The A.P. Anderson Award:

Each year the Center presents the A.P. Anderson Award for Outstanding Contributions to Literature and the Arts in Minnesota.

The 2011 A.P. Anderson Award was presented to arts advocates Lawrence Redmond and Sheila Smith for their role in the passage of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Legacy Amendment to create 25 years of dedicated state funds for the arts and the environment.   Past recipients include:

Emilie Buchwald, editor, publisher and writer 

Kevin Kling, performer and playwright  

Jim Brandenburg, wildlife photographer

Warren MacKenzie, master potter

Lise Houlton, Artistic Director of Minnesota Dance Theatre 

Philip Brunelle, conductor and choral scholar

Betsy Bowen, children's author and illustrator

Patricia Hampl, poet and memoirist

Siah Armajani, sculptor

Libby Larsen, composer

Joe Dowling, artistic director of the Guthrie Theater 

Robert Bly and William Duffy, founders of the Fifties Press

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