• 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
• Glen Edwards Memorial Award –$100
• Best Plains People–$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-Third Page Ad sponsored by Art of the West $1,185.00 value
• Publisher’s Award of Excellence –Half-Page Ad sponsored by Western Art & Architecture $2,450.00
• Publisher’s Award of Excellence –Artist’s Focus Award sponsored by Western Art Collector $3,400.00 value
• Exhibition Awards – Four Awards–sponsored byFort Concho NHL, San Angelo, TX
• Artist’s Retreat Award –given by Our Heritage Guest Ranch, Jean Norman, Owner, Crawford, NE $400.00 value
• Artist’s Retreat Award–given by The HummerHouse, Dan & Cathy Brown, Owners, Christoval, TX $300.00 value
• Canvas Panels Award –Two Awards –given by SourceTek, Owner JoAnne Pierce,Scottsdale, AZ
• The Texas Award –a one-year subscription to Texas Highways, Texas Parks and Wildlife given by the American Plains  Artists and a copy of Texas Forts Trail by Texas Authors Derrick Birdsall and Kristine Davis given by the Fort Concho Foundation
• Award of Excellence –a one-year subscription to Western Art & Architecture given by Western Art & Architecture Other Awards Possible