FAWC's Fifth Distinguished Service in the Arts Awards Benefit will be held at the Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge on Monday, November 5, 2007.

The Gilbert Franklin Medal will be presented to Norman Mailer, Michael Mazur and Ted Landsmark at a festive cocktail reception and gala dinner, including a silent auction with work donated by the honorees and others. The medal is presented to artists, writers, patrons, and individuals of distinction who have provided exceptional guidance and inspiration to emerging writers and visual artists. It is an emblem of our gratitude to those who support the needs of future generations of artists.

Individual ticket prices are $500 and $250. Prime tables of ten are available at $10,000 and include an ad in the program book. Tables of ten are also available at $5,000 and $2,500.

The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown has provided a unique service to developing artistic talent for almost forty years. We hope you will join FAWC Fellows and friends in November to acknowledge our illustrious honorees and help FAWC to secure the future.

For more information or to purchase tickets, contact: Gigi Ledkovsky at 508.487.9960 x106 or gledkovsky@fawc,org.

Dinner Co-Chairs: Barbara Kapp, Lynne Kortenhaus and Daniel A. Mullin.

NORMAN MAILER Norman Mailer is one of the most famous post-World War II American writers, a novelist and journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for The Armies of the Night (1968) and The Executioners Song (1979). Mailer became an international literary figure at the age of 29, with the success of The Naked and the Dead (1948), a novel based on his war experiences in the Philippines. His newest novel is The Castle in the Forest. He was elected in 1984 to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and he was given an award for lifetime achievement by the National Book Foundation in 2005. Provincetown has been Mailer's permanent home Ð where he has spent 47 of the last 62 summers and where he has written almost all or part of all of his 40-odd books. Provincetown's purpose, he once said, Òis to be the one town on the Atlantic coast that's just absolutely freer than others, where people can go to find out what they're really made of, because...they want to search out the possibility of being themselves, whatever that self is.Ó The Fine Arts Work Center has served that purpose for the emerging writers and visual artists selected to be Fellows every year for the past forty years. Mailer's presence and support of the Fine Arts Work Center has inspired generations of FAWC Fellows who look upon their seven months spent in Provincetown as a life-changing experience.

MICHAEL MAZUR 's prints, drawings and paintings have been exhibited extensively throughout the country and abroad, and are included in most major collections in the United States, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Tiffany Foundation grant. He has received honorary degrees from the Art Institute of Boston and the College of Creative Studies in Detroit. He has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, Brandeis, the Yale School of Art and Architecture, Boston University and Harvard's Carpenter Center. He is represented by the Mary Ryan Gallery in New York and the Barbara Krakow Gallery in Boston, as well as the Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown. Beyond Michael's enormous artistic gifts, he is being recognized for having led a life in support of other artists and their careers. For many years, he was Co-Chair of FAWC's Board of Trustees and Co-Chaired the Visual Arts Committee, which selects the ten visual arts Fellows every year. He has also taught perhaps the most popular printmaking classes in America each year in FAWC's Summer Workshops.

TED LANDSMARK has been President of the Boston Architectural College, New England's largest independent college of spatial design, since 1997. Dr. Landsmark holds degrees in law and environmental design from Yale University, and a doctorate in American Studies from Boston University. He has taught at M.I.T. and UMass Boston, and has been an administrator at Harvard University and the Massachusetts College of Art. He has practiced architectural law, and worked as Special Assistant to the Mayor of Boston. Landsmark is a Trustee Emeritus of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Chairs the Art of the Americas Visting Committtee. He serves on the Board of the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Boston Fund for the Arts, the North Bennet Street School, the Pro-Arts Consortium, and the Boston Society of Architects. He has also served as a trustee or advisor for Boston's Institute for Contemporary Art, the Boston Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Alliance. Landsmark is a regular contributor to the Maine Antique Digest, and has lectured nationally on architectural education, diversity in the design profession, community organizing, youth violence, arts management and 19th Century African American material culture. Landsmark chaired Boston Mayor Thomas Menino's Task Force on School Assignment in 2004 and has served as National Chair of the AIA Committee on Diversity since 200_. In 2006, he received the Whitney Young Jr. Award from the AIA for his work to promote diversity in the design profession. In 2005, he was elected President-Elect of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, and took office as ACSA President in 2006. He has been a member of the Massachsuetts Institute of Technology Real Estate Advisory Committee from 200_- present.