Gold Medal for Consummate Craftsmanship
An award for a lifetime of achievements.
Meet the awardees.
As part of the ACC Biennial Awards, one or more Fellows are recognized as Gold Medalists. Representing an award for a lifetime of achievement, the Gold Medal is the highest award given by ACC. Gold Medal awardees represent the extraordinary among a field of elite craftspeople. Awardees are nominated by the College of Fellows and selected by the ACC Awards Committee.
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Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
Born in 1949 in Sacramento, California, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood is a fiber artist known for her large wall installations and woven works. As a child, Jimenez Underwood worked alongside her parents as a migrant farm laborer. Her father, who was undocumented for many years, was deported several times throughout her childhood. Jimenez Underwood recalls traveling to Mexico with her mother to bring him home, sometimes only to see him apprehended again at the border. Themes of layered identity, bor...
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Sonya Clark
Sonya Clark is an educator and textile artist who makes installations, performances, and sculptures that employ materials and objects like combs, beads, flags, and human hair to celebrate Blackness, interrogate the roots of injustice, and address historical imbalances. She was elected into the College of Fellows in 2020. Clark has created works highlighting notable African American figures, including entrepreneur and activist Madam C.J. Walker and former President Barack Obama. Her fiber art ...
These awards were made possible with support from the
Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation.