AHN AWARD
Each year the Arts and Healing Network honors a healing artist who is truly making a difference in the world. AHN offers this award as a surprise gift. There is no application. Our hope is that this award will offer the recipient inspiration and support to continue and expand their outstanding work. We also hope it will inspire visitors to our site and light the way for other healing artists.
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2008 Award: Rachel Bagby
Since 1985, Rachel Bagby has pioneered vibralingual practices that help people form vocal communities for ecological and social healing. A vocal artist, writer, composer, teacher and founder of Choral Earth, Rachel is internationally recognized for inspiring multiple generations to bring their voices to life.
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2007 Award: Lynne Hull
For over 20 years, Lynne Hull has pioneered Òtrans-speciesÓ art, creating sculptural installations that provide wildlife habitat enhancement and eco-atonement for human impact. As an environmental artist, she believes that the creativity of artists can be applied to real world problems and can have an effect on urgent social and environmental issues.
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2006 Award: Anna Halprin
Anna Halprin is a pioneer and innovator in dance and expressive arts. As a performer, choreographer, teacher, and founder of the Tamalpa Institute, she has introduced countless people to the transformative and healing power of dance.
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2005 Award: Tim Lefens
Artist and author Tim Lefens is the founder of Artistic Realization Technologies (A.R.T.), a New Jersey-based nonprofit creating tools and techniques that allow for the uncompromised creative self-expression of those with the most severe physical challenges.
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2004 Award: Bill Talen
Bill Talen is an artist and activist whose public performances as
Reverend Billy from the Church of Stop Shopping very effectively call into question America's mindless consumption of resources and encourage people to reexamine their values.
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2003 Award: Patricia Johanson
Since 1968, Patricia Johanson has been creating works that honor nature and the earth, applying her skills as an artist toward solving environmental issues such as sewage treatment and balancing ecosystems.
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2002 Award: Lily Yeh
Lily Yeh is the founder of the Village of Arts and Humanities which for over 15 years has been facilitating major transformations in inner-city Philadelphia through the creation of community gardens, murals and other artwork.
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2001 Award: Bonnie Ora Sherk
Bonnie Sherk, an artist and educator, is also the founder and president of Life Frames, Inc. whose mission is to develop site-specific, culturally-sensitive designs for community learning environments.
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2000 Award: Betsy Damon
Betsy Damon creates environmental artworks that address issues of water conservation, and her most recent work includes the Living Waters Park in Chengdu, China.
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1999 Award: Marilyn Wood
Marilyn Wood is director of the International Center for Celebration whose mission is "to discover the role of celebration as a vital element within our global community and to promote the creation of new celebrations that nurture the essence and spirit of peoples everywhere."
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1998 Award: Bill Witherspoon
Bill Witherspoon creates visionary environmental art that has demonstrated how creative acts of reverence and gratitude to the earth are effective in increasing earth productivity and decreasing earth toxicity.
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