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.
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:
The Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (CPAC), and ArtServe, Inc.
2012: a Silver ADDY® award for the 2011 Arts Teacher of the Year Invitation
2011: a Silver ADDY® award for the Creative Broward 2020 campaign
2010: a Silver ADDY® award for the Gallery Guide 2009 (PDF)
2009: a Silver ADDY® award for the Cultural Quarterly Online Arts Magazine
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 and A Silver ADDY® award for Arts License Plate Campaign poster

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 awards.
2018 |
Description/Title |
Category |
Award Level |
Broward Arts Monthly Newsletter |
Email Newsletter to Citizens |
Superior |
Broward Arts Facebook Page |
Best Facebook |
Superior |
Art Hive Magazine |
Feature Writing and Columns |
Superior |
Pioneer Day 2017 |
Graphics for Brochures and Publications |
Excellence |
Annual Planning Forum 2017 |
Ceremonies / Community Events |
Excellence |
Arts Ed Forever / Arts Teacher of the Year |
Ceremonies / Community Events |
Excellence |
A Fresh Cup of Art |
Ceremonies / Community Events |
Excellence |
Broward Cultural Division Strategic Plan |
Annual Reports |
Excellence |
A Conversation with Sarah Thornton |
One-page Brochure |
Meritorious |
Pioneer Day 2017 |
Ceremonies / Community Events |
Meritorious |
2017 |
Description/Title |
Category |
Award Level |
Counterpoints Photography Project |
Photography |
Superior |
Arts Calendar Blog |
News writing |
Superior |
ArtsEd Forever Brochure and Publicity |
brochures and publications |
Superior |
Broward Arts Monthly Email |
Email newsletter |
Superior |
Destination Sistrunk / Cultural Marketplace |
Outdoor Event Special projects |
Superior |
'Sailfish Ascending' Counterpoints Photograph |
Photograph |
Excellence |
Rainbow's End - Airport Terrazzo Unveiling |
Special graphics |
Excellence |
Cultural Quarterly Online Edition |
Email newsletter |
Excellence |
Cultural Quarterly - Print Edition |
Publications |
Meritorious |
Broward Arts Facebook Page |
Best Facebook page |
Meritorious |
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2016 |
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Description/Title |
Category |
Award Level |
Cultural Quarterly Flip Book |
Electronic Publications: Websites |
Best of Class |
Museum and Gallery Guide |
Brochures: Multiple Page Booklets |
Superior |
Public Art at Port Everglades |
Brochures: One Page |
Superior |
Cultural E-News |
Electronic Communications:Email Newsletter |
Superior |
Promotional Campaign and Advertising Plan for We, the Passion and Rhythm of the People |
Special Projects: Ceremonies or Community Events |
Superior |
Cultural Quarterly Flip Book |
Electronic Publications: Websites |
Superior |
Broward Cultural Division brochure |
Brochures: Multiple Pages |
Excellent |
Arts Calendar Weekly email |
Electronic Communications: Email |
Excellent |
State of the Art License Plate |
Public Education: Campaign or Event |
Excellent |
Culturally Speaking - column in Go Riverwalk |
Writing: Feature Writing or Columns |
Excellent |
Grants Pocket Guide |
Category: Publications: External |
Meritorious |
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2015 |
Description/Title |
Category |
Award Level |
Cultural Quarterly, Spring/Summer 2014 Issue |
Publications |
Best of Class |
Broward 100 at the Block Party |
External Publications |
Excellent |
Broward 100 Press Kit |
External Publications |
Excellent |
Broward 100 Public Education |
Public Education Campaign |
Excellent |
Creative and Cultural Industries Symposium |
Ceremonies/Community Events |
Meritorious |
Broward Moments |
Public Education Campaign |
Meritorious |
Broward 100 Website |
Website |
Meritorious |
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2014
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Description/Title |
Category |
Award Level |
Cultural Quarterly Magazine |
Website |
Superior |
Broward Cultural Division E-News |
Writing: Promotional/Persuasive Writing |
Meritorious |
Commissioner Chip LaMarca Accepts AFTA Award |
Speech Writing |
Meritorious |
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2013
|
Description/Title |
Category |
Award Level |
Economic Impact of Broward's Nonprofit Arts & Culture |
Brochures, Multiple-page Booklets |
Best of class |
Broward Cultural Division E-News |
Promotional/Persuasive Writing |
Superior |
ArtsCalendar.com |
Brochures, Multiple-page Booklets |
Excellence |
Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute Campaign |
Brochures, Multiple-page Booklets |
Meritorious |
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2012
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Description/Title |
Category |
Award Level |
Cultural Division website |
Digital Media |
Meritorious |
2011 |
Description/Title |
Category |
Award Level |
"Culturally Speaking" column- Go Riverwalk |
Writing, Feature Writing |
Excellence |
Broward Life Line & the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act |
Graphic Design |
Superior |
CreativeBROWARD 2020: A Plan for Cultural & Economic Development in Broward County |
Graphic Design |
Meritorious |
2010 |
Description/Title |
Category |
Award Level |
Museum and Gallery Guide |
Brochures/Multiple-Page Booklets |
Best of Class |
Broward Cultural Division Brochure |
Brochures/Multiple-Page Booklets |
Excellence |
Natural Forces Brochure |
Brochures/Multiple-Page Booklets |
Meritorious |
"Culturally Speaking" column- Go Riverwalk |
Writing, Feature Writing |
Superior |
2010 Arts Teacher of the Year -Invite |
Graphic Design |
Excellence |
Natural Forces Poster |
Graphic Design |
Excellence |
2009 |
Description/Title |
Category |
Award Level |
Artists’ Services Campaign (brochure series including the Artist Guide, Artists as an Entrepreneur and Micro Loan brochure) |
Graphic Design, Logos, Themes and Letterheads |
Superior |
"Culturally Speaking" column series- Go Riverwalk (monthly column) |
Writing, Feature Writing |
Meritorious |
2009 Arts Teacher of the Year Invite |
Special Projects |
Meritorious |
Jonathan Green Festival |
Special Projects |
Meritorious |
2008 |
Description/Title |
Category |
Award Level |
Cultural Quarterly |
External Publication |
Superior |
"Culturally Speaking" column - Go Riverwalk |
External Publication |
Excellence |
2008 Arts Teacher of the Year -Invite & Program |
Graphic Design |
Meritorious |
2007
|
Description/Title |
Category |
Award Level |
Cultural Quarterly |
External Publication |
Meritorious |
30 Years of Public Art and Design Video |
Video |
Excellence |
2006
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Description/Title |
Category |
Award Level |
Cultural Quarterly |
External Publication |
Superior |
Public Art and Design 30th Year Logo |
Graphic Design |
Superior |
2005 Arts Teacher of the Year Invitation |
Graphic Design |
Superior |
Richard Florida Event |
Special Projects |
Meritorious |
Learning World Cultures Through the Arts |
Special Projects |
Meritorious |
Community Design Toolbox Web Resource |
Websites |
Meritorious |
2005
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Description/Title |
Category |
Award Level |
Broward Cultural Division 2004 Annual Report |
External Publication |
Meritorious |
Public Art and Design Map and Guide |
Graphic Design |
Excellence |
Workshop Calendar |
Graphic Design |
Meritorious |
You’re a Click Away, rack brochure |
Special Projects |
Meritorious |
Cultural Quarterly |
External Publication |
Superior |
Library Bond Bookmarks |
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Superior |
2004 Arts Teacher of the Year Invitation |
Graphic Design |
Excellence |
Public Art and Design Web Tour |
Websites |
Superior |
Public Art - Year in Review |
Public Art Network
Broward
County Cultural Division's Public Art & Design has been selected to
be featured in the Year in Review by Americans for the Arts since 2001.
The Public Art Network’s Year in Review program is the only
national award that specifically recognizes public art projects. The
field is advanced by the commitment of artists to produce exceptional
work, public art programs and administrators who facilitate public
processes, and the two independent curators all of whom dedicate time
and thoughtful detail. Broward County has had 10 pieces of public art
chosen to be included in the "Year in Review" since 2001.
Americans For The Arts National Award
2004 Public Leadership in the Arts 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.

Commissioner Chip LaMarca received the
American for the Arts Award 2013 for Broward County
United States Urban Arts Federation |
Mary Becht, Director of the Broward County Cultural Division received the
2009 Ray Hanley Innovation Award by
the United States Urban Arts Federation (USUAF). A coalition of leaders
from the country’s 60 largest cities, USUAF established the award in
2007 to honor both Hanley and others who make outstanding individual
contributions to arts and culture in American cities.
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.
National Association of Counties Award (NACo) |
2011 -Two Achievement Awards
Award 1: CreativeBROWARD 2020: A Plan for Cultural & Economic Development in Broward County
A 10-year
Community Cultural Plan that examines diversity connected to Creative
Economy, Cultural Tourism and Public Art and Design, and provides a
comprehensive needs assessment, vision, draft legislation, policy
framework, recommendations, strategies, funding requirements, funding
sources, evaluation instrument, and benchmarks.
Award 2: NEA/ARRA Broward County Lifeline Grant Program/Protecting & Preserving non-profit arts jobs! The
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is an unprecedented
effort to jumpstart the nation's troubled economy with an economic
stimulus plan totaling $787 billion in spending and tax cuts. This
largest single cash infusion into the economy in American history was
signed into law by President Barack Obama on February 17, 2009.
1999 -First Annual Arts & Culture Award
This
award program is designed to encourage counties to submit successful
programs that have used arts and cultural activities to address not only
the quality of life, but also social problems in their communities.
Eligibility is extended not only to outstanding arts and historical
preservation programs, but also to innovative funding processes that
have been used to fund arts and cultural programs.
2005 -Theater of Regeneration Award
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.
Encore Award - Arts Administrator of the Year |
In 2009 Artserve named Broward Cultural Division’s grants administrator,
James Shermer, as the ‘
Arts Administrator of the Year,’ in the 20th annual ArtServe Encore Awards program.
The winners were chosen by an esteemed panel of judges including:
Edith Gooden-Thompson, Chair of the Broward Cultural Council; Chris
Tiedje of the Sun-Sentinel; Mark Budwig of the Greater Fort Lauderdale
Chamber of Commerce; Carey McKearnan of JES Publishing; and Pam Dearden
of Gold Coast Jazz Society.
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.