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Article: Women's work.(various handicrafts, various artists;Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York, New York)
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- House Beautiful
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- November 1, 2000
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An electrifying exhibition honors 230 American designing women of the 20th century and uncovers a trove of long-neglected talents
When design historian Pat Kirkham first told her boss, Susan Weber Soros, founder and director of the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture about her proposed exhibition on 20th-century design by women in this country, the sophisticated Soros had one immediate reaction. "It won't all be quilts, will it?" she asked. As it turns out, the show "Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity in Difference" does indeed include a number of remarkable handmade bedcovers. But this ambitious project also ...
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Article: Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity ...
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...Women Designers in the USA, 1900 ... in association with Bard Graduate Center, January 2001 ... the contributions of women designers in a wide range of ... and African American women designers receive focused surveys ...
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