Fuller Craft Museum Announces Lifetime Achievement Award

From the Fuller Craft Museum: Co-Producers Tony Fusco & Robert Four are happy to announce that the 10th Anniversary AD20/21 Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Jonathan Leo Fairbanks at the Gala Preview of the show on Thursday evening,April 6th. AD20/21, which includes the Boston Print Fair, is the only art and design fair of its kind in New England, featuring close to 50 modern to contemporary exhibitors.

The Gala Preview celebrates Boston Design Week, a 12-day design festival March 29-April 9 with 80+ events citywide. www.BostonDesignWeek.com. All proceeds from the 6:30 Gala will benefit Design Museum Boston. The 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award winner will be presented at 6:00pm at the Gala. Past Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients include: Vladimir Kagan, Dakota Jackson, Massimo and Leila Vignelli, Vicente Wolf, John P. Axelrod, Susan Park, Robert Campbell, and Virginia Bohlin. Gala Preview tickets are $250 (VIP Admission at 5:30pm), $100 (Gala at 6:30pm). More information atwww.AD2021.com/gala

Art, design, and true creative vision are the cornerstones of Jonathan Leo Fairbanks’s multifaceted career as a curator, educator, museum administrator, artist, historian, and writer. Fairbanks (b. 1933) founded the department of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and served as its Curator for 30 years, 1970-1999. He received his training at the University of Utah (BFA, 1953), University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (MFA, 1957), Winterthur Museum and the University of Delaware (MA, 1961). Employed at Winterthur over the next decade, he became the Associate Curator for Conservation responsible for building the conservation/research wing of that Museum.

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