Award of Distinction
Award of Distinction
This award recognizes an organization, institution, corporation, or individual who has made significant contributions to the field of craft with a minimum of 25 years of service.
Introducing Our 2024 Award of Distinction Recipients
JoAnn Edwards
Co-Founder & Director Emeritus, Museum of Craft & Design
San Francisco, CA | View Bio.
Carol Sauvion
Executive Director, Craft in America and Director, Freehand Gallery | Beverly Hills, CA | View Bio.
All ACC Award of Distinction Recipients
Individuals
2024 JoAnn Edwards
2024 Carol Sauvion
2022 Stoney Lamar
2012 Sidney D. Rosoff
2009 Michael W. Monroe
2008 Helen Williams Drutt English
2002 Bernard Kester
2002 John Hartom
2002 Lisa Blackburn
1998 Edward Larrabee Barnes
1996 Laurie Hall
1994 James Plaut
1992 Samuel Johnson
1992 Karen Johnson Boyd
1988 Rose Slivka
1988 John Hauberg
1985 Alexander and Susan Girard
Corporations
1993 Philip Morris Companies Inc.
Organizations
2018 Contemporary Craft (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
2016 CERF+ (Montpelier, VT)
2014 The Clay Studio (Philadelphia, PA)
2002 The Society of North American Goldsmiths (Missoula, MT)
2002 The Handweavers Guild of America (Duluth, GA)
2001 Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts (Helena, MT)
1999 Greenwich House Pottery Center for Ceramics (New York, NY)
1998 Embroiderers' Guild of America, Inc. (Louisville, KY)
1998 Artist-Blacksmith's Association of North America, Inc. (Washington, MO)
1997 The Society of Arts and Crafts (Boston, MA)
1997 The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC)
1997 John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, WI)
1997 Craft Alliance (St. Louis, MO)
1995 USIA Arts America (Washington DC)
1995 Glass Art Society (Seattle, WA)
1993 Pewabic Society Inc. (Detroit, MI)
1993 League of New Hampshire Craftsmen Foundation (Concord, NH)
1992 Southern Highland Craft Guild (Asheville, NC)
1992 National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (Bandon, OR)
1987 Contemporary Crafts Gallery (now Contemporary Crafts Museum & Gallery) (Portland, OR)
Museums
2020 Fuller Craft Museum (Brockton, MA)
2000 The Textile Museum (Washington, DC)
1996 Wharton Esherick Museum (Paoli, PA)
1995 Craft & Folk Art Museum (Los Angeles, CA)
1987 Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, NY)
1986 Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY)
Schools
2003 The University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA)
2003 Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI)
2000 John C. Campbell Folk School (Brasstown, NC)
1997 Oregon College of Art & Craft (Portland, OR)
1997 California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts) (San Francisco, CA)
1996 Pottery Northwest (Seattle, WA)
1996 Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Snowmass Village, CO)
1995 Pilchuck Glass School (Seattle, WA)
1995 Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (Gatlinburg, TN)
1994 School for American Crafts (Rochester, NY)
1988 New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University (Alfred, NY)
1987 Penland School of Crafts (Penland, NC)
1987 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (Deer Isle, ME)
1985 Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI)
Publications
1993 Ceramics Monthly (Columbus, OH)
1990 M. C. Richards (Uniondale, PA)
1988 Boston Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA)
1988 The Crafts Report (Wilmington, DE)
1986 Gerry Williams (Dumbarton, NH)
1985 Larry Winn, Winn Publishing (Seattle, WA)
1983 Kodansha International (New York, NY)
ACC Awards programming is possible thanks to generous support from the Windgate Charitable Foundation.
