Reta Cowley
Lifetime Award for Excellence in the Arts, 1990
Saskatchewan Order of Merit, 1990

Reta Cowley is celebrated for her numerous achievements and integrity as an artist and for her patience and sincerity as an exemplary and caring teacher. Reta Cowley studied art at the University of Saskatchewan Summer Art School and at the Emma Lake Artist Workshop while she was teaching school herself. She also studied at the Banff School of Fine Arts for three years. Reta Cowley has had more than two dozen solo exhibitions of her work, while art collections across the country own her paintings. She also taught art for numerous summers at the University of Saskatchewan arts schools.

Lieutenant Governor's Arts Award Recipients

Lifetime Achievement - Joe Fafard (2007)
30 Below - Thomas Yu (2007)
Leadership - Saskatchewan Music Educators Association (2007)
Innovation in the Arts - Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival (2007)
Lifetime Achievement - Bill Epp (2005)
30 Below - Holly Luhning (2005)
Leadership - Richard Spafford (2005)
Innovation in the Arts - Edward Poitras (2005)
Lifetime Achievement - John Arcand (2004)
30 Below - Sheri Benning (2004)
Leadership - Gary Hyland (2004)
Innovation in the Arts - Michael Hosaluk (2004)

Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients

Marjorie Dunlop (1999)
Caroline Heath (1999)
Ann Newdigate (1999)
Nik Semenoff (1999)
Elizabeth Brewster (1995)
Mary Ellen Burgess (1995)
McGregor Hone (1995)
Allen Sapp (1995)
Florence B. James (1993)
Wynona Croft Mulcaster (1993)
Ruth Pawson (1993)
James Sinclair Ross (1993)
Murray Adaskin (1991)
Mina Forsyth (1991)
Howard Leyton-Brown (1991)
Dwaine Nelson (1991)
Reta Cowley (1990)
John V. Hicks (1990)
Kenneth Kramer (1990)
Jean Oser (1990)
Anne Szumigalski (1990)
Lea Collins (1989)
Ernest Lindner (1989)
W.O. Mitchell (1989)
William A. Riddell (1989)
David Smith (1989)

Saskatchewan Order Of Merit Recipients

Don Kerr (2007)
Calvin D. Abrahamson (2006)
David L. Kaplan (2006)
William A. Waiser (2006)
Maria Campbell (2005)
Lusia Pavlychenko (2005)
Byrna Barclay (2004)
Lorne Carrier (2004)
Jack Sures (2003)
Guy Vanderhaeghe (2003)
Margaret Cugnet (2003)
Joe Fafard (2002)
Kenneth Mitchell (2001)
Jacqui Shumiatcher (2001)
Robert N. Hinitt (2000)
Carol Gay Bell (1997)
Victor Cicansky (1997)
H. Frances Morrison (1999)
Howard Leyton-Brown (1996)
Morris Shumiatcher (1996)
William Perehudoff (1994)
William H. Riddell (1994)
Ruth Pawson (1993)
Emmie Oddie (1991)
Reta Cowley (1990)
Anne Szumigalski (1989)
Marguerite Gallaway (1988)
Dorothy Knowles (1987)
Lyell A. Gustin (1986)
Hilda Allen (1985)
Allen Sapp (1985)