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of many honors, including
induction into the American
Craft Council College of Fel-
lows (1992) and the Society
of North American Gold-
smiths Lifetime Achievement
Award (2006).
.. Mildred
Constantine, an authority on
art and design who brought
new stature to contemporary
textiles, graphic art and other
underrecognized forms, died
December 10 at her home in
Nyack, New York. She was
95. As a curator in the archi-
tecture and design depart-
ment at the Museum of Mod-
ern Art from 1943 to 1970, she
was responsible for many
groundbreaking shows, in-
cluding “The Object Trans-
formed” (1966), “Word and
Image” (1968) and “Wall
Hangings” (1969). Constan-
tine later coauthored, with
Jack Lenor Larsen, two clas-
sic books on the new textile
art movement,
Beyond Craft:
The A rt Fabric
(1973), and
The
/lrt Fabric: Mainstream
(1981).
She and Larsen also organized
the exhibitions “Frontiers in
Fiber Art: The Americans”
(1988) and “Small Works in
Fiber” (2002). “What distin-
guishes any art from a craft
is why, not how, it is done,”
Constantine remarked in
1992, on the occasion of her
designation as an Honorary
American Craft Council
Fellow. “It is the privilege of
art to join the rational and
the magical.”
Inspired
Because he was recovering
from disc surgery, the embroi-
derer Stephen Beal (Stephen
beal.com) couldn’t travel
from his home in Colorado to
Honolulu in December for
the nth biennial symposium
of the Textile Society of
America, where he was hon-
ored with the 2008 Lillian
Elliott Award. He sent a mes-
sage instead, in which he spoke
of his love for color (“the prime
motivator in my work” as in
The Periodic Table o f the A rtist’s
Colors®
), and how the written
word-Gertrude Stein, Flau-
bert, his own poetry—inspires
his needlework. Created in
memory of fiber artists Elliott
and Joanne Segal Brandford,
the prize is given every two
years to an emerging or mid-
career artist who is “taking
risks and exploring new visual
ideas.” textilesociety.org.
Real Photo/Joe Coca.
