The Bishop Award, given to persons or organizations that have enriched Eugene's cultural life, will be awarded to Judy Wenger. Wenger has taught theatre at Roosevelt Middle School since 1983, staging Shakespearean comedies, tragedies, and over 30 musicals. In 2004, she won the Most Inspirational Teacher Award from the U.S. Presidential Scholar's Program. The Stone Soup comic-strip character Ms. Wingit is patterned after her.

The Fentress Award recognizes arts groups for enriching Eugene's cultural future. The 2007 award goes to KWAX-FM, with special recognition for the station's music director Caitriona Bolster. Bolster has been with the station since 1986. Listener-funded KWAX broadcasts its classical music format to more than 40,000 listeners each week.

Eugene mayor Kitty Piercy will present the awards. The featured speaker will be Frances Bronet, an educator, practicing designer, and advocate for cross-disciplinary education who became the Dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts in 2005.

A quartet of musicians from the University of Oregon will provide music during lunch.

This program was coordinated by Laurel Fisher and Joan Kerns.