2012 FREDERIC E. CHURCH AWARD DINNER
Honoring MARTHA STEWART and MORRISON H. HECKSCHER
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
New York Public Library, Celeste Bartos Forum - New York City
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street
6:30 pm Cocktails | 7:30 pm Dinner and Auction

For Gala information, please call 212-245-6570 ext. 21 or email Julie Spero at olana@eventassociatesinc.com.

2012 Honorees: Martha Stewart, CEO founder MSLO and Morrison H. Heckscher, Lawrence A. Fleischman, Chairman of the American Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Event Co-Chairs: Lucy R. Waletzky, MD & Lulu C. Wang

Beneficiary: The Olana Partnership, nonprofit partner of Olana State Historic Site

Event Caterer: Daniel Boulud

Previous honorees: Alice Walton, Jack Warner, Bernadette Castro, John Wilmerding, Franklin Kelly, among others

Event Background: The Frederic Edwin Church Award is a celebration of art, landscape and culture. The Olana Partnership is honoring Martha Stewart for her commitment to American culture, decorative arts and landscape design.

• Frederic Church was a visionary of his time in the fields of art, architecture, landscape and design. Like Church, Martha Stewart has consistently turned her passion for history, architecture, landscape, design, furniture, and art into major public accomplishments.

• Frederic Church's greatest work of art is Olana, his home and designed landscape. Martha Stewart has helped Americans see how they can make their homes and gardens a work of art.

• Olana is thought by many to be one of the most important picturesque landscapes in the country as a recent full-page article in The New York Times describes. Martha Stewart has a deep interest in designed landscapes – the designed landscape of Skylands and her Bedford property attest to this.

• The Olana Partnership works with New York State to advance Olana – a public park – to ensure that it is open and accessible to the widest cross-section of people. Ms. Stewart's longstanding relationships with businesses such as Macy's and Home Depot have helped her to bring her "good things" to a wide cross-section of people. We were thrilled when she followed up her video on Olana with the naming of a product for Home Depot with our name – we are honored to be associated with her "brand".The Olana Partnership is honoring Morrison H. Heckscher for his longstanding commitment to the field of American art and decorative arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

• Morrison H. Heckscher, Lawrence A. Fleischman Chairman of the American Wing and has overseen the restoration of the American Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A member of the staff of the MET since 1969, Mr. Heckscher was appointed the Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts in 1998.(Currently, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen is the Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.) The FEC award at this time is particularly fitting in that it comes when the Metropolitan celebrates the completed development and expansion of its American wing.

• As a scholar, author and advocate, Mr. Heckscher has devoted himself ceaselessly to the care, conservation, preservation and promotion of our American arts.

Olana
The eminent Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) designed Olana, his family home, studio, estate and working farm as an integrated environment embracing architecture, art, and landscape. Considered one of the most important artistic residences in the United States, Olana is a landmark of Picturesque landscape gardening with a Persian-inspired house at its summit, embracing unrivaled panoramic view of the vast Hudson Valley.

The Olana Partnership
The Olana Partnership supports the conservation, preservation, development and improvement of the Olana State Historic Site, which is open to the public throughout the year. Its goal is to inspire the public by preserving and interpreting Olana, and to create the most widely recognized artist's home and studio in the world, vibrant with the activity of students, visitors and scholars.