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Joseph P. Riley, Jr. - arts patron, design advocate Frank Stella - painter, sculptor The School of American Ballet - ballet school Michael Tilson Thomas - conductor John Wiliams - composer, conductor 2008 Olivia de Havilland - actress Fisk Jubilee Singers - choral ensemble Ford's Theatre Society - theater and museum Hank Jones - jazz musician José Limón Dance Foundation - modern dance company and institute Stan Lee - comic book writer, producer Jesús Moroles - sculptor The Presser Foundation - music patron The Sherman Brothers - songwriting team <a name="07"></a> 2007 Morten Lauridsen - composer N. Scott Momaday - author, essayist, poet, professor, painter Roy R. Neuberger - arts patron R. Craig Noel - Old Globe Theatre director Les Paul - guitarist, inventor Henry Steinway - arts patron George Tooker - painter University of Idaho Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival - music competition and festival Andrew Wyeth - painter <a name="06"></a> 2006 William Bolcom - composer Cyd Charisse - dancer Roy R. DeCarava - photographer Wilhelmina Holladay - arts patron Interlochen Center for the Arts - school of fine arts Erich Kunzel - conductor Preservation Hall Jazz Band - jazz ensemble Gregory Rabassa - literary translator Viktor Schreckengost - industrial designer, sculptor Dr. Ralph Stanley - bluegrass musician <a name="05"></a> 2005 Louis Auchincloss - author James DePreist - symphony orchestra conductor Paquito D'Rivera - jazz musician, composer, writer Robert Duvall - actor Leonard Garment - arts patron and advocate Ollie Johnston - film animator and artist Wynton Marsalis - trumpeter, composer, Jazz at Lincoln Center     artistic director Dolly Parton - singer, songwriter Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts - school of fine arts, museum Tina Ramirez - choreographer, Ballet Hispanico artistic director <a name="04"></a> 2004 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - philanthropic foundation Ray Bradbury - author Carlisle Floyd - opera composer Frederick Hart - sculptor Anthony Hecht - poet John Ruthven - wildlife artist Vincent Scully - architectural historian and educator Twyla Tharp - contemporary dance choreographer <a name="03"></a> 2003 Austin City Limits - PBS television program Beverly Cleary - writer Rafe Esquith - arts educator Suzanne Farrell - dancer, choreographer, company director, educator Buddy Guy - blues musician Ron Howard - actor, director, writer, producer Mormon Tabernacle Choir - choral group Leonard Slatkin - symphony orchestra conductor George Strait - country singer, songwriter Tommy Tune - dancer, actor, choreographer, director <a name="02"></a> 2002 Florence Knoll Bassett - architect Trisha Brown - artistic director, choreographer, dancer Philippe de Montebello - museum director Uta Hagen - actress, drama teacher Lawrence Halprin - landscape architect Al Hirschfeld - artist, illustrator George Jones - country music composer, performer Ming Cho Lee - theater designer William "Smokey" Robinson - songwriter, musician <a name="01"></a> 2001 Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation - modern dance company and school Rudolfo Anaya - writer Johnny Cash - singer, songwriter Kirk Douglas - actor, producer Helen Frankenthaler - painter Judith Jamison - artistic director, choreographer, dancer Yo-Yo Ma - cellist Mike Nichols - director, producer <a name="00"></a> 2000 Maya Angelou - poet, writer Eddy Arnold - country singer Mikhail Baryshnikov - dancer, director Benny Carter - jazz musician Chuck Close - painter Horton Foote - playwright, screenwriter Lewis Manilow - arts patron National Public Radio, Cultural Programming Division - broadcaster Claes Oldenburg - sculptor Itzhak Perlman - violinist Harold Prince - theater director, producer Barbra Streisand - entertainer, filmmaker <a name="99"></a> 1999 Irene Diamond - arts patron Aretha Franklin - singer Michael Graves - architect, designer The Juilliard School - performing arts school Norman Lear - producer, writer, director, advocate Rosetta LeNoire - actress, producer Harvey Lichtenstein - arts administrator Lydia Mendoza - singer Odetta - singer, music historian George Segal - sculptor Maria Tallchief - ballerina <a name="98"></a> 1998 Jacques d'Amboise - dancer, choreographer, educator Antoine "Fats" Domino - rock 'n' roll pianist, singer Ramblin' Jack Elliott - folk singer, songwriter Frank Gehry - architect Barbara Handman - arts advocate Agnes Martin - visual artist Gregory Peck - actor, producer Roberta Peters - opera singer Philip Roth - writer Sara Lee Corporation - corporate arts patron Steppenwolf Theatre Company - arts organization Gwen Verdon - actress, dancer <a name="97"></a> 1997 Louise Bourgeois - sculptor Betty Carter - jazz vocalist Agnes Gund - arts patron Daniel Urban Kiley - landscape architect Angela Lansbury - actor James Levine - opera conductor, pianist MacDowell Colony - artist colony Tito Puente - Latin percussionist, musician Jason Robards - actor Edward Villella - dancer, choreographer Doc Watson - bluegrass guitarist, vocalist <a name="96"></a> 1996 Edward Albee - playwright Boys Choir of Harlem - performing arts youth group Sarah Caldwell - opera conductor Harry Callahan - photographer Zelda Fichandler - theater director, founder Eduardo "Lalo" Guerrero - composer, musician Lionel Hampton - musician, bandleader Bella Lewitzky - dancer, choreographer, teacher Vera List - arts patron Robert Redford - actor, director, producer Maurice Sendak - writer, illustrator, designer Stephen Sondheim - composer, lyricist <a name="95"></a> 1995 Licia Albanese - opera singer Gwendolyn Brooks - poet B. Gerald and Iris Cantor - arts patrons Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee - actors David Diamond - composer James Ingo Freed - architect Bob Hope - entertainer Roy Lichtenstein - painter, sculptor Arthur Mitchell - dancer, choreographer William S. Monroe - bluegrass musician Urban Gateways - arts education organization <a name="94"></a> 1994 Harry Belafonte - singer, actor Dave Brubeck - pianist, bandleader, composer Celia Cruz - singer Dorothy DeLay - violin teacher Julie Harris - actress Erick Hawkins - dance choreographer Gene Kelly - dancer, singer, actor Pete Seeger - composer, lyricist, vocalist, banjo player Catherine Filene Shouse - arts patron Wayne Thiebaud - artist, teacher Richard Wilbur - poet, teacher, critic, literary translator Young Audiences - arts presenter <a name="93"></a> 1993 Walter and Leonore Annenberg - arts patrons Cabell "Cab" Calloway - singer, bandleader Ray Charles - singer, musician Bess Lomax Hawes - folklorist Stanley Kunitz - poet, educator Robert Merrill - baritone Arthur Miller - playwright Robert Rauschenberg - artist Lloyd Richards - theatrical director William Styron - writer Paul Taylor - dancer, choreographer Billy Wilder - movie director, writer, producer <a name="92"></a> 1992 AT&T - corporate arts patron Marilyn Horne - opera singer Allan Houser - sculptor James Earl Jones - actor Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund - foundation arts patron Minnie Pearl - Grand Ole Opry performer Robert Saudek - television producer, Museum of Broadcasting founding director Earl Scruggs - banjo player Robert Shaw - orchestra conductor, choral director Billy Taylor - jazz pianist Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown - architects Robert Wise - film producer, director <a name="91"> </a> 1991 Maurice Abravanel - music director, conductor Roy Acuff - country singer, bandleader Pietro Belluschi - architect J. Carter Brown - museum director Charles "Honi" Coles - tap dancer John O. Crosby - opera director, conductor, administrator Richard Diebenkorn - painter R. Philip Hanes, Jr. - arts patron Kitty Carlisle Hart - actress, singer, arts administrator, dancer Pearl Primus - choreographer, anthropologist Isaac Stern - violinist Texaco Inc. - corporate arts patron <a name="90" id="90"></a> 1990 George Francis Abbott - actor, playwright, producer, director Hume Cronyn - actor, director Merce Cunningham - choreographer, dance company director Jasper Johns - painter, sculptor Riley "B.B." King - blues musician, singer David Lloyd Kreeger - arts patron Jacob Lawrence - painter Harris & Carroll Sterling Masterson - arts patrons Ian McHarg - landscape architect Beverly Sills - opera singer, director Southeastern Bell Corporation - corporate arts patron Jessica Tandy - actress <a name="89" id="89"></a> 1989 Leopold Adler - preservationist, civic leader Dayton Hudson Corporation - corporate arts patron Katherine Dunham - dancer, choreographer Alfred Eisenstaedt - photographer Martin Friedman - museum director Leigh Gerdine - arts patron, civic leader John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie - jazz trumpeter Walker Kirtland Hancock - sculptor Vladimir Horowitz (Posthumous award) - pianist Czelaw Milosz - writer Robert Motherwell - painter John Updike - writer <a name="88" id="88"></a> 1988 (Mrs. Vincent) Brooke Astor - arts patron Saul Bellow - writer Sydney J. Freedberg - art historian, curator Francis Goelet - music patron Helen Hayes - actress Gordon Parks - photographer, film director I.M. Pei - architect Jerome Robbins - dancer, choreographer Rudolf Serkin - pianist Roger L. Stevens - arts administrator Obert C. Tanner - arts patron Virgil Thomson - composer, music critic <a name="87" id="87"></a> 1987 Romare Bearden - painter J. W. Fisher - arts patron Ella Fitzgerald - singer Dr. Armand Hammer - arts patron Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Lewis - arts patrons Howard Nemerov - writer, scholar Alwin Nikolais - dancer, choreographer Isamu Noguchi - sculptor William Schuman - composer Robert Penn Warren - writer, poet <a name="86" id="86"></a> 1986 Marian Anderson - opera singer Frank Capra - film director Aaron Copland - composer Willem de Kooning - painter Agnes de Mille - choreographer Dominique de Menil - arts patron Exxon Corporation - corporate arts patron Seymour H. Knox - arts patron Eva Le Gallienne - actress, author Alan Lomax - folklorist, scholar Lewis Mumford - philosopher, literary critic Eudora Welty - writer <a name="85" id="85"></a> 1985 Elliott Carter, Jr. - composer Dorothy Buffum Chandler - arts patron Ralph (Waldo) Ellison - writer Jose Ferrer - actor Martha Graham - dancer, choreographer Hallmark Cards, Inc. - corporate arts patron Lincoln Kirstein - arts patron Paul Mellon - arts patron Louise Nevelson - sculptor Georgia O'Keeffe - painter Leontyne Price - soprano Alice Tully - arts patron NOTE: In 1983, prior to the official establishment of the National Medal of Arts, the following artists and patrons received a medal from President Reagan at a White House luncheon arranged by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. They were: (artists) Pinchas Zukerman, Frederica Von Stade, Czeslaw Milosz, Frank Stella, Philip Johnson, and Luis Valdez; (patrons) The Texaco Philanthropic Foundation, James Michener,* Philip Morris, Inc., The Cleveland Foundation, Elma Lewis, and The Dayton Hudson Foundation. * who was considered a patron <table width="95%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td class="navCellOMB"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130826194408/http://www.arts.gov/about/Privacy.html" class="omblink">Privacy Policy</a>          <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130826194408/http://www.arts.gov/about/Notices.html" class="omblink">Important Notices</a>          <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130826194408/http://www.arts.gov/about/ContactUs.html" class="omblink">Contact Us</a>          <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130826194408/http://www.usa.gov/" class="omblink">USA.gov</a></td> </tr> </table> National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20506 <h1> </h1></td> <td align="left" valign="top"> </td> <td align="left" valign="top">Bios and photos <table width="130" border="0" cellpadding="4" class="navTable"> <tr> <td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130826194408/http://www.nea.gov/news/news03/MedalsAnnounce2003.html">2003</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130826194408/http://www.nea.gov/news/news04/Medals.html">2004</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130826194408/http://www.nea.gov/news/news05/Medals.html">2005</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130826194408/http://www.nea.gov/news/news06/Medals.html">2006</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130826194408/http://www.nea.gov/news/news07/Medals.html">2007</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130826194408/http://www.nea.gov/news/news08/Medals.html">2008</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130826194408/http://www.nea.gov/news/news10/Medals.html">2009</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130826194408/http://www.nea.gov/news/news11/Medals.html">2010</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130826194408/http://www.nea.gov/news/news12/medals.html">2011</a></td> </tr> </table>          </td> </tr> </table> <map name="Map"> <area shape="rect" coords="129,16,262,44" href="contacts.html"> </map>  <map name="Map"> <area shape="rect" coords="127,8,230,27" href="/web/20130826194408/http://www.nea.gov/honors/webcasts.html" alt="Webcasts"> </map> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-19449080-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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