Crash Course: Her Seat at the Table - Session 4: Taking a Seat

Pull up a chair and discover the fascinating lives of an array of women who carved, wove, dyed, hammered, and shaped their own course in design history. Explore watershed moments and key locations of twentieth-century design thinking and making including the Bauhaus school in Germany and the Good Design program at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Learn about precedent-setting women who interrupted and created pathways through male-dominated fields at midcentury and meet contemporary women designers who are currently redefining their crafts.
SESSION 4: TAKING A SEAT Explore current revisionist design histories that are leading to the greater inclusion of women and discover the furniture influencers of today who bring their own unique seats to the table.
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About Crash Courses at Carnegie Museum of Art:
Crash Course is an ongoing series of topic-specific art history courses hosted by Carnegie Museum of Art. Past courses have focused on artists' depictions of urban industry, Renaissance and Baroque art, and many others.
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Thumbnail caption: Raw-Edges, British, 2007-present; Endgrain bench, 2015, assorted dyed woods; Carnegie Museum of Art, Alan G. and Jane A. Lehman Acquisition Fund and Richard L. Simmons Acquisition Fund, 2020.53 © Raw-Edges