Awardees

2025 Awardees

• Amara Tabor-Smith/Dancers’ Group, “(May There Be) Good Atmosphere Between Us: The Parables of Now” 
• Ariana Proehl + Art and Everyday People/Betti Ono Foundation, “Art and Everyday People: The Story of the Betti Ono Foundation” 
• Bay Area Independent Chinese Dancers/Shawl Anderson Dance Center, “What Makes Us Great: The Hajj of Syed Muhammad Shamsuddin Al Bukhairi (Admiral Zheng He)” 
• Brotherhood of Elders, “Real Talk About the Town”  
• Civic Design Studio/Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, “PROPA” 
• DANCE ELIXIR, “Happy Days Finale” 
• Dimensions Dance Theater Inc, “Healing to Joy III” 
• EastSide Arts Alliance, “Xochitl Nevel Guerrero: Corn Goddess” 
• Living Jazz, “Tribute to Dr Martin Luther King Jr” 
• NAMI Contra Costa, “Healing Through Art at the Hub”  
• Priyanka Suryaneni/Filmmakers Collaborative SF, “Inkilab (Revolution)” 
• Richmond Art Center, “Tomorrow Stories”  
• Sheilby Macena/Oakland Public Education Center, “Hold Me Tender” 
• Timothy B/Bay Area Mural Program, “We The People!” 
• Walter Hood and Sarita Flor-De Schreiber, “Indigenous Voices: Home, Land, and Language” 

2024 Awardees

• 21V / Fractured Atlas, Inc. “A Screw Plunges to the Ground 
• Cat Brooks / Anti-Police Terror Project 
• Elenita O’Malley / Independent Arts & Media, “Oakland Ilokana” 
• Eric Avery / New Performance Traditions, “The Pla[y/n] for Reparation$” 
• Freddy Padilla and Levonte Crosby / ArtPush, “A Home to Learn and Grow From” 
• Grown Women Dance Collective / Dancers’ Group, “How to Not Get Long Covid? Don’t Get Covid” 
• Jamey Williams / Bay Area Creative, “Mad City” 
• Joti Singh / Dancers’ Group, “Ghadar Geet: Blood and Ink” 
• Kaitlin McGaw and Tommy Soulati Sheperd / SOZO Impact, “Shades” 
• Leslie Lopez and Camilo Velazquez / Youth ALIVE! “Free Your Mind – Life is Beautiful” 
• Maynard Institute for Journalism Education “Changing Lives, Changing Narratives” 
• Muisi-Kongo Malonga / Girls to Women, “Nkunga” 
• NAKA Dance Theater / Dancers’ Group, “Ja weya ob’aj wij, ex weya nchemaj/Mi Historia, Mi Telar/My Story, My Weaving” 
• Nikki Maynard / World Arts West, “Amazed by Grace” 
• Nkeiruka Oruche / Dancers’ Group, “Tales by Moonlight, an Afro Culture Portal (TBM)” 
• Oakland Ballet Company “Angel Island Project” 
• Oakland Technology and Education Center “AfroComicCon presents: The Revolution Will be Illustrated” 
• Oaklash “Tragic Queendom” 
• Papo Rebolledo / ARTogether, “Echoes of Freedom” 
• Pelisa Arts & Energy / World Arts West, “Mbongui Healing Project” 
• Shruti Abhishek Dance / Independent Arts & Media, “And She Spoke” 
• Vital Arts “Symphony No. 1: …And no one died, thus we began to see in the dark”

2023 Awardees

• Alicia Kester / Independent Arts and Media, “Water Spirits” 
• API Cultural Center, Inc. dba Oakland Asian Cultural Center “Interwoven Stories of Culture, Belonging and Change” 
• ARTogether “The Diaspora Hub & Exhibition Project” 
• Bay Area Girls Rock Camp “Sound Saturdays” 
• Berkeley Art Center “Reframing Identity” 
• Bryant Terry / Acta Non Verba: Youth Urban Farm Project, “Visual Food Data/Sacred Larder” 
• Cecilia Cassandra Peña-Govea / Brava! for Women in the Arts, “Auditory Culture Maps of Fruitvale” 
• Clarissa Rivera Dyas and Ainsley Tharp / Circo Zero, “forever failing: two punq grrrls dance” 
• Diamano Coura West African Dance Co “Soundiata Keita; The King Of Mali Story” 
• Dohee Lee / Dancer’s Group, “Ritual On the Road” 
• Elaine Chu and Marina Wong-Perez / Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, “Oakland Chinatown Dragon Mural Project” 
• Faye Carol / Intersection for the Arts, “Black Artists of The Bay: Icons & Unsung” 
• Jackie Keliiaa and John Hodge / Cal Shakes, “Good Medicine Native Comedy” 
• Justin Hoover / 500 Capp Street, “Recipes of Resilience: Harrison Hotel” 
• Karl Evangelista / Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, “Auntie + Tebs” 
• Kimberly Arteche / ARTogether, “Paglilikha ng Kaliliwanann” 
• LaTajh Weaver / Berkeley Community Media, “Can I Paint, Here?” 
• Lena Chen and Evan Sakuma / The Regents of the University of California, “CELESTE” 
• NIAD Art Center “We Are Creating Our History” 
• People’s Programs “Tales of The Town: Berkeley” 
• Poor Magazine “Crushing Wheelchairs the movie” 
• Priyanka Suryaneni / Filmmakers Collaborative SF, “Saranam Gacchâmi (I take refuge)” 
• Tommy Wong and Alana Landrum / Civic Design Studio / Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, “Our Communities: Past, Present, and Future” 
• Torange Yeghiazarian / Central Stage, “Leyla & Majnun” 

2022 Awardees

• Afro Urban Society / Dancer’s Group , “‘One Thing About Us? We Move!’ (WM!” 
• ARTSCCC / Independent Arts and Media“Cultural Corridor Project” 
• Attitudinal Healing Connection, Inc. “Oakland Super Heroes Mural #5 (The Finale)” 
• BoomShake / Intersection for the Arts Music “The Roots Are Strong” 
• Cut Fruit Collective / Possibility Labs “Chinatown Futures” 
• Dads Evoking Change “Hear Us, Heal Us” 
• Dariane Beamon / People’s Community Foundation, “A Village of Voices” 
• Darren Colston / Brothers on the Rise “Hella Love” 
• Dazié Grego-Sykes / QCC-The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture, “The Changer and the Changed” 
• dNaga / Dancer’s Group “Where Am I Now?” 
• Grown Women Dance Collective / Dancer’s Group “A Ballad for John Henry, Chapter 2” 
• Fei Tian Dancers / Associated Students of the University of California “Fei Tian Dancers: Heritage 传承 Showcase” 
• Ishika Seth / Fractured Atlas , “Pehchaan (Identity)” 
• Nadhi Thekkek / Nava Dance Theatre “Foreign Bodies” 
• Nia Imara / EastSide Arts Alliance “Generation of Oakland” 
• Oaklash “Putting the Cheese in Machismo” 
• Tony Nguyen / Farallon Films “TO BE” 
• Valerie Troutt / QCC-The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture “Because of Black Music IAM” 
• Wolfe Pack Arts / Bay Area Mural Program “Immersive Arts Residency” 

2021 Awardees

• A.K. Sandhu / Filmmakers Collaborative “For Love and Legacy” 
• Antoine Hunter / Intersection for the Arts “Native Lands, Native Hands” 
• BAY-Peace / Social Good Fund“Youth ARTS Masterpiece Project” 
• Charmaine Davis / Eastside Arts Alliance “Bismuth” 
• Cheryl Fabio / Sarah Webster Fabio Center For Social Justice “We Need A Home” 
• Edward Gunawan and Juliana Mendonca / ARTogether  “Home Free” 
• India Davis / The Queer Cultural Center “A Spiral Shell” 
• Kala Art Institute “Dear America” 
• Kyung Lee / Wild Projects “We R Here” 
• Nkeiruka Oruche / Dancer’s Group“My Heart Shattered” 
• Oakland Workers Fund with support from Moments Co-op / SOMArts “Oakland Workers Fund Revolutionary PSAs Billboard Project” 
• Offsides Productions / Social Good Fund “Normal Ain’t Normal” 
• Polina Smith / Crescent Moon Theater Productions “HOME?” 
• Richmond Art Center “Art of the African Diaspora: Luminaries” 
• Spencer Wilkinson and Eric Arnold / Community Rejuvenation Project “Boogaloo Originals Education Engagement Project” 

2020 Awardees

• Alena Museum / Taylor Price “Unsung Heroes: The Women of the Black Panther Party”
• Bay Area Mural Program / Andre Jones “Against All Odds”
• Dance Elixir / Leyya Mona Tawil “Malayeen”
• Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation / Dana King the Huey P. Newton Memorial Bust
• Fractured Atlas, Inc. / Zakiya Harris “Embedded”
• Grown Women Dance Collective / Tonya Amos “A Ballad for John Henry”
• NAKA Dance Theater / Debby Kajiyama and José Navarrete “Y Basta Ya!”
• Neighborhood Solutions / Torman Jahi “Bring on the Drums – Community Human Contact Edition”
• Oakland Public Education Fund / Rachel-Anne Palacios “Tomorrow People Program”
• POOR Magazine / Derrick ‘Rtystk’ Shavers “Ancestor Mural Project”
• Richmond Friends of Recreation / Frederick Franklin “Vegan Art: For the Health of It”
• Sozo Impact – Alphabet Rockers / Kaitlin McGawfor and Tommy Shepherd the production of “Transformative Justice: Songs for Children”
• The Beat, Berkeley Performing Arts (BPA) / Gregory Dawson “The Human Project”
• The People’s Conservatory / Cava Menzies “The Legacy Project”
• TheatreFIRST – We Rise Production / Nicole Gervacio “Fighting for Our Motherlands”
• West Oakland Mural Project / Jilchristina Vest “#SayHerName: The Women of The Black Panther Party Mural”
• World Arts West / Latanya Tigner “5th Quarter Bantaba”
• Youth Spirit Artworks / Franz Fischer “Tiny House Village Murals”

2019 Awardees

• Berkeley Art Center Association / Afro-Hippies
• Claudine Naganuma / Dancers’ Group (FS)
• Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi / Freedom Bound Center (Sol Collective DBA) (FS)
• Diamono Coura West African Dance Company / Naomi Diouf
• Destiny Arts Center / Joy Tang
• Jason Ditzian / Dancers’ Group (FS)
• Berkeley Society for the Preservation of Traditional Music dba: Freight and Salvage / John Santos
• Joseph Warner / Eastside Arts Alliance (FS)
• Kala Art Institute Gallery / Ellen Lake
• Intersection for the Arts / Suzanne Lheureux
• Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Center / Tamara Johnston
• Nkeiruka Oruche / Dancer’s Group (FS)
• Oakland Youth Chorus / Keri Butkevich
• Rebeca Garcia-Gonzalez / Groundwork Richmond (FS)
• Richmond Art Center / Amy Spencer
• Robin Gurung / Chinese for Affirmative Action (FS)
• Salma Arastu / Berkeley Art Center (FS)
• Sarah Norr / Intersection for the Arts (FS)
• Freedom Bound Center (Sol Collective DBA) / Sekita Grant
• StoryCenter / Parul Wadhwa
• Tamara Perkins / The Center for Independent Documentary (FS)

2018 Awardees

• Alex Arzt / Pro Arts (FS)
• Aggregate Space Gallery / Leila Weefur
• Angie Wilson / Destiny Arts Center (FS)
• Arash Shirinbab / Oakland Asian Cultural Center (FS)
• Attitudinal Healing Connection / James Gayles
• Berkeley Art Center Association / Jeremiah Jenkins, Leah Rosenberg
• Catchlight / 20+ Bay Area Photographers
• Central Works Theater Ensemble / Cristina Garcia
• Dancers’ Group / Naka Dance Theater
• Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park / Marion Coleman, Ramon Carrillo, Jeff Norman
• Independent Arts and Media / Cristina Garcia
• Jadelynn Stahl / Radar Productions (FS)
• Leyya Mona Tawil / DANCE ELIXIR (FS)
• Music at the Mission / Mark Fish
• Nana Duffuor / QCC-The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture (FS)
• Nkeiruka Oruche / Dancers Group (FS)
• Oakland Asian Cultural Center DBA API Cultural Center, Inc. / Arash Shirinbab
• Oakland Youth Chorus / Hector Armienta
• Prospera Community Development / Gabriel Arvizu
• Ragged Wing Ensemble / Amy Sass
• Sabereh Kashi / Filmmakers Collaborative SF (FS)
• Social Justice Sewing Academy / Alice Beasley
• Tony Nguyen / EastSide Arts Alliance (FS)
• Yvan Iturriaga / Movement Generation (FS)
• Zakiya Harris / Community Initiatives (FS)

2017 Awardees

• Arwen Lawrence / Galería de la Raza (FS)
• Claudine Naganuma / Dancers’ Group (FS)
• Dance Elixir / Leyya Mona Tawil (Lime Rickey International)
• Destiny Arts Center / Risa Jaroslow
• Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi / Freedom Bound Center DBA Sol Collective (FS)
• Embodiment Project / Nicole Klaymoon
• Friends of Idora Park / Kelly Ording
• Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California / Raeshma Razvi
• Jadelynn Stahl / Radar Productions (FS)
• Jim LeBrecht / Center for Independent Documentary (FS)
• Kaitlin McGaw / Intersection for the Arts (FS)
• Kevin Wong / Bay Area Video Coalition (FS)
• Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy / Emiliano Rodriguez, Eugene Rodriguez, Fabiola Trujillo, Lucina Rodriguez, and Shira Kammen
• Mariah Steele / Fractured Atlas (FS)
• Mia Nakano / AACRE (FS)
• Nadhi Thekkek / CountePulse (FS)
• Rosie the Riveter Trust / Carl Bidleman
• RYSE Center/ DeAndre Evans
• Ubuntu Theater Project / Philip Kan Gotanda
• Youth Spirit Artworks / Angel Jesus Perez

2016 Awardees

• Anna Ludwig / The Capoeira Institute, dba Capoeira Mandinga (FS)
• Attitudinal Healing Connection / David Burke
• Bay Area Children’s Theatre (BACT) / Min Kahng
• California Symphony / Lisa Bielawa
• Community Rejuvenation Project / Spencer Wilkinson
• Dan Wolf / Circuit Network (FS)
• Erin Palmquist / Independent Arts & Media (FS)
• Interface Gallery / Cristina Victor
• Jim McSilver / Media Alliance (FS)
• John Sanborn / Musical Traditions (FS)
• Just Theater / Dina Maccabee & Jesse Olson Bay
• Lark Buckingham / SOMArts (FS)
• Micah Bazant / Dancers’ Group (FS)
• Nkeiruka Oruche / Lotus Bloom Child & Family Resource Center (FS)
• Oakland Youth Chorus / Michelle Jacques
• Ragged Wing Ensemble / Anna Shneiderman
• Rebecca Schultz / Independent Arts & Media (FS)
• Sacred Profane / James Tecuatl-Lee

2015 Awardees

• Bandaloop / Amelia Rudolph
• Delina Brooks / Delina Brooks, Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi
• Ensemble Mik Nawooj / JooWan Kim
• Gamelan Sekar Jaya / Wayne Vitale
• Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California / Arash Shirinbab, Maryan Vesal
• Kaitlin McGaw, Tommy James Shepherd, Jr. / Alphabet Rockers (FS)
• Katrina Wreede / San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music (FS)
• La Pena Cultural Center / Maria de la Rosa
• Leslie Dreyer / ShadowLight Productions (FS)
• Marc Bamuthi Joseph / Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Amara Tabor-Smith, David Szlasa
• Nicole Klaymoon / Destiny Arts Center (FS)
• North American Guqin Association / Wang Fei
• RYSE Center / Nyabingha Zianni McDowell

2014 Awardees

• Adrienne Skye Roberts / California Coalition for Women Prisoners (FS)
• Bay Area Children’s Theatre / Austin Zumbro
• Constance Hockaday / RADAR Productions (FS)
• Diablo Ballet / Sonya Delwaide
• Frederick Franklin / Coronado Neighborhood Council (FS)
• Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park / Walter Hood
• Helen Stoltzfus / ALICE Arts (FS)
• Jun Stinson / Many Threads (FS)
• Navarrete x Kajiyama Dance Theater (NAKA) / Debby Kajiyama and Jose Navarrete
• Oakland Ballet / Sonya Delwaide, Molissa Fenley, and Robert Moses
• Oakland Youth Chorus / Marcus Shelby
• Pro Arts / Rhonda Holberton, Ben Bigelow, Cate White, and Ehren Tool
• Raeshma Razvi / Fractured Atlas (FS)
• Salma Arastu / The Chaplaincy Institute, An Interfaith Seminary and Community (FS)
• Shotgun Players / Don Wolf and Olive Mitra
• Stagebridge / Joan Holden, Bruce Barthol, and Daniel Savio
• Subterranean Arthouse/Tree of Life / Hiroko Tamano
• Tal Skloot / Baykids (FS)
• True Life Trio / Leslie Bonnett, Briget Boyle and Juliana Graffagna

2013 Awardees

• 29th Jewish Music Festival / Paul Hanson
• Ben Bernstein / The Singer’s Gym (FS)
• Community Rejuvenation Project / Desi Mundo
• Cross Pulse / Keith Terry
• Crowden Music Center / Samuel Adams
• Diablo Ballet / Robert Dekkers
• Dohee Lee / Dancer’s Group (FS)
• Living Jazz / Marcus Shelby
• Robin Lynn Rodriguez/ PlayGround Foundation (FS)
• Thingamajigs / Brenda Hutchinson, Sudhu Tewari, Steve Dye, and Kristin Miltner
• Tony Nguyen / Farallon Films (FS)
• Traci Bartlow /Eastside Arts Alliance (FS)

2012 Awardees

• Ann Schnake and Sanjit Sethi
• Berkeley Symphony /Dylan Mattingly
• Claudine Naganuma / PD Active
• Diamano Coura West African Dance Company /Nimely Napla
• East Bay Center for the Performing Arts /Jeannie Barroga
• Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California /Torange Yeghiazarian
• Kitka /Austin Forbord
• Muisi-kongo Malonga / Dimensions Dance Theater
• Navarrete x Kajiyama Dance Theater / Jose Navarrete and Debby Kajiyama
• Oakland Asian Cultural Center / Prasant Radhakrishnan
• Shotgun Players /Josh Kornbluth
• Thomas Wong / Chinatown Chamber Foundation

2011 Awardees

• Aimee Suzara / CounterPULSE
• Amy X Neuburg / Paul Dresher Ensemble
• Anna Ludwig / Capoeira Mandinga
• Bay Area Children’s Theatre / Min Kahgn
• Ben Wang / Chinese for Affirmative Action
• Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive / Barry McGee
• Carolina Lugo’s & Carole Acuna’s Ballet Flamenco / Carolina Lugo & Carole Acuna
• Claudina Naganuma / Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center
• Diablo Ballet / Val Caniparoli
• Edward Schoker and Greg Giovanni / Theatre of Yugen
• Eugene Corr / The Moenkopi Group, Inc.
• Evan Bissell / Intersection for the Arts
• Favianna Rodriguez / ShadowLight Productions
• Kitka / Janet Kutulas and Elizabeth Setzer
• La Peña Cultural Center / Erin Yoshi
• Mo Morris / San Francisco Film Society
• Oakland Asian Cultural Center / Jay Loyola
• Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir / Dan Cantrell
• Pacific Pinball Museum / Dan Fontes, Ed Cassel, d’Arci Bruno and Eric Kos
• Salma Aratsu / International Association of Sufism
• Shotgun Players / Ken Slattery
• Stagebridge / Joan Holden

2010 Awardees

• Allen Shearer / American Music Center
• Amara Tabor-Smith / La Pena Cultural Center
• Ben Goldberg / The 26th Jewish Music Festival
• Berkeley Symphony / Gabriela Lena Frank
• Berkeley West Edge Opera / Clark Suprynowicz & Amanda Moody
• Central Works / Brian Thorstenson
• Christine Garrigan / Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
• Christopher White / Intersection for the Arts
• Daven Gee / Kathadin Productions
• Desi Mundo / Community Rejuvenation Project
• Helen De Michiel / Citizen Film, Inc.
• Jeff Raz / Bay Area Children’s Theatre
• John Santos / La Pena Cultural Center
• Kimiko Guthrie / Shawl-Anderson Dance Center
• Linda Tillery / Rhythmic Concepts, Inc.
• Marc Bamuthi Joseph / Youth Speaks, Inc.
• Mark Jackson / Aurora Theatre Company
• Mark Jackson / Shotgun Players
• Muisi-kongo Malonga /Fua Dia Congo
• Nanette McGuiness / Trinity United Methodist Church
• Naruda Michael Walden / Oakland East Bay Symphony
• Oakland Ballet Company / Sonya Delwaide-Nichols
• Oakland East Bay Symphony / Scott Amendola
• Oakland Youth Orchestra / Hector Armienta
• Paige Sterling Sorvillo / Tree of Life
• Shotgun Players / Mark Jackson
• The Crucible / Clark Suprynowicz and Mark Streshinsky
• Wayne Vitale / Asian Art Museum

2009 Awardees

• Dan Plonsey & Eric Kupers / Jewish Music Festival
• Daven Gee / Katahdin Productions
• Dohee Lee / Oakland Asian Cultural Center
• Emiko Saraswati Susilo & Rashidi Omari Byrd / Gamelan Sekar Jaya
• Francis Wong / Oakland Asian Cultural Center
• Jill Togawa, Ellen Reiko Bepp & Masayuki Koga / Purple Moon Dance Project
• John Santos / Eastside Arts Alliance
• Jon Tracy & Daniel Bruno / Shotgun Players
• Julie Plasencia / Rock Paper Scissors
• Kat Parra / The Jazz School
• Kerri Gawryn / Youth Movement Records
• Khalil Shaheed / Dimension’s Dance Theater
• Martha Boesing / Stagebridge
• Maston Bates & Benjamin Shwartz / Mercury Soul
• Omid Zoufonoun / Oakland Youth Orchestra
• Rebecca Mauleon / Oakland East Bay Symphony
• Sarah E. Wilson / Intersection for the Arts
• Scott Oliver, Mark Gergis, Maria Porges & Michael Blodgett / Oakland Museum of CA
• Shira Kammen & Ben Bernstein / The Singer’s Gym
• Tamara Perkins & Jesse Dana / SF Film Society

2008 Awardees

• Akosua Mireku / Epic Arts
• Ambrose Akinmusire / Jazzschool, Inc.
• Anton Patzner / Moving Arts Dance
• Cheryl Leonard, Rebecca Haseltine, Gilbert Guerrero & Kathleen Quillian / The Illuminated Corridor
• Delina Patrice Brooks / Youth Speaks
• Josh Costello / Shotgun Players
• Larry Batiste & Clayton Richardson / Youth Movement Records
• Laura Elder / ArtsChange
• Mateen Kemet / Intersection for the Arts
• Mirah Moriarty, Rodrigo Esteva, Loren Robertson & Laura Inserra / Dance Monks
• Naomi Kremer & Ariel Parkinson / Berkeley Opera
• Nomi Talisman / Judah L. Magnes Museum
• Octavio Solis / CalShakes
• Philip Huang / Oakland Asian Cultural Center
• Rigo 23 / Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

2007 Awardees

• Atemu Aton / Savage Jazz Dance Company
• Christina Agamanolis, Matthew Antaky & Lawrence LaBianca / Fellow Travelers Performance Group
• Eugene Rodriguez & Los Cenzontles / Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
• Joe Goode / AXIS Dance
• Mason Bates / California Symphony
• Matthew Cmiel / The Crowden Music Center
• Paige Starling Sorvillo / Noodle Factory Performing Arts Center
• Sonal Acharya / Opera Piccola

2006 Awardees

• Albert Greenberg & Annie Hallatt / ALICE Arts
• Belinda Reynolds / Galax Quartet
• Carlos Reyes / Dancer Elixir
• Dan Cantrell / Jewish Music Festival
• Daniel David Feinsmith / Pacific Chamber Symphony
• David Szlasa / Moving Arts Dance
• Elinor Armer / Oakland Youth Orchestra
• Marc Bamuthi Joseph / Youth Speaks
• Margaret Jenkins / AXIS Dance Company
• Mary Watkins / Oakland Opera Theater
• Paul Flores / La Pena Cultural Center
• Peter Howkinson / Pro Arts
• Shailja Patel / La Pena Cultural Center
• Tania Padillia & Emily Butterfly / ArtsChange

2005 Awardees

• Carlos Mena / Dream Dance Company
• CK Ladzekpo / East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
• Daniel David Feinsmith, Amy X Neuburg, John Schott & Paul Dresher / Jewish Music Festival
• Favianna Rodriguez / Eastside Arts Alliance
• Jorge Lederman / Pacific Chamber Symphony
• Mark Jackson / Shotgun Players
• Nikolai Kabaniaev / Diablo Ballet
• Tomye Neal-Madison / Prescott Joseph Center

2004 Awardees

• Jon Jang / Eastside Arts Alliance
• Kurt Rhode / Berkeley Symphony
• Rita Moreno / Berkeley Repertory Theatre
• Sean San Jose, Ricky Marshall & Ryan Peters / California Shakespeare Theater
• Sonya Delwaide & Joan Jeanrenaud / AXIS Dance Company
• Taraneh Hemami, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood & Ann Schnake / Arts Change

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