Announcement: REMINDER: Rowena Reed Kostellow - Award Ceremony - January 25

On behalf of the Rowena Reed Kostellow Fund, we are happy to
forward the following invitation to the annual award ceremony and silent
auction on Friday, January 25 at 6:00 p.m. at the Knoll showroom in
Manhattan. For more information, please visit www.rowenafund.org, or to
RSVP, please e-mail events@rowenafund.org. All proceeds benefit the
Rowena Reed Kostellow Fund.

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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
Suggested Student Rate: $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 order form available at
www.rowenafund.org

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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