Pathmakers
Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury and Today
28th April - 27th September | Museum of Arts & Design | New York, USA
Tuesday - Sunday | 10 am - 6 pm / Thrusday & Friday | 10 am – 9 pm
Featuring more than 80 works,Pathmakers focuses on a core cadre of women—including Ruth Asawa, Edith Heath, Sheila Hicks, Karen Karnes, Dorothy Liebes, Alice Kagawa Parrott, Lenore Tawney, and Eva Zeisel—who had impact and influence as designers, artists, and teachers, using materials such as clay, fiber, and metals in innovative ways.
The exhibition also highlights contributions of European émigrés, including Anni Albers and Maija Grotell, who brought with them a conviction that craft could serve as a pathway to modernist innovation.