Museum to Honor Liz Claiborne Chairman Paul Charron, Artist Ruth Duckworth, Architect-Designer Michael Graves at 10th Annual Visionaries! Gala Benefit
Event Set for October 28, 2003, at the Hilton New York
NEW YORK – The Museum of Arts & Design (formerly American Craft Museum) will confer its 10th annual Visionaries! Awards, which celebrate individuals that have advanced the fields of craft, decorative arts and design.
This year, the event and silent auction will be held on Tuesday, October 28, at the Hilton New York, 1335 Avenue of the Americas at 53rd Street, Manhattan. Cocktails and auction begin at 7 p.m.; dinner and dancing at 8 p.m. Honorary Chair for the event is First Lady Libby Pataki.
Visionaries! is the Museum’s most important annual benefit and helps underwrite educational and public programs, as well as future exhibitions. This year Visionaries! are corporate honoree Paul R. Charron, a fashion industry executive, and architect-designer Michael Graves and sculptor Ruth Duckworth, who will receive lifetime achievement awards.
Tickets: Underwriter table at $25,000; Benefactor table at $15,000; Supporter table at $10,000; Patron table at $7,500; Individual Sponsor ticket at $1,000. For information, call Lynn Hendricks, Special Events, at 212-956-3535, ext. 112.
Honorees:
Paul R. Charron, Chairman and CEO of Liz Claiborne, Inc, has leveraged major support, not only the Museum’s mission and programs, but for those of many other cultural institutions. His corporate support of the arts has distinguished him as a leader in this community.
Michael Graves, an internationally known contemporary architect and designer, and a professor at Princeton University for almost forty years, has made outstanding contributions to his fields through his innovative and whimsical approach to product design.
Ruth Duckworth, one of America’s leading ceramic artists, has been inspiring national and international audiences for over 50 years with small-scale and major public commissions in clay and bronze.
Past honorees:
Among the Museum’s past Visionaries! are designers Geoffrey Beene and Todd Oldham; artists Dale Chihuly, Wendell Castle, Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová, Harvey Littleton, Sam Maloof, William Morris, Lenore Tawney and Bertil Vallien; gallery owners Linda Boone and Ferdinand Hampson, Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio, Helen Drutt English and Dorothy Weiss; dancer-choreographer Bill T. Jones; Marvin Hopkins of Hunter Douglas Window Fashions;
Jamie Houghton of Corning, Incorporated; Guy LaLiberté of Cirque de Soleil; philanthropist and collector Henry Luce III; arts educators Priscilla and Francis Merritt; arts education advocate Libby Pataki; Martha Stewart; costume designer and Broadway and film director Julie Taymor; decorative-arts exposition producer Mark Lyman; graphic designers Ken Carbone and Leslie Smolan; the late, renowned ceramic artist Peter Voulkos and legendary songwriter Cy Coleman.