The mission of the award is to teach critical thinking to students in Monroe County and further their art careers.
The mission of the award is to teach critical thinking to students in Monroe County and further their art careers.
Jeff MacNelly was the Twentieth Century’s most critically acclaimed political cartoonist with three Pulitzers, and two Ruebens bestowed by his fellow cartoonist. Jeff’s prodigious talent as an artist, cartoonist, sailor and collaborator graced this uncommon island for the ten years that he and his wife Susie lived here winters.
Jeff worked with children when he came to Key West for the winter. It is with the thought that his legacy can provide inspiration for the coming generations as it has for his colleagues that this scholarship is designed.
Jeff MacNelly Award Committee
Dave Barry has been writing for the Miami Herald since 1983 and won a Pulitzer Prize for journalistic commentary in 1988. He has written a number of short but harmful books, including “Babis and Other Hazards of Sex” and “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States.” He writes about life and all its funny complexities.
Mike Peters has been recognized as one of our nations most prominent cartoon artists for his outstanding work as both a political and comic strip cartoonist. He was awarded his Pulitzer in1981. His strip “Mother Goose & Grimm” has won awards since its inception in 1984. His original editorial cartoons may be seen at The Gallery on Greene in Key West.
David Hume Kennerly was the White House photographer for President Gerald R. Ford. His many achievements include the Pulitzer Prize for his Vietnam photography, first prize in the World Press Photo Contest for his coverage of Cambodia, and Overseas Press Club’s Olivier Rebbot Award for his inside story of the Reagan/Gorbachev Summit in Geneva.
Michael Edward Luckovich is an editorial cartoonist who has worked for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 1989. He is the 2005 winner of the Reuben, the National Cartoonists Society’s top award for cartoonist of the year, and is the recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes.
Lou Harris one of our most distinguished Key West residents of the Harris Poll fame, supplied the criteria. Being Florida we wanted to get it right and Mr. Harris is surely the most noted expert in the world to avoid another Florida voting debacle .
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