The Stevan Dohanos award is considered the Best in Show of the annual Members Open. A selected jury, including Illustrator Members, are the judges for the prestigious Stevan Dohanos Award.
Stevan Dohanos (1907-1994) Federal office muralist and American realist painter, he illustrated covers for The Saturday Evening Post among other magazines. He created over 40 United States postal stamps as well as many Easter Seal stamps and was the designer for the Citizen Stamp Advisory Committee. President of the Society from 1961 until 1963, Mr.Dohanos was elected to the Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1971.
Leigh Grant
Ted Lewin
James Bennett
Lisa Falkenstern
1996: Rafal Olbinski
Robert E. McGinnis
Al Lorenz
Jonathan Bouw
Mary Jane Begin
Jerry Pinkney
2000: Gregory Manchess
Kam Mak
Joe Ciardiello
Mark Stutzman
2008: Chad Wallace
2009: Stephen Gardner
Guy Billout
2011: Jason Raish
2012: Leo Espinosa
Stephen Kroninger
2015: Bil Donovan
2016: Anna and Elena Balbusso
2017: Peter Arkle
2018: Youlian Tabakov
2019: Cathie Bleck
2021: Daniel Pelavin
2022: Victor Juhasz
2023: Lisa Cyr
2024: Guy Billout
Honorable Mentions:
2024 – Joan Chiverton, Sally Wren Comport
2022 – Junyu Lin, John Cuneo
2019 – Anthony Accardo
2018 – Heidi Younger, Veronica Tolentino
2016 – Youlian Tabakov
2015 – Drew Friedman, John S. Dykes, John Cuneo
Themes Over the Years:
2024 – Framework: The Art of the Building (35th annual)
2023 – Works in Progress
2022 – Sketchbooks
2021 – Flourish
2020 – Inside & Outside Voices
2019 – Unleashed
2018 – Postcards for a Greener Earth
2017 – Food Fight
2016 – Drawn to the Music
2015 – Artists Illustrating Artists