THE ARLIN G. MEYER PRIZE
ABOUT
The Arlin G. Meyer Prize awards $3000 biennially to full-time faculty from Member Institutions in recognition of a creative work. It is awarded on a rotating basis to an author of imaginative writing, performing artist, non-fiction author, visual artist, musical performer, or filmmaker whose work emerges from his or her practice of the vocation of the Christian author or artist, in accordance with the principles and ideals of the Lilly Network.
The Prize honors the late Arlin G. Meyer, Professor Emeritus of English at Valparaiso University, who served as program director of the Lilly Network from its inception in 1991 until his retirement in 2002.
UPDATE
The Arlin G. Meyer Prize is currently on hiatus.
2022 WINNER & FINALISTS
RECENT WINNERS & FINALISTS
2020 WINNER - MUSIC PERFORMANCE
Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 2
Stephen Heyde, Conductor
Mary Franks Thompson Professor of Orchestral Studies
The Baylor University Symphony Orchestra
Baylor University
2020 FINALISTS
O Sacred Instrument
Craig Cramer, Professor of Organ
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana
String Quartet No. 1: Vespers
Joel Scott Davis, Associate Professor of Music
Jeffrey Z. Flaniken, Associate Professor of Music
Samford University
Birmingham, Alabama
Prairie Songs: Remembering Ántonia
Brent Edstrom, Professor of Music
Scott David Miller, Director of Vocal Studies, Professor of Music
Whitworth University
Spokane, Washington
The Artisan
Robert Feller, Area Coordinator for Winds and Percussion
Biola University
La Mirada, California
Cambridge Songs Suite No. 2
Jim Taylor, Associate Professor of Music and Director of Fine Arts
LeTourneau University
Longview, Texas
2018 WINNER - FILM
A Slice of Pie: A Love Story,
by Blis DeVault
Associate Professor, Director, DIFT Program, School of Arts and Innovation
Director, Xavier TV and Film Center, Center for Innovation
Xavier University
2018 FINALISTS
Dieser Ort
Matt Farmer
Hope College
Voices of Justice
Sister Judith Royer
Loyola Marymount University
A Name That I Admire
Sam Smartt
Calvin College
PAST WINNERS & FINALISTS
2016 WINNER - NONFICTION
Visual Arts in the Worshiping Church,
by Lisa J. DeBoer
Professor of Art
Westmont College
Purchase
2016 FINALISTS
Fundamental Theology: A Protestant Perspective
Matthew L. Becker
Professor of Theology
Valparaiso University
God and Moral Obligation
C. Stephen Evans
University Professor
Baylor University
The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith
Timothy Larsen
Carolyn and Fred McManis Prof. of Christian Thought
Wheaton College
2014 WINNER - VISUAL ART
Under the Rose,
by Kenneth Steinbach
Professor of Art
Bethel University
View on the Artist’s Website
2014 FINALISTS
Gretchen Batcheller
Pepperdine University
Mary Griep
St. Olaf College
Katherine Sullivan
Hope College
Jo-Ann VanReeuwyk
Calvin College
2012 WINNER - IMAGINATIVE WRITING
Paper Anniversary,
by Bobby C. Rogers
Professor of Art
Union University
Purchase
2012 FINALISTS
2010 WINNER - MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
Innocents,
Directed by Dennis Friesen-Carper
Reddel Professor of Music
Valparaiso University
2010 FINALISTS
Tegel Passion, A Dramatic Cantata in Six Parts on the Martyrdom of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Directed by N. Lincoln Hanks
Associate Professor of Music
Pepperdine University
Reconciled: A Gospel Symphony
Directed by Gerry Jon Marsh
Director of the Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Seattle Pacific University
2008 WINNER - PERFORMING ARTS
Rogue,
Directed by Mitchell Thomas
Professor and Chair of Theatre Arts
Director of Film Studies Minor
Westmont College
2008 FINALISTS
Seven Passages
Written and Directed by Stephanie Sandberg
Associate Professor of Theater
Calvin College
Life is a Dream
Directed by Fr. George Drance
Artist in Residence
Fordham University
2007 WINNER - NONFICTION
The Way That Leads There: Augustinian Reflections on the Christian Life
by Gilbert Meilaender
Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Professor of Christian Ethics,
Valparaiso University
2007 FINALISTS
Practicing Mortality
by Christopher Dusting
College of the Holy Cross
The Gift of Story: Narrating Hope in a Postmodern World,
by Emily Griesinger and Mark Eaton
Azusa Pacific University
Dialogue and Drama: Elements of Greek Tragedy in the Fourth Gospel
by Jo-Ann Brant
Goshen College
“Women, Religion, and Insanity in Mary Lamb’s ‘The Young Mahometan’” European Romantic Review, Vol. 16, No. 4,
by Julie Straight
Northwest Nazarene University
Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England
by Timothy Larson
Wheaton College
2006 WINNER - VISUAL ARTS
Scattered Man
Installation by Cort Savage
Associate Professor of Art
Davidson College
2006 FINALISTS
Wahrheitstisch
Site-Specific Installation by Roger Feldman
Professor of Art
Seattle Pacific University
Cakewalk--After All is Forgiven
Painting by Joseph Piasentin
Professor of Art
Pepperdine University
Householder Sonata
Painting by Joel Sheesley
Professor of Art
Wheaton College
Contemplations on the Spiritual
Site-Specific Installation by Jo Yarrington
Professor of Art
Fairfield University
2005 WINNER - IMAGINATIVE WRITING
Against Consolation
by Robert Cording
Professor of English and Poet in Residence
College of the Holy Cross
2005 FINALISTS
Lives of the Sleepers
by Ned Balbo
Thirty Days on Retreat with the Exercises of St. Ignatius
by Paul Mariani
The Fork Without Hunger
by Laurie Lamon
Empty Room with Light
by Ann Hostetler
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
by Gary D. Schmidt
Kin: The Trial of Carrie Buck
A two act drama by Jeff Barker
Northwestern College