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Humanities Texas Awards
The Humanities Texas Awards recognize imaginative leadership in the humanities on a local, regional, or state level. Two awards are presented: one for individual achievement, another for organizational achievement.
Humanities Texas will next present the Humanities Texas Awards in 2010; nominations will be accepted beginning in the fall of 2009. Nominees might include a local library that has started an especially effective reading and lecture series; a group whose work has advanced heritage tourism efforts; or an individual who has developed a significant public program grounded in history, literature, philosophy, archaeology, folklore, or another humanities discipline.
The winning individual and organization will each receive a cash award of $5,000. Nominated individuals must reside in Texas, and organizations must be based in the state.
Humanities Texas will invite nominations for the 2010 award in its monthly e-newsletter. Please sign up if you'd like to be alerted when the nomination forms are available.
Previous winners
- 2009
- Frances Brannen Vick , Dallas (individual achievement)
- The Museum of the the Big Bend, Alpine(organizational achievement)
- 2008
- Clifton and Shirley Caldwell, Albany (individual achievement)
- Brownsville Historical Association (organizational achievement)
Prior to 2003, Humanities Texas recognized outstanding Texas humanists with the James F. Veninga Excellence in the Humanities Award. Past recipients of the Veninga award included:
- 2002/2003
- Harold Courson, Perryton
- 2001
- The Education Outreach Program (EPO) of the Houston World Affairs Council
- 2000
- Carol H. Nicklaus, Amarillo