Lieutenant-Governor's Award for High Achievement in the Arts

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The Lieutenant Governor's Award for High Achievement in the Arts , previously called the Excellence Awards Program, is an award given annually by the New Brunswick Arts Board to recognise outstanding contribution by artists to the arts in New Brunswick. [1]

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Recipients

High Achievement in Literary Arts

Recipients [2]
YearRecipientRef.
2009 Rino Morin Rossignol
2009 Raymond Fraser
2010 Beth Powning
2011 France Daigle
2012 M. T. Dohaney
2013 Melvin Gallant
2014 Anne Compton
2015 Jacques Savoie [3]
2016 M. Travis Lane
2017 Robert Pichette
2019 Wayne Curtis
2021 Daniel H. Dugas [4]
2024 Valerie Sherrard [5]

High Achievement in Performing Arts

Recipients [2]
YearRecipientRef.
2009 Marcel-Romain Thériault
2010 Chantal Cadieux
2010 Calixte Duguay
2011 Patrick Clark
2012 Edith Butler
2013 Jenny Munday
2014 Igor Dobrovolskiy
2015 Jules Boudreau [3]
2017 Stephen Tobias
2019 Ray Legere
2021 Sandra Le Couteur [4]
2024 Marshall Button [6]

High Achievement in Visual Arts

Recipients [2]
YearRecipientRef.
2009 Roméo Savoie
2011 Yvon Gallant
2012 David Umholtz
2013 Janice Wright Cheney
2014 Anna Torma
2015 Thaddeus Holownia [3]
2016 Suzanne Hill
2017 Peter Powning
2019 Marie Hélène Allain
2021 Mathieu Léger [4]
2024 Phil Comeau

High Achievement in Indigenous Arts

Recipients [2]
YearRecipientRef.
2024 Tara Francis [7]


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