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Please Join us Wednesday, May 1st at 11:30am for a capstone presentation!
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As her curatorial capstone project, Erin Dowding has been working with the curatorial team at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum on an exhibition titled A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes and its accompanying online exhibition.
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We hope you can join us for this wonderful presentation and some light refreshments!
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Wednesday, May 1st at 11:30am
6th Floor ClassroomÂ
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
9 East 90th Street (Staff Entrance)
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Working in interiors, fashion, transportation, industrial design and film, American textile designer, weaver, and color authority, Dorothy Liebes (1897–1972) helped to shape and define the modern American look across industries and fields. The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum exhibition A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes, on view July 7, 2023 through February 4, 2024, and the accompanying monograph and virtual exhibition, featured more than 175 works including photographs, documents, furniture and textile samples. Research for this exhibition and monograph demanded untangling Liebes's large network of collaborators and collaborations, digging through receipts, correspondence, and scrapbooks, and uncovering a collection of talent working as part of Liebes's studio. All of this was done in order to find new ways to bring Liebes's legacy back into the spotlight of design history and provide a wider understanding of her influence on mid-century modernism.
Presented by the History of Design and Curatorial Studies program at Parsons, the New School and the Cooper Hewitt.
Erin Dowding is an MA candidate in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies program at Parsons School of Design. She is a Curatorial Capstone and Research Fellow in the Textiles Department at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, where she worked on the exhibition A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes and its accompanying online exhibition and published monograph. She is focused on modern American and Nordic design, craft history and education, and textiles. Erin was a Research Fellow for the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation in the summer of 2022 and a Summer Fellow at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2023.
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