Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients

 

The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to individuals in the storytelling community who have dedicated their lives to the art form of storytelling and who have demonstrated meritorious service to the National Storytelling Network, as well as to the community of storytellers at large. The individuals who are awarded are those who have expanded public awareness of the art of storytelling by virtue of their preservation of traditional art forms or the significant originality of their body of work.

 

2007

2006

2005

2004

Roslyn Bresnick-Perry

Roslyn
Bresnick-Perry

Lynn Rubright

Lynn Rubright

Connie Regan Blake

Connie Regan-Blake

Anne Pellowski

Anne Pellowski

Barre Toelken

Barre Toelken

Don Doyle

Don Doyle

2003

 

2002

Linda Goss

Linda Goss

Penninah Schram

Peninnah Schram

 

Ellin Greene

Ellin Greene

Norma Livo

Norma Livo

Giola Timpanelli

Giola Timpanelli

2001

 

2000

 

Maggi Peirce

Maggi Peirce

Gamble Rogers

Gamble Rogers

 

Flora Joy

Flora Joy

Frankie & Doug Quimby

Frankie & Doug Quimby

 

1999

 

1998

Brother Blue

Brother Blue

Jimmy Neil Smith

Jimmy Neil Smith

 

Augusta Baker

Augusta Baker

Vi Hilbert

Vi Hilbert

Jackie Torrence

Jackie Torrence

1997

 

1996

 

1995

Doc McConnell

Doc McConnell

 

Gayle Ross

Mary Carter Smith

Kathyrn Windham

Kathryn Windham

 

Ray Hicks

Ray Hicks