David Revere McFadden 

David Revere McFadden is currently Chief Curator and Vice President for Programs and Collections at the Museum of Contemporary Arts and Design (formerly American Craft Museum) in New York City. Prior to this he was in Taos, New Mexico acting as Executive Director of the Millicent Rogers Museum; before that, and since 1978 he was with the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York; initially as Curator of Decorative Arts/Applied Arts and then as Assistant Director for Collections and Research. Mr. McFadden graduated magna cum laude at the University of Minnesota, where he also received an M.A. in the same subject (History of Art). He has organized over 150 exhibitions, and has been the author of over 100 catalogues, essays and critical reviews, including L’Art de Vivre: Decorative Arts and Design in France 1879-1989 (1989); Defining Craft: Collecting for the New Millennium (2000); Venetian Glass (2000) and Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation/Contemporary Native American Art from the Southwest (2002). Mr. McFadden has published over 100 catalogues, articles and reviews, including works dealing with historical and contemporary decorative arts and design. For Scandinavian Modern Design 1880-1980, he received the Wittenborn Prize; and for Wine: Celebration and Ceremony, the Presidential Design Award.