Over the years, Broward County Cultural Division has been the proud recipient of numerous awards, in showmanship for dedication to government programming, graphic design elements, design and greenways master plan, all which celebrate the overall dedication to the arts and culture within the county.

Members of the National Association of County Information Officers (NACIO) NACIO strives to create a better understanding of the duties of county government and to improve the communication skills of NACIO members and all other county officials. In order of importance, the awards are given as: Best in Class, Superior, Excellence, and Meritorious, and the following is the class and category of the Division’s winning eight.

2008

2007

2006

2005

Sponsored by the American Advertising Federation (AAF), the ADDY® Awards—often referred to as the Grammys of the South Florida advertising industry—honor excellence in advertising and cultivate the highest creative standards. Each fall the competition begins at the local level with the 210 AAF member clubs around the country. Entries must first be submitted in a local competition to be eligible for the ADDY® process. The local winners proceed to 14 regional competitions, and those winners proceed to the national finals. With 60,000 entries, the ADDY® Awards are the nation’s largest advertising competition.

The Broward County Cultural Division received the following ADDY® awards:

2006:  a Silver ADDY® award for the Public Art and Design Online Web Tour

2005:  A Silver ADDY® award for 4 bookmarks commemorating Broward's Public Art
2004:  A Gold ADDY® award for fine-arts magazine, Cultural Quarterly
A Silver ADDY® award for Arts License Plate Campaign poster

	Americans for the Arts -National Award
Each year, Americans for the Arts recognizes elected officials and legendary artists who have exhibited outstanding leadership in the advancement of the arts at the national, state, and local levels. The recipient of the 2004 National Award for County Arts Leadership was the Broward County Board of County Commissioners from Broward County, Florida.

In December 2005, the National Endowment for the Arts announced that the Broward County Board of County Commission’s Cultural Division was the recipient of a $30,000 grant. The Division will use this Access to Artistic Excellence grant award for an E- Marketing Program, a Regional Shared Database and Electronic Advertisements.

The Access to Artistic Excellence grant category funds projects that are of a national, regional, or field-wide significance, and that are likely to serve as models for the field. Funds in the amount of $20.4 million will be awarded to 844 grants across the county, and this is one of 19 grants within the state of Florida, through the Access to Artistic Excellence category as well as Literature Fellowships for individuals.
 

Additionally, the award builds on a VisionBROWARD Creative Industries Task Force recommendation, to support a “sense of place” and “foster excellence in public and private sector community design, historic preservation and establish private development initiatives for public art.”

 

	Designing the World’s Best Public Art

In 2002, four of Broward County’s public artworks were listed in an Australian Publication Designing the World’s Best Public Art listed among an international ensemble of some of the world’s finest public artworks. The 200-page, richly bound and dramatically displayed book is a work of art itself, and features artwork from California, Denver, Arizona, New York and Indiana, and then internationally from Spain, Cuba, Japan and The Czech Republic.

Each artist and each program in Designing the World’s Best Public Art is considered to be among the world’s best and this book features some of the most outstanding works of public art ever presented in one volume. The Cultural Affairs Division’s Public Art & Design Program proudly showcases: Broward County’s Judicial Complex, Accordant Zones, 1994, artist Barbara Neijna & Ned Smith; Port Everglades, Calypso 1998, Tobey Archer; SW Regional Library, Everglades Trespass, 2000, Carl Cheng and Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport, Light Cylinders, 2001, Jody Pinto and readers get an up-close look at some of the finest public artwork in Broward County.

In 2005 Broward County Commission’s Cultural Division, and Parks and Recreation Division, recently received recognition for the Theater of Regeneration, Park Bond Master Plan from the National Association of Counties Achievement Award Program.

This award program recognizes counties for improving the management and services provided by county government. Awards are made in more than twenty categories, ranging from Arts and Historic Preservation to Volunteerism.

“I remember this program particularly,” says Jacqueline Byers, director of research at NACo, “as an example of outstanding leadership in an arts environment. With a three pronged approach a) strong commitment by county commissioners through the referendum for funding b) all-inclusive team to develop the program—artists, city officials, environmental experts, cultural area leaders c)  and momentum, the project is actually moving along.”

The Park Bond Master Plan Theatre of Regeneration: towards an aesthetic of layers, loops, and lenses tells a story about Broward County’s landscape and the social and ecological processes that have acted upon it. The Plan gives a framework for conceptualizing, locating, and linking art projects within the unfolding drama of Broward’s landscape ecology. Within a thirty-year vision and two- and ten year implementation plans, sixteen projects are linked by eight physical and conceptual loop designs.

Environmental artist Lorna Jordan and her design team were chosen from a highly competitive group of 50 artists’ teams to create a Master Plan for parks and natural areas.

	Environmental Design Research Assoc. Award
In 2004 the Cultural Division's Public Art & Design Program was pleased to announce that the Park & Land Bond Public Art Master Plan received an Environmental Design Research Association Place Planning Award. The EDRA/Places awards are sponsored in cooperation with Metropolis magazine. The awards recognize professional and scholarly excellence in environmental design. Now in its tenth year, the program is distinguished by its interdisciplinary focus, its concern for human factors in the design of the built environment, and its commitment to promoting links between design research and practice.
	Save Outdoor Sculpture "SOS"
In 1999 the Cultural Division's Public Art & Design Program won First Place Achievement Award from SOS.  SOS is a national project to preserve the country's artistically and historically significant sculpture.  Broward's program was honored for implementing a 2% for Art ordinance which includes a provision establishing a permanent maintenance trust fund for its collection.