About the Medal
Art is Communication. Millenium 2000 delivers the message without words. The collector is invited to interpret and determine which is the obverse and reverse.
Into the future a human being advances in time and space: the fourth and fifth dimensions. The ballistic trajectory causes shock waves and tilted arcs, scientifically documented in cinematic studies of wind tunnels with rockets, missiles and airplanes. My design is in harmony with the laws of nature. The star is everyone's aspiration.
This is my multi-lingual love-letter to the world. The nuclear family is our source and our foundation. The nucleus of the atom is our generative power.
Karen Worth, sculptor
About the Artist:
Karen Worth studied at the Tyler Art School and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She studied with Paul Manship and Carl Schmitz. During World War II she worked at the defense plant at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, at 20 she enlisted in the Army Air Force and served as a specialist instructor - physical therapy and mental rehabilitation. In the evenings she worked in cartography and topography creating 3-D terrrain maps of theatres of operations used in training. She is married and has two children.
Karen Worth returned to sculpture in 1959, was elected a fellow of the National Sculpture Society in 1960, and designed her first medal for the Society of Medallists in 1963. Since that time, she has designed over 600 coins and medals including such diverse topics as the US Bicentennial, the Windsor Dynasty, the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, two series of US Presidents, Milestones in Space, and many others. She also continued with monument and architectural sculpture. She has been awarded the American Numismatic Society's Saltus Medal of Signal Achievement in the art of the medal, and the ANA's Sculptor of the year gold medal.
She served for 22 years as an EMT, and recently served three years as commander of J.W.V. Post #756, using her time visiting Hospitals and raising funds for disabled vets.
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