| 2012 | Allan Kameron Washington | Virginia/North Carolina | Musical Theater |
| 2011 | Tyner Alexaindre Dumortier | New Jersey | Dance |
| 2010 | Mehdi Okasi | Bloomington | Literature |
| 2009 | John "Jack" Joseph Holloway | Clearwater/Tampa Bay | Drama |
| 2008 | Sarah Mesko | Little Rock | Voice |
| 2007 | Jennifer Davis | Washington, D.C | Art: Water Media |
| 2006 | Krista Ettlinger | BocaRaton/S.Florida | Dance |
| 2005 | Robbie Collier Sublett | New Jersey | Acting For Comedy |
| 2004 | Megan Hilty | Pittsburgh | Musical Theatre |
| 2003 | Susanna Childress | San Antonio | Literature |
| 2002 | Andrea Baiocchi | Bloomingnton | Piano |
| 2001 | Gary Mark | El Paso | Small Sculpture |
| 2000 | April Taylor | Birmingham | Ballet |
| 1999 | Michael Aaron Lindner | St. Louis | Drama |
| 1998 | Laura Kopchick | Mid-Michigan | Literature |
| 1997 | Jeffrey Buchman | Boca Raton | Voice |
| 1996 | Leo Saul Berk | Central Illinois | Art: Ceramics |
| 1995 | Gelan L. Lambert | Boca Raton | Modern Dance |
| 1994 | Rob Johansen | Bloomington | Acting |
| 1993 | Ben Madden | Tucson | Teleplay Writing |
| 1992 | Robert LaRue | Bloomington | Cello |
| Felix Wang | Mid-Michigan | Cello | |
| 1991 | Julie Bradley Nowakowski | St. Louis | Photography |
| 1990 | Stephanie Anne Walz | Washington | Ballet |
| 1989 | Benjamin Livingston | Bloomington | Acting |
| 1988 | Laura Hancock | Birmingham | Short Story |
| 1987 | Kimberly Justus | Empire State | Voice |
| 1986 | Marc A. Sanchez | San Antonio | Oil Painting |
| 1985 | Peter B. Morrison | Empire State | Ballet |
| Andrea S. Frier | Empire State | Modern Dance | |
| 1984 | Oliver O. (Csizmas) Darrow | San Antonio | Acting |
| 1983 | Kim Suzanne Bridgford | North Florida | Poetry |
| 1982 | Jonathan Shames | Champaign-Urbana | Piano |
| 1981 | Laura E. Ryan | Chicago | Drawing |
| 1980 | Bonnie Moore | Arizona | Ballet |
| 1979 | Gilbert McCauley | St. Louis | Acting |
| 1978 | Ruth Harrison Thomas | Washington | Biography |
| 1977 | Gwendolyn Bradley | Pittsburgh | Voice |
| 1976 | Anne E. Parker Diggory | Bloomington | Water Color |
| 1975 | Peter Fonseca | Empire State | Ballet |
| 1974 | Patricia C. Conwell | San Antonio | Drama |
| 1973 | Gil Morgenstern | Empire State | Violin |
| 1972 | Timothy Mason | Northern Minnesota | Playwriting |
| 1971 | James Douglas Butler | St. Louis | Print Making |
| 1970 | Holly Adele Hanson | Santa Barbara | Ballet |
| 1969 | Diana Young | Washington | Drama |
| 1968 | Bruce Stuart Taylor | Pittsburgh | Music Composition |
| 1967 | Arlene Heyman | New Jersey | Literature |
| 1966 | Steven Burt Nussdorf | Empire State | Painting |
| 1965 | Suzanne Rowland | St. Louis | Ballet |
| 1964 | Marianne McAndrew | Chicago | Drama |
| 1963 | Daniel Walsh | Indiana | Voice |
| 1962 | Leonard Fred Scratch | Pasadena | Literature |
| 1961 | Kay Hofmann Schwartz | Chicago | Sculpture |
| 1960 | Mimi Paul | Washington | Ballet |
| 1959 | Dale Benson | Chicago | Drama |
| 1958 | Malcolm Frager | St. Louis | Piano |
| 1954 | John Igo | San Antonio | Letters |
| 1952 | Sidney Shapiro | Indianapolis | Painting |
| 1951 | Hazel Del Nordsieck | Indianapolis | Voice |
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