The Board of Directors presents the annual Conant Award in special recognition of an artist whose exemplary work was exhibited in the Gallery during the previous year. This award was established by a donation from Esther Conant to honor her friend, Helen Bumpus.
Congratulations to Virginia Holloway, 2023 Conant Award Recipient
Tangled Web by Virginia Holloway
Improvised Curve Piecing
Conant Award Recipients
- 2023 Viriginia Holloway
- 2021-2022 Laurinda Phakos O'Connor
- 2019 Kaitlin Thurlow
- 2018 Dorothy Amore Pilla
- 2017 Sandra Weeks
- 2016 Jeanie Rest
- 2014 Joan Collins
- 2013 John Cornacchio
- 2012 Sr. Marjorie Raphael
- 2011 Christina B. Wilson
- 2010 Sally Dean
- 2009 Dean Morrissey
- 2008 Carol Carney
- 2007 Keitaro Yoshioka
- 2006 Constance Flavell Pratt
- 2005 Hiroko Lee
- 2004 Kathy Ferrara
- 2003 Nancy Howell
- 2002 Roz Farbush
- 2001 Mary Felton
- 2000 Patricia McCarthy
- 1999 Jeff Melzack
- 1998 Mary LoPiccolo
- 1997 Bill Ternes
- 1996 John Lanza
- 1995 Marshall Joyce
- 1994 Katherine Smit
- 1993 Joyce Zavorskas
- 1992 Mabel Coburn
- 1991 Anthony Pilla
- 1990 Anne Lyman Powers
- 1989 Gay Youse
- 1988 Ellen Wineberg
- 1987 Katherine Meyer
- 1986 Timothy Nichols
- 1985 Cynthia Maurice Garrett
- 1984 Deborah Cornell
- 1983 Lois Tarlow
- 1982 David Ratner
- 1981 Laurence Vinneau, Jr.
- 1980 Lloyd Lillie
