March 26-27, 2010 INSPIRING WOMEN exhibition

By jennyswadosh on March 31st, 2010

Inspiring Women: Selected Designers from Parsons’ Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Archives

As students, teachers, mentors and professionals, women from Parsons have been at the forefront of design study and practice since the school’s founding in 1896. INSPIRING WOMEN offers glimpses into the education and professional lives of 16 women who attended and taught at Parsons between the 1910s and the 1990s. Through original design work, photographs, notebooks, publicity materials, correspondence, clippings and business records, INSPIRING WOMEN explores changes in the worlds of graphic, interior and fashion design over the course of the 20th century, changes often spearheaded by Parsons’ women as they broke new creative and professional ground, mentored and promoted one another, experimented with new modes of representation, and won expanded opportunity and recognition for women in design.

INSPIRING WOMEN is being held in conjunction with the conference, NO LONGER IN EXILE: The Legacy and Future of Gender Studies at The New School, which will take place adjacent to the exhibit in the Theresa Lang Center, March 26-27, 2010. This exhibition was made possible in part with support from Parsons’ School of Art and Design History and Theory.

Exhibition held at The New School, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY and continuing from March 29-May 31 at Gimbel Library, Parsons The New School for Design
2 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor.

FREE. For more information, please contact kac [at] newschool.edu

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Tags: archives, arts, design, education, exhibition, New York, professionals, women's history

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