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We’re pleased to announce that Rebecca Alban Hoffberger, Founder & Director, American Visionary Art Museum, will be the 2011 Katherine Coffey Award recipient.

Rebecca Hoffberger was inducted into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame and awarded the President’s Award of the Maryland YWCA in 2006. In 1998, Hoffberger won The Urban Land Institute’s coveted National Award for Excellence. In addition to Honorary Doctorates from The Maryland Institute College of Art, Villa Julie College and the Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Hoffberger was awarded the title of ‘Dame’ for her work on behalf of establishing medical field hospitals in Nigeria. She has been the recipient of numerous mental health advocacy and equal opportunity awards and has served as a director of Jewish education and on the Board of The Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Center. Hoffberger studied non-traditional medicine in Mexico for three years, helping to deliver babies in remote mountain areas in Morelos. A published author and development consultant for 28 years, at 16, Hoffberger became the first American to apprentice with mime, Marcel Marceau in Paris.

The 2011 Katherine Coffey Award will be presented at the Business and Awards Luncheon at the MAAM Annual meeting on Tuesday, October 11, noon, at the Sheraton City Center in Baltimore, Maryland.