Jack Lenor Larsen Speaks At Native American Design Benefit

Sept. 25, from 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. and will support the museum’s education programs and activities. The event also includes preview tours of the museum’s exhibition “Identity by Design: Tradition, Change and Celebration in Native Women’s Dresses.”

The luncheon will honor the achievements of beadworker Joe Baker (Delaware Tribe of Indians); master dressmaker Joyce Growing Thunder Fogarty (Assiniboine/Sioux); fashion designer Dorothy Grant (Haida); jewelry artist Veronica Poblano (Zuni); and jewelry artist Denise Wallace (Chugach/Aleut). The co-chairs of the benefit committee are Lois Sherr Dubin, Vivian Henderson and Valerie Rowe.

Larsen is one of the world’s foremost advocates of traditional and contemporary crafts. Known as an innovator in fabric design, he has won many awards, and his is one of only two design houses ever to be honored with an exhibition at the Palais du Louvre. -- www.si.edu