Who Are
I.M. Pei, Richard Meier, Frank Gehry, Philip Johnson, Clause Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, and George Segal hanging with these days?

The Dirsmith Group is proud to announce the Election to Membership of Ron Dirsmith to the National Academy of Design in New York.

The National Academy was chartered in 1825. Its membership and exhibits can be compared to those in the Paris Salon and the Royal Academy in London. The achievement of National Academician (NA) represents recognition of an artist within the professional arts community. It is a national honor bestowed upon an artist and cannot be applied for.

There are currently only 72 living architects who have been elected to the National Academy. They include: Philip Johnson, Richard A. Meier, Frank O. Gehry, Henry N. Cobb and I.M. Pei.

Some of the painters who are current members include Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Gyorgy Kepes, Frank Stella, Andrew Wyeth and Larry Rivers. Sculptors include Aldo Casanova, Claes Oldenburg and Richard Hunt.

Ron was elected based upon recogniziing the North Shore Unitarian Church (Deerfield, Illinois) € Hope Unitarian Church (Tulsa, Oklahoma) € Congregation KAM/ISAIAH ISRAEL (Chicago, Illinois) € and The Dirsmith Group's International Traveling Exhibit, "The Creative Human Environment."