Artist; Jeff Snell, Peggy Gaustad, Tina Cox, James Sellman, William Oppenhimer.
• 2018 – The Aguilar Family of Ocotlan, Oaxaca.
• 2019 – Sue Kelly and the Nova Scotia Folk Art Society, Mary K. McDonald, Conference Chairman
• 2022 – Winton & Rosa Eugene, Artists. Terri Johnson & Alex Patrick, Conference Chairs
• 2023 – Barbara Grey, Karen Sherry, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Willie Anne Wright.

FASA Plaques Awarded to Folk Art Sites Worthy of Preservation and Protection:

• Howard Finster’s Paradise Garden, Summerville, Ga.
• Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village, Simi Valley, Calif.
• Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers, Los Angeles, Calif.
• Leonard Knight’s Salvation Mountain, Niland, Calif.
• Miles Carpenter’s Home, Waverly, Va.
• Nek Chand’s Rock Garden, Chandigarh, India
• Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park, Wilson, N.C
• Clyde Jones’ Critter Crossing, Bynum, N.C.
• Anderson Johnson Museum, Downing-Gross Cultural Center, Newport News, Va.
• Hartman Rock Garden, Springfield, OH
• Billy Tripp’s Mindfield, Brownsville, TN
• Jose’ Fuster’s Fusterlandia, Jaimanitas, Havana, Cuba