Caroline Warner Hightower

Caroline Warner Hightower (born 1935) is an American arts executive, consultant, and former executive director of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA).

Early life and education Caroline Warner Hightower was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts where her father, Lloyd Warner, had a joint appointment at Harvard in the Department of Anthropology and the Harvard Business School. Her family moved to the Chicago when her father was appointed professor of anthropology and sociology at the University of Chicago. She attended Northwestern University, 1953; audited courses through Newnham College, Cambridge University (England) 1954; graduated from Pomona College, Claremont, CA., 1958.

Career From 1958 to 1976, Hightower worked at the University of California Press as a graphic designer, then moved to New York where she worked as an editor for McGraw Hill and The Saturday Review, and as a grant officer at Carnegie Corporation, where she was involved with the development of Sesame Street as a consultant. During this period she was also an editorial consultant to the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, The State University of New York and the United Nations. who was the former director of the New York State Council on the Arts, director of the Museum of Modern Art, president of the South Street Seaport Museum and director of the Mariners' Museum. and a son Matthew Lloyd Hightower, and four grandchildren.

Publications How Much Are Students Learning? Research paper for the Carnegie Commission on Education, 1973 Private Philanthropy and Public Need: the Arts for the Filer Commission, presented to Congress; 1974 Essay Caroline Hightower, Design Advocate by David R Brown in Graphic Design USA 16 Published by American Institute of Graphic Arts, Distributed by Watson Guptil, 1995 . Symbol Signs: The complete study of passenger/pedestrian-oriented symbols developed by The American Institute of Graphic Arts for the U.S. Department of Transportation Hightower was the interviewer for the WGBH TV archival interview with AIGA medalist Paul Rand.

Graphic Design in America: A visual Language History Foreword Published by Harry N. Abrams 1989