*First time award recipients
2024 Literary Arts Recipients
$5,000
Jody Keisner (Omaha)
$2,500
Katie Marya (Lincoln)
Carolina Hotchandani (Omaha)
Caitlin Cass (Omaha)
Brad Aaron Modlin (Kearney)
$1,100
Zainab Omaki (Lincoln)
Moises Delgado (Omaha)
Avee Chaudhuri (Lincoln)
Tracy Tucker (Superior)
Nicole Lachat (Lincoln)
2023 Performing Arts Recipients
$2,500
Gregory Simon (Lincoln) Music/Sound*
Charles Fairbanks (Eustis) Videography/Screenwriting*
Allegra Hangen (Omaha) Videography/Screenwriting*
Lauren Simpson (Omaha) Choreography*
$2,000
Mary Lawson (Lincoln and Omaha) Music/Sound*
Gayle Rocz (Omaha) Choreography*
Lauren Bonk (Kearney) Theater/Playwriting*
Brian Guehring (Omaha) Theater/Playwriting
Nathan Brumbaugh (Omaha) Choreography*
2022 Visual Arts Recipients
$4,000
Sophia Ruppert*
Charley Friedman
Nancy Friedemann-Sanchez
$2,000
Lindsey Weber*
Lesley Darling*
$1,000
Santiago Cal
Katharen Wiese*
Barbara Kendrick*
Alex Jacobsen*
2021 Literary Arts Recipients
$5,000
Kristine Langley Mahler, nonfiction * (Ralston)
Matt Mason, poetry * (Omaha)
$2,500
Kassandra Montag, poetry and fiction * (Omaha)
Theodore Wheeler, fiction* (Omaha)
$1,000
Benjamin Vogt, nonfiction * (Lincoln)
Heidi Hermanson, poetry* (Omaha)
Sarah McKinstry-Brown, poetry (Omaha)
Saddiq Dzukogi, nonfiction * (Lincoln)
Miles Waggener, poetry (Omaha)
2020 Performing Arts Recipients
$5,000
Denise Chapman, Theater/Playwright (Omaha)
Seth Shafer, Music/Sound (Omaha)
$2,500
Lite Pole, Music/Sound (Omaha)
Sydney Shead, Filmmaking/Screenwriting (Omaha)
$1,000
Katherine Fackler, Choreography (Omaha)
Ellen Struve, Theater/Playwright (Omaha)
Beaufield Berry, Theater/Playwright (Omaha)
Stacey Barelos, Music/Sound (Omaha)
Darcy Lueking Bahensky (Holdrege)
2019 Visual Arts Recipients
$4,000
Francisco Souto
Aaron Holz
Michael Villarreal
$3,000
Mary Zicafoose
Ella Weber
Bradley Peters
$1,000
Sarah Berkeley
Holly Kranker
Rachel Mindrup
*Did not collect data for 2019 or 2020.