2008 - - Albert Paley is internationally recognized for large scale gateways and entrances including the Animal Always Plaza at the St. Louis Zoological Park, the Portal Gates of the Smithsonian Institution’s Renwick Gallery and the entrance gates of the Good Shepard Chapel of the National Cathedral. His sculptures are included in collections of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, the Smithsonian’s Museum of American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Paley is the first metal sculptor to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Institute of Architects. The artist and his design team work out of large production facilities in Rochester, New York.