Marion Boulton “Kippy” Stroud
Marion Boulton Stroud is the founder and artistic director of the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. Under her visionary leadership since 1977, the Fabric Workshop and Museum has become a world-class institution, the only nonprofit arts organization and museum in the United States that commissions cutting-edge artists to collaborate in creating new work in new media and new materials. Known to friends and colleagues as “Kippy,” Ms. Stroud was director and chairman of Prints in Progress, an inner-city Philadelphia after school art program, from 1971 to 1977 and founded the dynamic Acadia Summer Arts Program/Kamp Kippy in Maine in 1993.
Ms. Stroud has been a board member of the Philadelphia Museum of Art since 1977; has served as the chairman of its Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Committee since 1982; and is a member of its Accessioning, Deaccesioning, African American, and Building Committees. She also serves on the National and Video Committees of the Whitney Museum and on the International and Video Councils of the Museum of Modern Art. She was made an honorary member of both the American Crafts Council and the Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania. She has been a panelist and reviewer for the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and serves on the General Services Administration’s Design Excellence Program. In 1991 she was honored with the prestigious Skowhegan Governor’s Award for Outstanding Service to the Arts.
In addition to her other roles, Ms. Stroud is the author of numerous books, including the award-winning New Materials as New Media: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, and An Industrious Art: Innovation in Pattern and Print at the Fabric Workshop. Other titles to her credit include Jorge Pardo: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Carrie Mae Weems: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Swarm: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Lee Bul: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Will Stokes Jr., and monographs devoted to Jonathan Bepler, Mark Bradford, Senga Nengudi, Ana Rosa Rivera, Jean Shin, and others.
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