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Hillwood Art Museum Wins First
Prize for Publications Hillwood Art Museum, located on the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, NY, has won first prize for the design of its exhibition catalogue for "A Walk Through the Ages: Chinese Archaic Art from the Sondra Landy Gross Collection." The award, which acknowledges excellence in the graphic design of museum publications, is the only national, juried event involving publications by museums of all kinds and sizes, according to the American Association of Museums (AAM). Barry Stern, Director of Hillwood Art Museum, said, "we are incredibly honored to be recognized by the American Association of Museums. This publication and award are welcome recognition of Hillwood Art Museum’s commitment to aesthetic excellence, as demonstrated through the exhibition catalogue." The winning publication, "A Walk Through the Ages: Chinese Archaic Art from the Sondra Landy Gross Collection," designed by Giona Maiarelli of Maiarelli Design, based in Huntington, New York, is an elegant, full-color 218 page book. It includes photography by John Bigelow Taylor, essays by Richard A. Pegg, Ph.D., and illustrations and historic charts by various contributors. Production of the catalogue was sponsored by art patron Sondra Landy Gross. In the book’s acknowledgements, Landy Gross writes, "Giona Maiarelli… has an astute eye for presenting the [collection] in the most interesting and flowing fashion… our team would have been incomplete without him." In the foreword, Stern writes, "Giona Maiarelli, the catalogue designer, and John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler, photographers, created a sensitive and thought provoking volume." This year’s AAM competition drew more than 950 entries, which were judged within categories based on museum budgets. Hillwood Art Museum won in the category of exhibition catalogues for museums with budgets of less than $500,000. Additional categories included Posters, Books, Newsletters, Magazines, Scholarly Journals, Invitations to Events, Press Kits, and Annual Reports, among others. The awards were presented in May and are listed on the AAM’s website at www.aam-us.org. Hillwood Art Museum, located on the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, NY, presents a year-round schedule of temporary and permanent exhibitions that cover topics from antiquity to the cutting edge of contemporary art. Hillwood Art Museum’s impressive and eclectic Permanent Collection consists of objects dating from the earliest of man’s creative endeavors to contemporary art. The Museum conducts an active and well-attended Education Program that includes Family Day activities, a Tuesday Evening Lecture and Performance Series, and extensive hands-on educational programs for local schools. For additional information, please visit the Museum’s website at www.liu.edu/museum or phone (516) 299-4073.
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