"Lifetime achievement which has enhanced the arts and/or reflected favorably upon the arts within Waukesha County as well as led to significant state, regional, or national recognition, or if limited to local contributions, has been so distinguished to have influenced the course or future of arts within Waukesha County significantly. Posthumous awards may be made."

HALL OF FAME:
A handsome wooden Arts Alliance Hall of Fame plaque with individually engraved metal nameplates hangs in the Waukesha County Courthouse honoring these past recipients. Names inscribed on the plaque are:

1987 Les Paul

1988 David Hundhausen

1988 May Nickell Rankin

1988 Jay Whitney

1989 Milton Weber

1989 Eleanor Chapman