FINE ARTS WORK CENTER DISTINGUISHED
SERVICE
IN THE ARTS AWARDS BENEFIT
On November 5, 2007, FAWC’s Fifth Awards Benefit was held in Cambridge
at the Hotel Marlowe. The Gilbert Franklin Medal for Distinguished Service in
the Arts was presented to Michael Mazur, Norman Mailer and Dr. Theodore
C. Landsmark, president of the Boston Architectural College. The bronze
medal was specially commissioned, designed and named for the late Gilbert
Franklin, sculptor and teacher, and former Co-Chair of FAWC’s Board of
Trustees. The medal is presented to artists, writers, patrons and individuals of
national distinction who have provided exceptional guidance and inspiration
to emerging artists and writers.
Joyce Kulhawik, Arts & Entertainment Anchor for WBZ-TV Boston, was the
mistress of ceremonies. The medals were presented by Robert Jay Lifton, writer
and psychiatrist, to Norman Mailer, and accepted on his behalf by Dr. Lifton; by
Malcolm Rogers, the Ann and Graham Gund Director of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston (MFA), to Michael Mazur; and by Robert Campbell, architectural critic, to
Ted Landsmark.
The net proceeds of almost $50,000 will be used to help match a grant of
$205,000 from the newly-established Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund for
the reconstruction of the historic Days Lumberyard Building in Provincetown, the
final phase of FAWC’s Building For The Future capital campaign.
Past Award recipients include Robert Pinsky, Nancy Spero and Leon Golub, Alix
Ritchie and Marty Davis, Chuck Close, William Kennedy, Stephen D. and Susan
W. Paine, Robert Blackburn, Grace Paley, Louise Bourgeois and Stanley Kunitz.
