Marcia Hutchinson, Managing Director of Primary Colours, awarded an MBE for services to cultural diversity.
The achievements of artists and art organisations from Yorkshire's thriving arts sector have been recognised with a raft of recent awards.
Applauding them all, Cluny Macpherson, Regional Director, said: 'Congratulations to all the winners, whose success is not just measured by "trophies on the mantelpiece" but also by the ever increasing numbers of people from all across the Yorkshire region who are taking part in and enjoying the arts. Innovative work, that involves audiences in new ways, carried out against a backdrop of sustained investment is a winning formula and the Arts Council is delighted to be supporting such an amazing range of award winning artists and organisations in the region.'
Marcia Hutchinson, Managing Director of Kirklees-based regularly funded organisation Primary Colours, has been awarded an MBE for services to cultural diversity in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
While CBEs went to West Yorkshire-based poet Simon Armitage and Peter Murray, Executive Director of another regularly funded organisation, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
There was more success for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) at the Insider Business Tourism Awards 2010, when it was declared Unique Venue of the Year. The dedicated conferencing and hospitality team at YSP also received the Team of the Year award.
A number of other Arts Council England regularly funded organisations have also been celebrating.
Harrogate Theatre won two awards at the Harrogate Hospitality and Tourism Awards 2010, including Unsung Hero of the Year which went to Derick England, their front of house merchandise seller.
The 2009 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival won a coveted Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award in the Concert Series and Festivals category.
And Goole's new arts and civic centre, Junction, enjoyed a triple success, topping the Environment and Culture category in the Market Town Awards and being given a regional award in the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Awards, which means it is now also in the running for RIBA's national Stirling Award. Junction has also been shortlisted for the Community Benefit category in the National Grand Final of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Awards after coming top in this category in the Yorkshire region.
A collection of poetry from Todmorden's Arc Publications was shortlisted for the most valuable poetry prize in the world. Cold Spring in Winter by Valerie Rouzeau was one of three books on the International Shortlist for the Griffin Poetry Prize 2010.
The renowned National Centre for Early Music in York also announced the winners of its 2010 Young Composers Awards. Owain Park (16) from Bristol and Alexander Campkin (25) from London took the honours.
At Hull Truck Theatre the marketing team scooped the Theatrical Management Association (TMA) Award for Achievement in Marketing for its innovative campaign aimed at attracting new audiences to the theatre's production of Macbeth.
And acclaimed playwright and theatre director Alan Ayckbourn received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre at the annual awards ceremony which celebrates the best work appearing on Broadway.
Junction and the Hull Truck Theatre, which opened last year with support from Lottery investment through the Arts Council, have been shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Better Public Building Award 2010. The winner will be announced in October.
Judges lauded Hull Truck's new theatre as 'a beautifully crafted city landmark' and also praised Junction in Goole, saying 'this little gem combines an arts centre and local authority offices in an exceptionally compact building.'
Congratulations also go to Chris Wade, founder of the Beverley Folk Festival. She won the Real Yorkshire Award for lifelong contribution to and achievements in tourism at the inaugural Real Yorkshire Tourism Awards, organised by Visit Hull and East Yorkshire.
Well done Yorkshire arts!
