2010s
- (2019) Roxy Toporowych, filmmaker
- (2018) Alysha Baier, potter
- (2017) Christa Donner, artist, organizer and activist
- (2016) Erin Barnett, art scholar
- (2015) Johanna Mueller, printmaker
- (2014) Travis Berning, ceramic artist
- (2013) Mariangeles Soto-Diaz, painter
- (2012) John Hitchcock, printmaker
- (2010) Heinrich Toh, artist
- (2010) Paul Rudy, composer
2000s
- (2009) Alice Watterson, artist-teacher
- (2008) Allen Vizzutti, trumpeter
- (2007) Peter Massing, artist-teacher
- (2006) Greg Luginbuhl, artist-teacher
- (2005) Arianna String Quartet
- (2005) Nancy Palmeri, printmaker
- (2004) Lloyd Menard, printmaker
- (2004) Conrad Snider, clay artist
- (2003) Chris Wolff, potter
- (2002) Buzz Alexander, prison arts
- (2002) Elizabeth Dove, printmaker
- (2002) Count Basie Orchestra (jazz big band)
- (2001) Henry Holden, media commentator, comedian, actor
- (2001) Lynwood Kreneck, artist
- (2000) Gregory H. Miller and Dick Lehman, artists
1990s
- (1999) James H. Chapmyn and Living the Dream Theater, actors
- (1999) John A. Michael, artist-teacher
- (1999) Frank Nemhauser, conductor
- (1998) William Christenberry, visual artist
- (1997) Augusta Read Thomas, composer
- (1996) Paul Soldner and Maya Nishi, artists
- (1995) Patrick Dougherty, artist
- (1995) Alice Parker, composer
- (1994) Ted Swartz and Lee Eshleman, actors
- (1993) Symposium: The Arts, Culture and Community
- (1992) Nicholas Hill, artist
- (1991) Symposium: The Arts and Prophetic Imagination
- (1991) Erma Martin Yost, artist
- (1990) Malcolm Miller, Chartres Cathedral scholar
- (1990) Roberto Caamaño, composer
1980s
- (1989) Steven Fiol, opera director
- (1988) Elvera Voth, choral director
- (1988) Milford E. Greer Painting Exhibit
- (1988) Bethel College alumni present Cosi Fan Tutte
- (1987) Centennial Alumni Art Exhibit
- (1987) David Dunlap, artist-teacher
- (1986) Willem Volkersz, artist-teacher
- (1985) Wallace Shearon, bass-baritone
- (1985) Jack Eddleman, opera director
- (1985) Peter Hurford, organist
- (1985) Reinhold Marxhausen, artist-teacher
- (1984) Laura Chapman, specialist in art education
- (1983) William Meyers, writer/director
- (1983) Donald Martin Jenni, composer/theorist
- (1983) Kenneth Hiebert, graphic designer/photographer
- (1982) Keith Dearborn, music educator
- (1981) Leslie Irene Coger, oral interpreter
- (1981) Alan Gussow, painter
- (1980) Arthur Tollefson, pianist
1970s
- (1979) Edward Sovik, Jr., architect