Michelle Grabner Named a National Academician

Crown Family Professor in Painting and Drawing, Michelle Grabner has been named a 2019 National Academy of Design's Academician. With this lifetime honor, Grabner will join the 2019 class and the “unique and incredible lineage: more than 2,350 of the leading innovators and contributors to American art and architecture have been elected since 1825” according to the National Academicians. Those selected serve as ambassadors for the arts in America, following the mission to “promote American art and architecture through exhibition and instruction.”