This program is sold out. join us at an evening panel celebrating eva zeisel’s playful search for beauty. 

Collection Viewing and Workshop

Join us for an afternoon exploring the creative legacy and refined design process of Eva Zeisel (American, b. Hungary, 1906–2011). Yao-Fen You, senior curator and head of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department, and Olivia Barry, industrial designer and Zeisel’s longtime design assistant, will lead an intimate collections viewing followed by a hands-on workshop. Led by Sarah Barack, Senior Objects Conservator and Head of Conservation, workshop participants will examine Zeisel’s work in pattern and repetition across ceramics, textiles, felt, and metalwork, and create their own works inspired by Zeisel’s process.

Check-in: 2:30 p.m.

Program: 3:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.

This program is sold out. join us at an evening panel celebrating eva zeisel’s playful search for beauty. 

About Eva Zeisel

Eva Zeisel’s career was international in scope and spanned more than 75 years. Known for lyrical and shapely ceramics, she produced over 100,000 objects. She described her approach to design as “the playful search for beauty.” In 1946, she became the first American designer to create an all-white Modern dinner service, for which she was honored with a special exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. As a professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, she was the first to teach ceramics as industrial design for mass production rather than as a handicraft. At the age of 98, Zeisel was honored with the 2005 National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement.

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