From 1990 – 2019, Masterworks honored deserving individuals with its annual Salute to the Arts Award. Award recipients played prominent roles in fostering the arts in the South Sound, truly shaping the region’s cultural landscape through their talent, energy, and commitment. The yearly recipients significantly altered our community’s cultural landscape through their continued contributions of time, talent and energy to all of the arts in our region.

Recipients were integral in forming, creating, and sustaining such vibrant elements of our community as: The Olympia Symphony, The Washington Center, The Procession of the Species, Harlequin Theater, the Olympia Opera Guild, Masterworks Choral Ensemble, Capital Playhouse, Creative Theater Experience, and The Tacoma and Olympia Youth Symphonies. In addition, Salute to the Arts recipients , through their public and private studio teaching, helped create new generations of artists that continue to enrich us all. To all award winners, we express our deepest appreciation. We salute you!