2012 Sackler Center First Awards: Toni Morrison
Channel: Brooklyn Museum
Date: 2012-11-14

In 1993, novelist Toni Morrison became the first African American woman to receive a Nobel Prize. She is the author of nine major novels and is the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, emerita, at Princeton.

On Wednesday, April 18, 2012, fifteen extraordinary women who are first in their fields were honored with Sackler Center First Awards. The event commemorated the fifth anniversary of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, the first center within an art museum to be devoted to the exhibition and study of feminist art. The event was presented by Elizabeth A. Sackler and Gloria Steinem and hosted by Soledad O'Brien and Laura Flanders. The award was designed by Judy Chicago. Video courtesy of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation.