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Doris Darling Memorial Award

The Doris Darling Award, the most prestigious Guild Award, named in honor and memory of charter Guild member Doris Mitman Darling, honors a Guild member whose generous volunteer contributions have benefited both the Guild and Huntsville Museum of Art. This Guild member, through dedicated efforts and volunteerism, has generously shared their time, labor, talents, and knowledge and has inspired others through their continued service, embracing both the mission and vision of the Guild and the Huntsville Museum of Art over an extended period of time.

Recipients of the Doris Darling Memorial Award are as follows:

Stellar Service Award

The Stellar Service Award honors an active Guild member with 6-10 years of membership whose activity and participation has impacted the Guild in many ways, including but not limited to organizing, managing, generating new initiatives, bringing people and art together, and embracing the Guild’s mission and vision.

Recipients of the Stellar Service Award are as follows:

Rising Star Award

The Rising Star Award honors a newer active Guild member with 2 -5 years of membership whose activity and participation has impacted the Guild in various ways including, but not limited to, organizing, managing, generating new initiatives, bringing people and art together, and embracing the Guild’s mission and vision.

Recipients of the Rising Star Award are as follows:

Dr. Mabry Miller Educational Scholarship Award

The Dr. Mabry Miller Scholarship Award, established in 2015 in honor and memory of devoted Guild member Mabry Miller, is provided to an art educator whose students have participated in the Huntsville Museum of Art Youth Art Month (YAM) event.

Recipients of the Mabry Miller Scholarship are as follows:

2021:
Katie Blair, Art Teacher
Academy at Athens Elementary School
FAME Academy at Brookhill

Guild Community Award Winners
Governor’s Arts Award

HMA Volunteer of the Year Awards

Virginia Hammill Simms Memorial Award

The Virginia Hammill Simms Award is a community-driven award recognizing volunteer efforts to the arts in the Huntsville/Madison County ARTS community over an extended period of time. The award is sponsored, administered, and annually awarded by the Community Ballet Association.

Recipients of the Virginia Hammill Simms Memorial Award are as follows:

Katherine & Richard Lester Emerging Arts Contribution Award

The Katherine & Richard Lester Emerging Arts Contribution Award is a community-driven award recognizing an individual who is newer to the arts community but whose volunteer contributions during the past year have dramatically impacted the Huntsville/Madison County arts community. Nominees cannot be older than forty (40) years of age and must have lived in the Huntsville/Madison County area for no less than two (2) years. The award is sponsored, administered, and annually awarded by the Community Ballet Association.

Recipients of the Katherine & Richard Lester Emerging Arts Contribution Award are as follows:

2018:
Courtney Allen

Sustaining Service Award

The Sustaining Service Award honors an active Guild member with more than 10 years of membership whose activity and participation have impacted the Guild by serving in vital, often behind-the-scenes, roles to support and sustain the organization.

Girl Scouts of North Central Alabama Women’s Scroll of Honor

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