The Dickinson College Arts Award
The college’s Arts Award honors an individual or group who has made an outstanding contribution to the
creative or performing arts. Each recipient spends several days in residence at the college sharing talents
and ideas with the college community.
The Arts Award was initiated by the Dickinson faculty and endowed in 1959 by gifts from members of the
board of trustees in honor of William W. Edel, president of the college from 1946 to 1959. Recipients of
the Dickinson College Arts Award are as follows:
Robert Frost, 1958-59, Poetry
Eero Saarinen, 1959-1960, Architecture
Judith Anderson, 1960-61, Theatre
Leonard Baskin, 1963-64, Graphic Arts
Walter Piston, 1965-66, Music
W. H. Auden, 1967-68, Poetry
John Cage, 1969-70, Music
The Philadelphia Orchestra, 1972-73, Music
Mauricio Lasansky, 1974-75, Printmaking
Zelda Fichandler, 1976-77, Drama
John Barth, 1980-81, Literature
Toshiko Takaezu, 1982-83, Ceramics
Thomas Binkley, 1982-83, Music
Pennsylvania Ballet, 1983-84, Dance
David Mamet, 1984-85, Drama
Robert Stone, 1986-87, Literature
Tommy Flanagan, 1988-89, Music
Horton Foote, 1989-90, Cinema
Leon Golub, 1991-92, Painting
Seamus Heaney, 1992-93, Poetry
Twyla Tharp, 1995-96, Dance
Phyllis Bryn-Julson, 1996-97, Music
Julie Harris, 2001, Theatre and Film
Milton Babbitt, 2002, Music
André Gregory, 2005, Theatre and Film
Trisha Brown, 2007, Dance