Gyöngy Laky (b.Budapest 1944), San Francisco sculptor, is a past recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, Laky’s work is in a number of permanent museum collections. She created a large work commissioned by the Federal Art-in-Architecture Program for the Social Security Administration Building in Richmond, CA, and another for the City Council Chambers in Sacramento, CA. She exhibits her work nationally and internationally (solo exhibitions in England, Denmark, Hungary and Spain). Her most recent solo exhibition was in Sacramento CA September 2012. In 2002-03, she was one of a team of three to develop a comprehensive Arts Master Plan for the new state-of-the-art, Federal Food and Drug Administration campus being built in Maryland. In 2003 “Portfolio Series: Gyöngy Laky,” was published by Telos Arts Publishing in England and the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, released her oral history that year. Her art has appeared in numerous books, magazines and catalogs in the US and abroad including Type Addicted—The new trend of A to Z typo-graphics (Victionary, Hong Kong) 2007 and 3D Typography (Mark Batty Publisher’s, New York) 2010. April 2008, the New York Times Magazine commissioned her to create titles for its environmental issue (the titles received an award from the Type Directors Club). The Smithsonian Institution is assembling a collection of Laky’s personal papers at the Archives of American Art. Laky is now professor emeritus, University of California, Davis, (chair, Department of Art mid-1990s). Both undergraduate and graduate studies were at UC Berkeley. Postgraduate work followed with the UC Professional Studies in India Program. Laky has been a strong supporter of 3GT since its inception, and is a co-sponsor for the 2017 Salon Reading Series.