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2008 AWARD BENEFIT AND AUCTION
HONORING
JEROME AND EVELYN ACKERMAN

Sunday, September 21, 2008
3 PM - 6 PM

The Museum of California Design’s 5th annual Award Benefit and Auction will honor California designers Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman for their exceptional contributions to American design. For more than 40 years the Ackermans created tapestries, ceramics, metal wares and mosaics for their Los Angeles-based firms, Jenev Design Studio and ERA Industries.

The Ackermans’ work was represented in several of the landmark California Design Exhibitions that were held at the Pasadena Museum
of Art in the 1960s and 70s and at the Pacific Design Center in 1976. Their work is in the permanent collections of a number of museum collections among them the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Oakland Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

The Benefit will include an award ceremony, a live auction conducted by Peter Loughrey, founder and principal auctioneer of LA Modern Auctions, and a silent auction. Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be served and valet parking will be provided. The event is wheelchair accessible.

The MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA DESIGN thanks the following sponsors for making this event possible:

Bon Vivant, Palm Springs
David Bohnett and Tom Gregory
Michael Stern, Inc., New York
LA Modern Auctions
Evans and Susanna Lam

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A limited number of tickets is available on a first-come, first-served basis at $125 each, $90 of which is tax-deductible. To order call 323.930.2700 or e-mail tickets@mocad.org.  To order by mail, print and post the form below with your check to Museum of California Design, P.O. Box 361370, Los Angeles, California 90036

The Museum of California Design is the only organization exclusively dedicated to exhibiting and documenting the full range of California’s rich commercial design history, which we accomplish through traveling exhibitions and public programs. Visit us at www.mocad.org.