Toni Prestini

About Toni Prestini

Antoinette Lackner Webster (Toni Prestini) (1909-1998, United States) was an award-winning designer and teacher, who was known for textile designs that used elevated materials in simple weaves for pronounced texture. Born in Illinois, Lackner received her bachelor's degree in art from Vassar College in 1930. She taught in day schools while taking classes at the School of Design in Chicago before receiving a master's degree in art with an emphasis on weaving from North Texas State Teachers College (now the University of North Texas) in 1944. In 1945, she returned to teach in Lake Forest, Illinois and enrolled as a weaving student at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where she studied with Marianne Strengell and won the academy's first weaving prize in 1947. She continued to weave and exhibit as Antoinette Lackner Webster following her marriage to Frank J. Webster in 1948, but not professionally after the early 1950s.

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