Andrea Woodner
{{short description|American architect}}
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Andrea Woodner is an American artist, architect, and philanthropist. She is the founder of the New York City-based Design Trust for Public Space, a nonprofit organization which "brings together government agencies, community groups, and private-sector experts to transform and evolve the city's landscape."{{Cite web|url=http://designtrust.org/how-we-work/|title=Design Trust for Public Space|website=Design Trust for Public Space|access-date=2016-03-05}}
Early life
Andrea Woodner is the daughter of Ruth Lyon and Ian Woodner.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/28/obituaries/jonathan-woodner-real-estate-developer.html|title=Jonathan Woodner, Real Estate Developer|date=April 28, 1988|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-03-05}} She has two siblings, Dian and Jonathan Woodner.
Woodner was raised in New York City and loved art from an early age, often visiting the Frick Collection during her teenage years. She earned a BA with a concentration in ceramics and sculpture from Bennington College in the class of 1970.{{Cite journal|url=https://crossettlibrary.dspacedirect.org/handle/11209/8677|title=Senior Art Exhibition: 1970|date=June 9, 1970|website=Bennington College Digital Repository|publisher=Bennington College|access-date=March 5, 2016}} Later, she took classes at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, then earned a master's in architecture from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.{{Cite web|url=http://www.interiordesign.net/articles/8734-andrea-woodner/|title=2014 Hall of Fame Inductee: Andrea Woodner|website=Interior Design|date=December 6, 2014|language=en-US|access-date=2016-03-05}}
Career
In 1995, Woodner founded the nonprofit organization Design Trust for Public Space to connect design thought and incubation to the public good of New York City.{{Cite web|url=http://designtrust.org/about/|title=Design Trust for Public Space|website=Design Trust for Public Space|access-date=2016-03-05}} She chaired the organization's board of directors until January 2016, when she was succeeded by Eric Rothman. She continues to be active in fundraising for Design Trust.{{Cite web|url=http://designtrust.org/news/welcome-board-chair-eric-rothman/|title=Welcome Our Board Chair Eric Rothman|website=Design Trust for Public Space|access-date=2016-03-05}}
Upon their father's death in November 1990, Andrea and Dian Woodner inherited the Ian Woodner Family Collection.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/02/arts/inside-art-daughters-gift-to-the-modern.html|title=INSIDE ART; Daughters' Gift To the Modern|last=Vogel|first=Carol|date=June 2, 2000|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-03-05}} In 1991, the Woodner sisters variously sold and donated 143 works of art from his collection to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, including drawings by Albrecht Dürer, Benvenuto Cellini, and Giorgio Vasari.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/11/arts/woodner-drawings-go-to-the-national-gallery.html|title=Woodner Drawings Go To the National Gallery|last=Kimmelman|first=Michael|date=October 11, 1991|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-03-05}} In July 2000, the sisters donated nearly 100 works of art by Odilon Redon to the Museum of Modern Art, including paintings, pastels, watercolors, drawings, prints and illustrated books.
Woodner's art has been exhibited at the Palmer Gallery of Vassar College.{{Cite web|url=http://miscellanynews.org/2015/09/30/arts/healy-woodner-hold-their-first-collaborative-exhibit/|title=Healy, Woodner hold their first collaborative exhibit|website=The Miscellany News|access-date=2016-03-05}}
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Category:20th-century American women artists
Category:American women architects
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Category:Bennington College alumni
Category:Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni
Category:Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation alumni
Category:20th-century American philanthropists
Category:20th-century American artists
Category:Architects from New York City
Category:Philanthropists from New York (state)