12th Rowena Reed Kostellow Award

Please join us in presenting the 12th Rowena Reed Kostellow Award to: Lucia DeRespinis Award ceremony and silent auction benefiting the RRK fund: Friday, January 25, 2008, 6:00 PM Knoll Showroom, 76 Ninth Avenue (corner of 15th Street) New York Individual: $50 Patron: $500 or more Students: $20 (tax deductible donation) R.S.V.P. required: events@rowenafund.org For donations or advanced ticket purchasing (by Jan. 20th) download and use the attached form or visit www.rowenafund.org photo: Micheal Krondl Lucia N. DeRespinis Lucia N. DeRespinis is being honored for her dedication to three-dimensional design as a designer and educator. Lucia has been an Industrial Designer for over fifty years and is an Adjunct Professor at Pratt Institute where she studied with Rowena Reed. She worked with George Nelson, Charles and Ray Eames, Buckminster Fuller, and Bill Katavolos. She has designed exhibitions, dinnerware, clocks, is renowned for picking the pink and orange color scheme for Dunkin' Donut's, and her students continue to relay her excitement. Rowena Reed Kostellow Alexander Kostellow, her husband, Donald Dohner and she created Pratt Institute's Industrial Design program. Their objective was to develop an educational system through analysis of abstract visual relationships that would be valid for all forms of expression: architecture, interior, product, graphic design, and art. The program has influenced many around the world. For over 50 years, Rowena taught three-dimensional design at Pratt Institute where she told her students: "If you can't make it more beautiful, what's the point?" The Rowena Reed Kostellow Fund and Award The Rowena Reed Kostellow Fund at Pratt Institute was organized after her death in 1988 to help continue her teachings by supporting scholarships, publishing and programs. Gail Hannah wrote a book about her and the program Elements of Design, published by Princeton Architectural Press that has now been translated into Japanese and Korean. Inspired by Rowena's teaching, the Fund encourages a systematic educational approach to all forms of visual expression. For 20 years the Fund has rewarded those who have excelled with the application of those ideas in an annual student "scholarship" award and awards for professionals who advance the principals of abstract visual relationships. Each year a student excercise is selected to be transformed into the trophy. In 2005, the Alexander Kostellow Scholarship program joined the Fund. For more information please visit: www.rowenafund.org

Past Recipients: Gina Caspi Ivan Rigby Eva Zeisel Gerald Gulotta William Fogler Eugene Grossman Ralph Appelbaum James Fulton Bruce Hannah Louis Nelson Judy Collins Ted Muehling Fund Chair Tucker Viemeister Vice Chair Lisa Smith Chair Emeritus Louis Nelson Trustees Matthew Burger Michele Oka Doner Adele Kostellow Morrill RitaSue Siegel Craig Vogel Committee Leonard Bacich Peter Barna Gina Caspi Linda Celentano Gerald Gulotta Bruce Hannah Gail Greet Hannah Kate Hixon Debera Johnson Jeffrey Kapec Seth Kornfeld Giovanni Pellone Ruth Lande Shuman Scott Vandervoort Silas Warren

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