[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 156 (Saturday, November 8, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Pages S12197-S12198]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         DANIEL URBAN KILEY, 1997 NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNER

  Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, it is with great pleasure that I pay 
tribute to Daniel Urban Kiley, a landscape architect from Charlotte, 
Vermont, who was named by President Clinton as recipient of the 1997 
National Medal of Arts. Established by Congress in 1984, this award 
honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the arts 
in our nation.
  My wife, Marcelle, and I have enjoyed the work of Daniel Urban Kiley 
for many years and I am honored that a Vermonter, and a friend, has 
received this national recognition.
  I ask to have printed in the Record a list of Mr. Kiley's 
accomplishments put together by the awards committee.
  The material follows:

       As one of this country's most eminent landscape architects, 
     Daniel Kiley combines

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     experience and imagination with the vision to create classic 
     civic design where building and site come together as one. In 
     a professional career spanning over 50 years, Kiley has 
     worked on some of this country's most important commissions 
     along with many of today's most distinguished architects and 
     firms in 16 foreign countries. He has helped design sites 
     including the Washington Mall, the National Gallery of Art 
     East Wing, National Sculpture Garden--all in Washington, D.C. 
     More recently, he worked on the design of the Pittsburgh 
     Cultural Trust plaza and museum, the Soros residence, and 
     Riverfront Park in Corning, New York. He is the recipient of 
     many awards and honors including the 1995 Arnold W. Brunner 
     Prize in Architecture, the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement 
     Award from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a 1991 
     Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts from the Vermont 
     Council on the Arts. Kiley's work has been shown at the 
     Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Library of Congress, 
     and in traveling national exhibitions. He has lectured 
     extensively and served on many design juries. His work has 
     been widely published in the U.S. and abroad. In 1998, Kiley 
     will publish a book exploring the breadth of his work. He 
     served on President Kennedy's Advisory Council for 
     Pennsylvania Avenue, the National Council on the Arts, the 
     Boston Redevelopment Authority, the Cambridge Redevelopment 
     Authority, the Washington, D.C. Redevelopment Land Agency, 
     and the Vermont Council on the Arts. He also has been a 
     Landscape Architect-in-Residence at the American Academy in 
     Rome. Kiley's designs have been widely cited for their 
     ability to raise public consciousness and enhance awareness 
     of man's relationship to nature, while maintaining a sense of 
     joyousness, fun, and excitement.

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