National Advisory Committee

A National Advisory Committee of four distinguished leaders in the fields of art and architecture assisted the IMA in developing plans for 100 Acres: The Virgina B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park. The advisors included: John Beardsley, senior lecturer in the landscape architecture department at Harvard Design School; Mary Beebe, director of the Stuart Collection, University of California, San Diego; Reed Kroloff, director of Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and former editor of Architecture magazine; and Ned Rifkin, former Undersecretary for Art at the Smithsonian.