Catharine E. B. Cox Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts

The Catharine E. B. Cox Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts is a biannual award given to a visual artist who either lives in Hawaii or was born in Hawaii. The recipient may work in any medium, and is honored with a solo exhibition at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. The award was established in 1985 by Charles S. Cox of La Jolla, California, Doak C. Cox of Honolulu and Richard H. Cox of Honolulu to honor their grandmother, Catharine Elizabeth Bean Cox.

Recipients of the award were:

1990 Dorothy Faison
1992 Michael Tom
1994 Laura Smith
1996 Shigeru Miyamoto
1998 Hanae Uechi Mills
2000 Renee Iijima
2002 Yida Wang
2004 Lonny Tomono
2006 Ka‘ili Chun
2008 Leland Miyano
2010 Sanit Khewhok^[1]

Also see:

Catharine Elizabeth Bean Cox

Notes

^ Victoria Gail-White (January 10, 2010). "Island renaissance artist Khewhok wins Cox Award". Honolulu Advertiser. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2010/Jan/10/il/hawaii1100317.html. Retrieved November 17, 2010.

References

Bean, Bernie, The Life and Family of John Bean of Exeter and his Cousins, Seattle, John Bean of Exeter Family Association, 1970.
Ceramics Monthly, Mar. 1997, Vol. 45 Issue 3, p. 14.
Sanborn, Curt, Hana Hou!, The Magazine of Hawaiian Airlines, Vol. 11, No. 4, Aug./Sept., 2008.