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]
Year | Recipient | Ref. |
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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] |
Year | Recipient | Ref. |
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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] |
Year | Recipient | Ref. |
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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 |
Year | Recipient | Ref. |
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2024 | Tara Francis | [7] |
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