Gold Medal for Consummate Craftsmanship

An award for a lifetime of achievements.

Meet the awardees.

As part of the ACC Biennial Awards, one or more Fellows are recognized as Gold Medalists. Representing an award for a lifetime of achievement, the Gold Medal is the highest award given by ACC. Gold Medal awardees represent the extraordinary among a field of elite craftspeople.  Awardees are nominated by the College of Fellows and selected by the ACC Awards Committee.

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  • Consuelo Jimenez Underwood

    Born in 1949 in Sacramento, California, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood is a fiber artist known for her large wall installations and woven works. As a child, Jimenez Underwood worked alongside her parents as a migrant farm laborer. Her father, who was undocumented for many years, was deported several times throughout her childhood. Jimenez Underwood recalls traveling to Mexico with her mother to bring him home, sometimes only to see him apprehended again at the border. Themes of layered identity, bor...

  • Sonya Clark

    Born in Washington, DC to Caribbean parents, Sonya Clark is the Winifred Arms Professor of Arts at Amherst College in Massachusetts.. Previously, she held the title of Commonwealth Professor and was a Distinguished Research Fellow in the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University where she served as a chair of the Craft and Material Studies department for twelve years. Prior to moving to Virginia she was a Baldwin Basom Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she work...

These awards were made possible with support from the
Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation.