CCMA’s Artist of the Year award was initiated in 2005 to honor Milford Zornes for his life-long contribution to the art world and his support of Chaffey Community Museum of Art. Subsequent honorees include John E. Swenson (2006), Martha Menke Underwood (2008), Andreé Mendenhall Mahoney and Bob Smith (2009), Betty Davenport Ford (2010), Sam Maloof (2011), Harrison MacIntosh (2012), Sylvia Mergerdichian (2013), JoAnn Formia (2014), Jan Wright (2015), Dee Marcellus Cole (2016), Tom Fong (2017), Steve Thomas (2018), Gina Lawson Egan (2019) and Father Bill Moore, SS.CC. (2020).