DOLPHIN PROGRAM

The Dolphin Fellowship

The Dolphin Fellowship has been established to encourage AWS Signature members to create more award-winning paintings and for the advancement of the art of watercolor.

Unlike some fellowships where candidates have to be sponsored by other Fellows to achieve membership, membership in the Dolphin Fellowship is obtained by merit alone in accordance with a point system. The points required to be a Fellow are five and must be won by AWS members at one or more of our Annual International Exhibitions. All points must be won while the member is a Signature member. Awards won before the member became a Signature member do not count towards the Dolphin Fellowship.

A miniature pin of the Dolphin Medal will be available to any Signature member of the AWS who has won five or more points in our exhibition as described above. They will be entitled to use the AWS, D. F. initials after their names.

As much as we would like to, we cannot do all the research to determine who is eligible for one of the Dolphin Pins. Members must furnish the dates of the awards and send them to the office via the methods below. This information must be provided by January 15th of each year if the recipient is to receive a pin at that year’s Awards Dinner. Contact:

info@americanwatercolorsociety.org
(Subject: Dolphin Fellow)

or: American Watercolor Society
47 Fifth Ave
New York, NY 10003

The Dolphin Medal

The Dolphin Medal (distinct from the Dolphin Fellowship) will be awarded to a person, persons or even to organizations making outstanding contributions to art — especially to watercolor and AWS. This is not an award for painting. The recipient of the Medal shall become an honorary Member of the Society.

The Dolphin Medal is awarded by vote of the AWS Board.

Design (of both Pin and Medal)
created and sculpted
by Mario Cooper

Dolphin Medalists

Antonio Masi 2025
Nancy Bercow 2017
Joe Miller 2006
Dale Meyers 2000
Serge Hollerbach 1998
Andrew Wyeth 1994
Chen Chi 1992
Alfredo Guati Rojo 1990
Dong Kingman 1987
Millard Sheets 1986
Ogden Pleissner 1984
Mario Cooper 1983
Joseph Veach Noble 1982
Robert Beverly Hale 1981