Come tour the galleries and learn about how conservators work to preserve the collections for future generations. Specific examples of pieces in A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes exhibition that require special handling or treatment will be highlighted and the challenges of exhibiting in an historic mansion discussed. Questions about the conservation process will be welcomed. Tour led by Kira Eng-Wilmot, Senior Textile Conservator.
Build your design toolkit! Design Practice is a series of free, drop-in workshops exploring techniques, strategies, and careers in design. No prior experience required—just bring yourself and a creative mindset. This month, join leather artisan Mia Wright-Ross to build, emboss, and paint your own leather clutch or leather keychain. Feeling festive? Design your accessory as a gift! Snacks and hot chocolate will be served.
You’re invited to be among the first to experience our upcoming exhibition, An Atlas of Es Devlin, opening Saturday, November 18th from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. For her first monographic museum exhibition, Es Devlin, the genre-defying British contemporary artist and designer (b. 1971), will install her 30-year archive across the third floor of the...
Design a fun decoration to brighten up any holiday. From matching shapes to unexpected patterns, create a decoration that is eye-catching from every side and bursting with cheer!
Design a fun decoration to brighten up any holiday. From matching shapes to unexpected patterns, create a decoration that is eye-catching from every side and bursting with cheer!
In this curator guided tour of A Dark, a Light, a Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes, visitors will discover the stories behind American textile designer, weaver, and color authority Dorothy Liebes. Liebes had a profound influence across design fields, helping to shape American tastes in areas from interiors and transportation to industrial design, fashion, and film. The “Liebes Look”—which combined vivid color, lush texture, and often a glint of metallic—became inextricably linked with the American modern aesthetic. Tour led by the exhibition’s co-curator, Alexa Griffith, Public Programs Manager
In this curator-guided tour of An Atlas of Es Devlin, visitors will examine the origins, rigor, and depth of Devlin’s process through a compelling journey into her 30-year archive, charting teenage drawings and paintings, to designs for theater, opera, stadium concerts, and ceremonies, to her current engagement with climate and civilizational crises. The exhibition will reveal thematic connections and trace the development of Devlin’s groundbreaking ephemeral architectures. Tour led by the exhibition’s curator, Andrea Lipps, Associate Curator of Contemporary Design and Head, Digital Collecting.
Follow Dorothy Liebes’ lead and design a colorful weaving for a garment. Use the exhibition for inspiration and create a weaving sample by combining eye-catching colors in a unique pattern of your own design.
Follow Dorothy Liebes’ lead and design a colorful weaving for a garment. Use the exhibition for inspiration and create a weaving sample by combining eye-catching colors in a unique pattern of your own design.
