• Best of Show $2,000.00
• 1st Place Award $1,000.00
• 2nd Place Award $750.00
• 3rd Place Award $500.00
• Clyde Heron Award (the most accurately rendered artwork of a historical subject) $250.00
• Plainsman Award (People’s Choice) – $250.00
• Golden Spur Award (Artists’ Choice) – $250.00
• Arrowhead Award (Facility’s Board Member’s Choice) – $250.00
• Best Plains Life –$200.00
• Mystery Award (APA Exe. Committee’s Choice) –$200.00
• The previous two awards are to encourage diversity of subject matter in artwork

****All of the awards above and all ribbons are given by the American Plains Artists****

• Publisher’s Award of Excellence – One-Half Page Ad sponsored by Art of the West $1,780.00 value
• Publisher’s Award of Excellence – Half-Page Ad sponsored by Western Art & Architecture $3,050.00
• Publisher’s Award of Excellence – Artist’s Focus Award sponsored by Western Art Collector $3,400.00 value
• Exhibition Award – Inclusion in the 2022 CFD Western Art Show, sponsored by the Old West Museum, Cheyenne, WY
• Artist’s Retreat Award – given by Our Heritage Guest Ranch, Jean Norman, Owner, Crawford, NE $400.00 value
• Canvas Panels Award – Two Awards — given by SourceTek, Owner JoAnne Pierce, Scottsdale, AZ
• The Wyoming Award – a one-year subscription to Wyoming Lifestyles and to Wyoming Wildlife given by the American Plains Artists, and a copy of The Man Who Hated Hickock by Wyoming Author CM Wendelboe given by CM Wendelboe.
• 10 Awards of Excellence
• Other Awards Possible