The Irving and Yvonne Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement is an unrestricted award of $10,000. The award is given annually to a Washington State female visual artist, age 60 or over, who has dedicated 25 or more years of her life to creating art. The award recognizes creative excellence, professional accomplishment and dedication to the visual arts.

A two-step process is used to select the annual recipient of the Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement open nomination, followed by a peer panel review. Nominations are accepted from anyone wishing to nominate eligible candidates and fulfill all requirements of the nomination process. A peer panel comprised of three visual artists and/or arts professionals select the award recipient.

When affirmation comes along I am bouyed and encouraged to press on.
And press on, I will. —2009 Twining Humber Recipient, Anne Hirondelle

Nomination Deadline
The deadline for 2009 is past.  The 2010 Twining Humber Nomination form will be available Summer 2010.

Eligibility
To be eligible for consideration, nominees must be a Washington State resident, female, age 60 or older, and have a minimum 25-year record of creating art. Any U.S. resident may nominate an artist who meets the eligibility requirements.

How to Receive a Nomination Form
(Available two months prior to the deadline date)

• Artist Trust members may receive a form by request.
  Please email your request to: monica@artisttrust.org
  
  
• Non-members may request forms and guidelines by sending a self-addressed, stamped, business-sized envelope to:

• Online applications are available in PDF* format. To be notified when applications are available, please subscribe to (re)Source.
  
  
• Visit Artist Trust's office to pick up an application and look at examples of successful applications.

Recipients
To see past Twining Humber Award recipients, click here.

Statistics
To view statistics about the Twining Humber Award applicants, click here.

Panelists
To view past panelists click here.

Yvonne Twining Humber
This award is made possible by a generous gift from Yvonne Twining Humber to the Artist Trust Endowment Fund. Yvonne, who passed away in May 2004, was a painter of both urban and rural landscapes, and was employed by the Works Progress Administration from 1935 to 1943. Originally from New York City, Yvonne was raised in England and New England and then lived in Washington State for over 50 years. Yvonne established, with the estate she and her husband built together, a means to recognize women artists who have dedicated a lifetime to their artwork. Click here to read a profile of Yvonne Twining Humber.

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