Crash Course: Her Seat at the Table - Session 2: Setting the Table

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 2: SETTING THE TABLE Get to know 20th-century women ceramicists who set the table for wider acknowledgments of women designers
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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 Image Credit: On April 4, 1910, the first kiln of high fire porcelains was fired at the Art Academy of the People's University. The artists who gathered for a photograph include (left to right) Frederick H. Rhead, Samuel Robineau, Edward Gardner Lewis, Adelaide Alsop Robineau, Mabel Gertrude Lewis, Eugene Labarriere, George Julian Zolnay, Emile Diffloth and Taxile Doat. This photograph appeared in "The Woman's National Daily" on April 9, 1910.