| 2011 Recipients of the Governor's, State Council on the Arts & Alaska Arts and Culture Foundation Awards |
| Governor's Awards for the Arts and Humanities are: |
| Arts Awards: Margaret Nick Cooke Award for Alaska Native Arts and Languages: Dr. Maryanne Allan (Fairbanks) Individual Artist Award: Arthur William "Bill" Brody (Fairbanks) Lifetime Achievement: Jeff Brown (Juneau) Business Leadership: Mike Powers, Chief Executive Officer, Fairbanks Memorial Hospital (Fairbanks) Arts Advocacy: Tom Heywood (Haines) Business Leadership: Mike McCormick, Owner, Whistling Swan Productions (Eagle River) Shared Arts and Humanities Special Award: Carol Comeau, Superintendent, Anchorage School District (Anchorage) Humanities Awards: Jim Rearden (Homer) Dr. Ray Barnhardt (Fairbanks) Dr. Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley (posthumous), (Fairbanks) Dr. Maryanne Allan, Fairbanks, Margaret Nick Cooke Award for Native Arts and Languages: Dr. Allan is a retired elementary school educator in the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District. She founded the Athabascan Young Fiddlers Program 15 years ago, when she realized that native students were not represented in school district musical events. Since that time the program has flourished, and now has over 40 students, kindergarten through high school, in the program. Tom Heywood, Haines, Arts Advocacy Award: Tom Heywood is the owner of the Babbling Book bookstore in Haines. For the last 16 years, as a volunteer leader of the Haines Arts Council, Tom has been key to bringing a variety of high quality performing arts and culture events to that remote community. |
| 2011 Connie Boochever Fellowships ($2,500 each) |
| James
Adcox, visual artist, Nome; Michael Conti, photography and video, Anchorage; Ben Huff, photography, Juneau; Wendy Gingell, ceramic artist, Anchorage |
| These recipients chosen by the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the Alaska Arts and Culture Foundation |
