One of the highlights of the 5th Annual Wall Street Collectors Bourse will be a talk by Joel Iskowitz on "Designing Congressional Gold Medals: An Artist's Perspective". Mr. Iskowitz will look back on more than three decades creating unparalleled artworks displayed in the Pentagon, the Capitol and the White House. He's an active United States Air Force artist with oils in the permanent USAF collection.

Twice invited to document space shuttle missions with artwork on permanent display at the Kennedy Space Center Museum, he is the designer of some of our country's most treasured Congressional Gold Medals-including the New Frontier Gold Medal presented to Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin and Mercury astronaut John Glenn in the Rotunda of the Capitol on November 16, 2011. His first Congressional Gold Medal was designed for the Women's Air Force Service Pilots of WWII, followed by the Nisei soldiers and the American Fighter Aces-his Congressional Gold Medals total over a dozen.

Published countless times, with his artworks in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Museum of American History, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum, the New York Historical Society and the Paratroopers Historical Society in France, Mr. Iskowitz has also received the National Oceanic and Philatelic Society citation for his contributions to space philately. His obverse design for the Louis Braille Silver Dollar flew aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis on its mission to service the Hubble Telescope. And this is the short list of his accomplishments. In his talk he will discuss his progression from being "anonymously famous" to one of America's most celebrated artists and medallic designers.

When recently asked how coinage and numismatics reflect a country's culture - political, artistic, and social, he responded:

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