Lieutenant-Governor's Award for High Achievement in the Arts

The Lieutenant Governor's Award for High Achievement in the Arts, previously called the Excellence Awards Program, is an award given annually by the New Brunswick Arts Board to recognise outstanding contribution by artists to the arts in New Brunswick.^[1]

Recipients

High Achievement in Literary Arts

Recipients^[2]

Year	Recipient	Ref.
2009	Rino Morin Rossignol
2009	Raymond Fraser
2010	Beth Powning
2011	France Daigle
2012	M. T. Dohaney
2013	Melvin Gallant
2014	Anne Compton
2015	Jacques Savoie	[3]
2016	M. Travis Lane
2017	Robert Pichette
2019	Wayne Curtis
2021	Daniel H. Dugas	[4]
2024	Valerie Sherrard	[5]

High Achievement in Performing Arts

Recipients^[2]

Year	Recipient	Ref.
2009	Marcel-Romain Thériault
2010	Chantal Cadieux
2010	Calixte Duguay
2011	Patrick Clark
2012	Edith Butler
2013	Jenny Munday
2014	Igor Dobrovolskiy
2015	Jules Boudreau	[3]
2017	Stephen Tobias
2019	Ray Legere
2021	Sandra Le Couteur	[4]
2024	Marshall Button	[6]

High Achievement in Visual Arts

Recipients^[2]

Year	Recipient	Ref.
2009	Roméo Savoie
2011	Yvon Gallant
2012	David Umholtz
2013	Janice Wright Cheney
2014	Anna Torma
2015	Thaddeus Holownia	[3]
2016	Suzanne Hill
2017	Peter Powning
2019	Marie Hélène Allain
2021	Mathieu Léger	[4]
2024	Phil Comeau

High Achievement in Indigenous Arts

Recipients^[2]

Year	Recipient	Ref.
2024	Tara Francis	[7]