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2008 - 2017 Artists of the Year |
- 2017 - Kelvin Burzon (OH) for "Noli Me Tangere"
- 2016 - *Philip Campbell (IN) for "Rising From the Fire"
- 2015 - Donald Jackson (UK) for "The Saint John's Bible"
- 2014 - Anila Quayyum Agha (IN) for "Intersections"
- 2013 - Makoto Fujimura (NJ) for "Golden Sea"
- 2012 - Siona Benjamin (NJ) for "Find Home"
- 2011 - Banksy (UK) for "Stained Window"
- 2010 - Thomas Blackshear (KS) for "Saint Teresa"
- 2009 - Helen Zughaib (DC) for "Midnight Prayers"
- 2008 - Kehinde Wiley (NY) for "The Dead Christ in a Tomb"
*2016 marked year when first artist received the purchase prize
- 2017 - Pope Francis, Roman Catholic Church, Vatican City
- 2016 - Dr. Peter Manseau, Smithsonian, NMAH, Wash., DC
- 2015 - Pope Francis, Roman Catholic Church, Vatican City
- 2014 - Rev. Clarence G. Newsome, PhD, Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH
- 2013 - Rabbi Yitzchok Moully, Youth Rabbi, Chabad Jewish Center, NJ
- 2012 - Chancellor Eisen, Jewish Theological Seminary, NYC
- 2011 - Pastor Jonathon Wiggins, Resurrection Fellowship, Loveland, CO
- 2010 - Father Terrence Dempsey, St. Louis University, Saint Louis, MO
- 2009 - Father Luke, Brotherhood of Friars, NYC
- 2017 - Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "Abdulnasser Gharem: Pause"
- 2016 - Seattle Art Museum: "Graphic Masters"
- 2015 - The Jewish Museum: "Masterpieces & Curiosities"
- 2014 - Museum of Biblical Art: "Back to Eden"
- 2013 - The Jewish Museum: “Chagall: Love, War and Exile”
- 2012 - Brigham Young Museum of Art: "Beauty & Belief"
- 2011 - Metropolitan Museum of Art: "Art of the Arab Lands"
- 2010 - Museum of Contemporary Religious Art: "Good Friday"
- 2009 - Indianapolis Museum of Art: "Sacred Spain"
- Indiana Student Prizes: 2014 - "Sticks & Stones" (Grade 9) by Binuri Lasanya Hapuarachchy; 2013 - Bailee Brantley (Grade 11), "Risk"; 2012 - Samreen Uzzaman (Grade 12), "Life of a Shoe"; and 2011 - Rachael Walker (Grade 12), "Freedom"
- Indiana Poets: (2013) Bonnie Maurer, Norbert Krapf, and Tasha Jones
- More Honors: 10,000 Buddhist Relics to California Temple; Ten Thousand Ripples in Chicago; Spanish Harlem's "Three Kings Parade"; and Manjari Sharma's Goddess of Good Over Evil