Governor's Arts Awards
Lotte Jacobi Living Treasure Award

The Lotte Jacobi Living Treasure Award recognizes a professional New Hampshire artist, in any discipline, who has made a significant contribution to his or her art form and to the arts community of New Hampshire, reflecting a lifetime of achievement.

This award is named for the late Johanna Alexandra (Lotte) Jacobi (1896-1990), a photographer of great national and international renown. Jacobi emigrated from her native Germany to the United States and spent her later years as a resident of Deering, New Hampshire.

• 2023 - Greg Gathers, theatre arts
• 2021 - Al Jaeger, potter
• 2019 - Sylvia Nicolas, stained glass artist & sculptor
• 2017 - Richard Whitney, painter
• 2015 - Jere Osgood, woodworker / furniture maker
• 2013 - Marguerite Mathews, stage performer
• 2011 - Jon Brooks, furniture maker & sculptor
• 2007 - Marilyn Ziffrin, composer
• 2005 - Gerry Williams, studio potter
• 2003 - Edwin and Mary Scheier, potters
• 2001 - Rawn Spearman, stage performer
• 1999 - Tomie dePaola, author & illustrator
• 1997 - John Woodsum Hatch, painter
• 1995 - Donald Hall, poet & author
• 1993 - Herbert Waters, printmaker
• 1991 - Robert Hughes, sculptor & printmaker
• 1989 - Karl Drerup, visual artist
• 1980 - Lotte Jacobi, photographer

Last updated: October 30, 2023