Rita St. Clair, F.A.S.I.D. - President


FIRM REGISTRATION
  Maryland Board for Certified Interior Designers
  Washington, D.C. Board of Interior Design
  Virginia Commonwealth Interior Design Board
EDUCATION: FINE ARTS - INTERIOR DESIGN
  Arts Students League, New York City
  University of Iowa, B.F.A. Degree
  Parsons School of Design, New York
  Museum Des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
  Parsons School of Design, Paris, France
ACTIVITIES / PROFESSIONAL
  Maryland Board of Certified Interior Designers - Appointment by Governor 1992-1994
  National Endowment for the Arts - Design Arts Program - Policy Panel Member 1979 - 1982
  American Society of Interior Designers - National President 1979 - 1980
  International Federation of Interior Designers - American Delegate 1978 - 1981
ACTIVITIES / COMMUNITY - PRO BONO
  Interior Design Consultant to various community sponsored projects (The Family Tree, Baltimore School for the Arts, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, Chase-Brexton Clinic, etc.)
  Member of the Board for Meals on Wheels, Central Maryland Chapter
  Member of the Board of Trustees, Maryland Institute College of Art
  Member of the National Board of Trustees (Executive Committee), Design and Industry Foundation for AIDS(DIFFA)
AWARDS
  Fellow of American Society of Interior Designers
  A.I.D. Regional Design Award - 1970
  Baltimore Chapter Award for Interior Design of Center Stage 1977
  A.S.I.D. Scalamandre Award for the Interior of Baltimore City Hall - 1978
  Resources Council Award for the "Best Contempory Seating Design" - 1979
  Hardwood Institute - 1981 Daphne Award for Design Excellence in Upholstered Funiture
  Restaurant & Institutions Awards Program - Award for Interior Design for the John Eager Howard Room, The Belvedere Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland - 1981
  A.S.I.D. Maryland Chapter - Designer of the Year Award - 1981
  A.S.I.D. Maryland Chapter - First Prize - U.S.F.& G. Executive Office - 1983
  A.S.I.D. Ohio Chapter - Orchids Award -Netherland Plaza Hotel - 1983
  Lodging and Hospitality Magazine - Designers Circle Awards, Netherland Plaza Hotel - 1985
  A.I.A. Southeast Region - Award for Renovation - Netherland Plaza Hotel - 1984
  Natinal Trust for Historic Preservaton - Honor Award - Netherland Plaza Hotel - 1985
  Illuminating Engineering Society - First Place - Netherland Plaza Hotel - 1985
  Art Deco Societies of American - Annual Award - Netherland Plaza Hotel - 1985
  A.I.A. Baltimore Chapter - The Octagon - U.S.F.&G. Mt. Washington Center for Outstanding Design Achievement during 1980 - 1985 - "Award for Design Excellence"
  A.S.I.D. National, Designer of Distinction Award - 1986
  Lodging and Hospitality Magazine - Designer Circle Awards Competition, First Place - Peabody Court Hotel - 1986
  Hexter Fabric Award - Best Residential Interior - 1988
  Interior Design Magazine - Hall of Fame Award - 1989
 

Washington Design Center - Hall of Fame Award - 2003

FEATURE ARTICLES & PUBLISHED PROJECTS
  Chicago Tribune Media Services Syndicated Columnist - weekly column - Design Line
  Style Magazine + Baltimore Magazine
  Baltimore Sun + Progressive Architecture
  Connoisseur Magazine + Wall Street Journal
  Lodging and Hospitality + Washington Post
  Women in Design - Rizzoli + Designer Magazine
  Restaurant and Hotel Design + Hotel Design - Rockport Publishers
  The Best From the Interior Design Hall of Fame - Vitae + Interior Design Magazine
  Health Facilities Management Magazine + Southern Accent Magazine
INTERNATIONAL LECTURES & PANEL PARTICIPATION
  International Federation of Interior Designers Conference - Vienna, Austria - 1980
  International Federation of Interior Designers - Helsinki - Finland - 1983
  Scandinavian Furniture Fair - Juror & Panelist - 1987
  DuPont Fibers Design Seminar - Tokyo & Osaka, Japan - 1989
  5th International Design Competition - Juror - Osaka, Japan - 1990
  Japan Design Foundation - Conference Panelist - Fukuoka, Japan - 1991
  The Smithsonian Institute - Resident Associates Program - Series of Six Lectures - Washington, DC - 2000
NATIONAL LECTURES & PANEL PARTICIPATION
  Maryland Institute, College of Art
  Baltimore Museum of Art
  New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
  Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
  Purdue University
  Ball State University
  National Trust for Historic Prreservation, National Conference
  Johns Hopkins University, School of Continuing Education
  University of California
  Ohio State University
  University of Nebraska
  Interior Design Educators' Council (IDEC), National Conference
  San Francisco Conpac 1989 Conference
  Walters Art Gallery, 1991, Baltimore, MD.
  6th Annual RHIDEC Conference, 1991, Los Angeles, CA.
  Philadelphia Market Place, 1991, Philadelphia, PA.
  DuPont Antron Design Award, 1992, New York, NY.
  Capital Design Week, 1992, Washington, D.C.
  IBD/Interior Design Magazine Contract Design Competition, 1992, Chicago, IL.
  Three Arts Club of Homeland, Inc., 1992, Baltimore, MD.
  Executive Women's Network 1996, Baltimore, MD.
  Design ADAC 1996, Atlanta, GA.
  Keynote Speaker Virginia Commonwealth University Architectural Week March 2000 - A Renovation and Adaptive Reuse of Existing Interior Spaces
  Speaker at Product and Design Conferences in U.S. and Europe