Bainbridge Performing Arts announced Dove Cameron as the winner of the 15th annual Amy Award for Emerging Artists this week.

Star of the Disney Channel show “Liv and Maddie,” and the hit film “Descendants,” Cameron got her start at BPA at the age of 8. Armed with her headshot, community theatre experience and her dreams, she moved from Bainbridge Island to Los Angeles when she was just 14. Today she has her own television show, four film credits and numerous other TV and music credits as well.

In addition to her recordings with Disney, Cameron writes and performs in the music duo “The Girl and the Dreamcatcher” with her fiancé Ryan McCartan.

Cameron is the second of island writer Bonnie Wallace’s daughters to receive the Amy Award, which is given each year to a Bainbridge Island artist under the age of 35, whose work demonstrates a strong sense of quality, creativity, exploration, and dedication.

The annual cash award is funded by an endowment established by David and Caren Anderson in honor of their late daughter and administered by Arts and Humanities Bainbridge.

“Amy’s involvement in the arts on Bainbridge was our inspiration for the award,” reflected Caren Anderson. Amy pursued a wide variety of artistic endeavors — ranging from theatre to dance, writing, and the visual arts, and the Amy Award was conceived as a meaningful way to memorialize her passions. Further, the Andersons envisioned the award as a means of nourishing emerging artists at the nexus of pursuit and discovery.

Now encompassing two sets of siblings, the roster of award winners includes Korum Bischoff (2001), Solia Hermes (2002), Jessica Tuffley (2003), Rain Ross (2004), Tracy Lang (2005), Vincent Palazzolo-Packard (2006), Gregory Glynn (2007), Claire Hosterman (2008), Jonathan Hallet (2009), Wesley Corbett (2010), Annie Huntley (2011), Jherek Bischoff (2012), Raquel Stanek (2013) and Liz Ellis (2014).