2012 Sackler Center First Awards
Channel: Brooklyn Museum
Date: 2012-04-25

In commemoration of 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 Museum is honoring fifteen extraordinary women who are first in their fields. 

Presented by Elizabeth A. Sackler and Gloria Steinem
Hosted by Soledad O'Brien and Laura Flanders.

Award designed by Judy Chicago.

Honoring

Marin Alsop,
Connie Chung,
Johnnetta B. Cole,
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay,
Sandy Lerner,
Lucy R. Lippard,
Chief Wilma Mankiller,
 (posthumous)
Toni Morrison,
Linda Nochlin,
Jessye Norman,
Associate Justice,
 Sandra Day O'Connor (Ret.),
Judith Rodin,
Muriel Siebert,
Susan Stroman,
Faye Wattleton.

Sackler Center Fifth
Anniversary Committee

Dorothy Abbott,
Beverly Ehrlich,
Nicole Ehrlich,
Stephanie Ingrassia,
Carol Jenkins,
Helen Kornblum,
Myrna Ruskin,
Elizabeth A. Sackler,
Gloria Steinem,
Regina Tully,
Lola C. West.

This event took place at the Brooklyn Museum Wednesday, April 18, 2012. Video courtesy of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation.

www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/