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Gyöngy Laky (born in Budapest, Hungary, 1944) is an American sculptor living and working in San Francisco, California. Her work has been  exhibited in the U.S., Europe, Asia and South America and is in 24 museum and public permanent collections. Laky created a large work commissioned by the Federal  Art-in-Architecture Program for the Social Security Administration  Building in Richmond, CA and another for the City Council Chambers in Sacramento, CA.  She is a past recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant as well as a number of awards. In 2002-03, she was one of a  team of three to develop a comprehensive Arts Master Plan for the new  state-of-the-art, US Federal Food and Drug Administration campus being built in Maryland. In 2003, the Bancroft Library at UC, Berkeley, released her oral history. Her personal papers are in the Smithsonian Institution‘s Archives of American Art, Washington, DC. Laky’s art has  appeared in numerous books, videos, magazines, catalogs and newspapers in the US and abroad. April 2008, the New York Times Magazine  commissioned her to create titles for its environmental issue (the  titles received an award from the Type Directors Club). Both her undergraduate and graduate studies were pursued at University of California, Berkeley. Postgraduate work followed with the U C Professional Studies in India Program. Upon her return, she founded the  internationally recognized Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts, (1) where  she established accredited undergraduate (BFA) and graduate (MFA) programs in the mid-1970's. She joined the faculty at UC Davis in 1978  and soon after initiated establishing the independent Department of Environmental Design. In the early 1990's she developed a graduate program. As of the late 1990's, Laky, a strong advocate for  environmental sustainability curricula, initiated a number of courses  regarding environmental issues, converting classes to focus on sustainability in art and design. As of 2005, Laky is Professor  Emeritus of University of California, Davis, (chair, Department of Art  mid-1990s).

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