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. The significance cannot be overstated, and the value of material related to the individuals has proportional importance to the preservation and scholarship of American craft. Awardees are nominated by the College of Fellows and selected by the ACC Awards Committee.
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Anne Wilson
Anne Wilson is a Chicago-based visual artist who creates sculpture, material drawings, and performances that explore themes of time, loss, and private and social rituals. Her artwork resides in permanent collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Des Moines Art Center; Detroit Institute of Arts; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Foundation Toms Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland; and the 21st Century Museum of ...
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Nick Cave
Nick Cave (b. 1959, Fulton, MO; lives and works in Chicago, IL) is an artist, educator and foremost a messenger, working between the visual and performing arts through a wide range of mediums including sculpture, installation, video, sound and performance. Cave is well known for his Soundsuits, sculptural forms based on the scale of his body, initially created in direct response to the police beating of Rodney King in 1991. Soundsuits camouflage the body, masking and creating a second skin that ...
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Wendy Maruyama
Wendy Maruyama is an artist and educator from San Diego, California and has been making furniture since 1972. Trained initially as a furniture maker/traditional woodworker, Maruyama's work is known for its deviation from the norm in the field of studio furniture. Her various bodies of work were often inspired by extended residencies and visits to various countries such as France, England, Japan, Korea and China. Maruyama had been creating works inspired by the memory of her childhood growing up...
