2012 Fall: Goldstein Museum of Design

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GOLDSTEIN MUSEUM OF DESIGN NEWS

We the Designers Reframing Political Issues in the Obama Era

Pickard Chilton Designing Relationships

Circumstantial Evidence Italy through the Lens of Balthazar Korab

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HAPPENINGS QUEST FOR THE WORLD’S BEST BASKETS OPENED JUNE 9

VJAA RECEPTION JUNE 15

Darlene Carroll, BS, interior design and Olaf Lukk, B Arch, Architecture

GOPHER CAMP Throughout the summer, Gopher Camp students significantly raised the energy level in the gallery during their visits to the exhibition Quest for the World’s Best Baskets.

WELCOME NEW GRAD STUDENTS

Natasha Thoreson (left) is the new Collection Assistant and Sharlene Balik is the new Communications Assistant 2

GOLDSTEIN MUSEUM OF DESIGN

DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Pauline Altermatt and Dolores DeFore, Honorary Co-Chairs of “Mad About Design”

We the Designers: Reframing Political Issues in the Obama Era

A good benefit event can accomplish many things for an organization. It can be a significant fundraiser, introduce the organization and its exciting mission to potential members and supporters, and provide an opportunity to recognize some of the key individuals who have contributed to the organization’s success.

For GMD’s Fall 2012 event, Mad About Design, the honorary co-chairs were two such important figures—Pauline Altermatt and Dolores DeFore.

Both Pauline and Dolores were very successful in retail, and each contributed knowledge of the design industry, organization of complex projects, and network of professional associations to advance GMD. Pauline was an active member of the Friends’ board from 1987 through 2004, eventually leading the group as president. She was instrumental in promoting the collection as a resource for designers, a strong supporter of GMD’s mission, and a passionate advocate for the museum to the wider community.

Dolores was also a member of the board and an avid volunteer with the apparel collection. She completed a five-year project to reorganize and catalog the 20th century ready-to-wear apparel and co-curated the exhibition American Fashion Transformed: Four Master Designers. Dolores is well known for the lively Collection Close-ups she and the late Gloria Hogan presented to packed audiences. Attendees report that these popular programs were often their introduction to GMD’s unique collection.

Pauline and Dolores, you are remarkable volunteers who have helped GMD become a valuable professional resource for designers and design students. We honor your profound contributions to GMD and your support of the Goldstein sisters’ goal of good design for everyone.

Yours in design, Lin Nelson-Mayson

September 29–December 30, 2012 241 McNeal Hall, St. Paul Campus See pages 4 and 5

Pickard Chilton—Designing Relationships September 22–October 21, 2012 HGA Gallery, Rapson Hall, Minneapolis Campus See page 6

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS Circumstantial Evidence– Photographs by Balthazar Korab October 27–December 16, 2012 HGA Gallery, Rapson Hall, Minneapolis Campus Reception/Book Signing–October 29, 6–8pm See page 7

Rural Design: A New Design Discipline January 12–March 10, 2013 HGA Gallery, Rapson Hall, Minneapolis Campus Reception/Book Signing–date tbd Rural areas worldwide are undergoing profound change, creating considerable challenges and stress on rural residents and the ecosystems upon which they depend. Rural Design brings design thinking and the problem-solving process of design to rural issues, recognizing that human and natural systems are inextricably coupled and engaged in continuous cycles of mutual influence and response.

This exhibition outlines the theoretical base for rural design and the importance of looking at connecting issues to create synergy and optimal solutions from a global, national, state, region, and local perspective

Redefining, Redesigning Fashion January 19-May 26, 2013 241 McNeal Hall, St. Paul Campus Until now the issue of sustainability has not been embraced in a significant way by apparel designers working in the American apparel industry. This exhibition is based on the idea that sustainable clothing designs will become a viable alternative when designers and producers provide truly innovative clothing designs that appeal to consumers. Featured in the exhibition will be the most successful designs of designers and students from across the country, all of whom responded to an invitation to submit apparel designs that exemplify sustainability. The submitted design prototypes are the result of upcycling, repurposing, or reclaiming garments, materials, or products; garments that have multiple purposes or looks; or converting heirloom or memorable garments or textiles to a different use.

Jens Jensen: Celebrating the Native Prairie Delores DeFore and Diane Hogan

Linda Boelter and Pauline Altermatt FALL 2012

HGA Gallery, Rapson Hall, Minneapolis Campus March 23–May 12, 2013 Danish immigrant Jens Jensen became a leading figure in landscape architecture during the early 20th century. Emphasizing the use of native plants and natural materials, his designs and philosophies continue to influence gardeners and landscapers today.

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Daniel Jasper American, b. 1961 The Uncanny Valley 2011 Collage using George Bush-era New York Times newspaper pages, gesso, screened prints 32 x 65 in.

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GOLDSTEIN MUSEUM OF DESIGN

EXHIBITIONS

September 29–December 30, 2012 Panel Discussion Wednesday, October 24, 6–8 PM, Room 22, McNeal Hall This Presidential election year, GMD presents an exhibition whose timeliness and content showcase an aspect of graphic design that is always present but rarely called out: that graphic design is in service to ideas.

We the Designers proposes that graphic designers can inform and persuade the public about issues facing the Obama administration.

They can do this through graphic design that clearly and powerfully conveys messages and information.

Thomas Starr, faculty member in the Department of Art + Design at Northeastern University in Boston, states:

Barack Obama is often cited as America’s first black president. While his father is Negro, his mother is Caucasian – doesn’t that make him America’s first multi-racial president?

To both support and derision, the 2010 U.S. Census re-inserted the term “Negro” (dropped decades ago) adjacent to “black” and “African American” as racial labels.

Selecting “some other race” and writing in a term is also an option. Citizens can also check more than one race term.

Because there’s no specific gene for race, much of America’s definition of race is strongly related to socio-cultural, geographic and economic factors, and is manifest in entrenched class and identity distinctions. Notions of race are socially constructed and continuously evolving.

1. Cohen, R. (2 June 2011) “A White Woman From Kansas” essay in The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/ opinion/03iht-edcohen03.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

Steven McCarthy American, b. 1958 Dad + Mom 2011 Toner on paper 26 x 26 in.

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“We the Designers is a national exhibition of self-authored graphic design. Through the process of design thinking, participants inform and persuade about issues facing the Obama administration.

Sometimes the verbal component is dominant; sometimes it is subordinate; and sometimes it is subsumed in symbolic imagery. Some designers tackle issues that transcend any single administration…others address this administration’s policies.

Still others focus on the President himself. All have one thing in common. They are the visual/verbal voice of civic engagement by we (the designers) who made them.”

The exhibition features the work of 31 graphic designers, illustrators, artists, and filmmakers, including College of Design graphic design faculty members Daniel Jasper and Steven McCarthy. Exhibition objects include videos, posters, newspaper typography, online graphics, and original artwork.

Don’t miss this edgy, thought-provoking exhibition. Join us for the Panel Discussion, Design and Political Communication, Wednesday, October 24, 6–8 PM, 22 McNeal Hall. Featuring David Brauer, MinnPost local media reporter; Daniel Jasper, associate professor of graphic design; Steven McCarthy, professor of graphic design; and Trevor Miller (facilitator), CDes director of external affairs and previously political & communications director for the reelection campaign of Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.)

The so-called ‘one drop rule,’ which advocates hypodescent (the assigning of racial labels based on the parent of lower social status, regardless of the percentage of racial mix), was still very much in place when Barack Obama was born.

The ‘birther’ movement, a thinly veiled form of racism posing as concern over Obama’s citizenship, shows that this type of discrimination still exists.

Perhaps the ongoing debates about race in America will be eclipsed by President Obama’s character, vision and actions – in other words, his humanity. For this, he should be known not as the first black president, or as the first mixed-race president, but as the country’s first postrace president.

The term ‘Oreo’ has been used pejoratively to describe African-Americans with mainstream white social and cultural values – black on the outside, white on the inside. A New York Times columnist wrote this about Obama’s identity: “he was raised white. He chose black.” 1

Milton Glaser American, b. 1929 CrackPot Party 2011 Giclee Print 17 x 22 in.

Alicia Yin Cheng American, b. 1970 Sarah Gephart American, b. 1970 A Year in Iraq 2009, 2010, 2011 Vector Illustration 12 x 22 in. ea.

This exhibition is supported in part by generous contributions from Graphiculture and Spunk Design Machine, and media sponsor Radio K. 5

EXHIBITIONS HGA

Pickard Chilton

Designing Relationships

PICKARD CHILTON—DESIGNING RELATIONSHIPS SEPTEMBER 22–OCTOBER 21, 2012 Jon Pickard, Bill Chilton, and Anthony Markese have led the design of some of the world’s most widelyknown buildings.

The firm of Pickard Chilton believes that architecture can affirm a society’s best aspirations.

Funding for the exhibition provided by the Rapson Hall Exhibitions Fund with support from Judy Dayton, Goldstein Museum of Design, and the College of Design.

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GOLDSTEIN MUSEUM OF DESIGN

Balthazar Korab Photographer CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE—ITALY THROUGH THE LENS OF BALTHAZAR KORAB OCTOBER 27–DECEMBER 16, 2012 BOOK SIGNING AND RECEPTION OCTOBER 29, 6–8 PM, HGA GALLERY

The various portfolios of Balthazar Korab assembled for this exhibition bear witness to scenes of raw beauty, everyday urbanism, and the robust monumentality that together compose cultural and physical landscapes.

Additionally, the portfolios presented in the show demonstrate many of the sensibilities and tendencies that Korab developed and nurtured during his tenure in Italy that influenced his professional practice as a commissioned photographer of architecture.

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Funding for the exhibition provided by the Rapson Hall Exhibitions Fund with support from Judy Dayton, Goldstein Museum of Design, and the College of Design.

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FASHION FROM DIOR’S NEW LOOK TO BABY BOOMERS GROWING UP

1960-1965 1. Cocktail Dress 1950-1960 Gift of Mrs. Maurice M. Melamed

2. Three-Piece Wool Suit Pauline Trigere 1960-1969 Gift of Audrae and Martin Distler

3. Screen Print on Cotton, “Melooni” Marimekko 1962 Gift of Helen Bentley

4. Three-Piece Wool Suit Norman Norell 1960-1969 Gift of Mrs. Sidney Goodman

5. Three-Piece Wool Suit Jean Louis 1965-1975 Gift of Betty Leonard

6. Bent Wire Chair Warren Platner 1965 Gift of Design, Housing, and Apparel

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GOLDSTEIN MUSEUM OF DESIGN

COLLECTION

Women’s fashions during the “Mad Men” era of 1960–1965 included a diverse range of looks that began with a whiff of the 1950s and ended with an acknowledgment that youth culture would dominate the late 1960s and the 1970s.

The decade of the 1960s opened with styles emanating from the 1950s New Look in its later evolution: softly nipped-in waists, lengths at just below the knee for day and that length or floor-length for evening, and an eased silhouette that acknowledged but did not exaggerate feminine curves. A cocktail dress from the early 60s could be mistaken for a late 1950s design. (Photo 1) Jacqueline Kennedy, America’s First Lady, was a huge influence on fashion. The designs of Mrs. Kennedy’s favorite designers, including Oleg Cassini and several French designers, were copied and made available at all price levels. Her look was elegant, lady-like, and for evening, stunning but still refined. The “Jackie Kennedy Look” often consisted of a three-piece suit or simple dress that skimmed the body with a straight or princess line. (Photo 2) As the decade advanced, skirts got shorter and the waist became less defined or moved up at least slightly. Colors were bright; red and red-orange became immensely popular not only in apparel, but also in textiles and home furnishings. (Photo 3)

The slightly higher waist was often accented by a wide belt or wide bow. (Photo 4) Bows were ubiquitous and could appear nestled in a teased hairdo, as ties at the top of a blouse, as a faux tie at the bodice of a cocktail dress, or to accent a pair of pumps. (Photo 5) The “little black dress,” which was popularized by Coco Chanel in the 1950s was a fashion staple through the 1960s and simply changed shape and length to keep up with fashion trends.

The little black dress had its parallel in home furnishings, where black was the new…black ! The trend for black in home furnishings was big in the 1950s and continued in popularity in the 1960s. (Photo 6) Hats were not abandoned until the 1970s but were less widely worn in the 1960s than in the 1950s. Hats often gave a splash of color to an ensemble. (Photo 7). Popular colors were bright blue, yellow, red, hot pink, and black. Speaking of accessories, in the early 1960s, heels were often curvy and moderately low to very low. (Photo 8) By 1965, America was responding to a multitude of influences from Great Britain. Along with British music, America adopted as its own the mini skirt (which was only a few inches above the knee). American designers embraced the new, looser silhouette and shorter length and led fashion into the late 1960s and 1970s.

But that is a fashion story for another day. (Photo 9) —Kathleen Campbell, Ph.D and Jean McElvain, Ph.D

8. Black Fabric Shoes with Gold Trim 1960-1969 Anonymous Gift

7. Fur Hat 1964 Gift of Lois K. Gibson

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9. Wool Dress with Black Satin Band Geoffrey Beene 1960-1969 Gift of Barbara Sims

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GMD’S NEW BOARD MEMBERS We are excited to welcome seven new board members to GMD’s advisory board for fiscal year 2013. They each have unique and profound backgrounds within the design field and will be great assets to GMD in the year to come.

Stephanie Watson Zollinger, Ed.D., is currently Lindsay Piram has been an event designer an Associate Professor in the Interior Design and manager for over eight years. program at the University of Minnesota (shown with textile designer Jack Lenor Larsen).

Lang Hunt is co-founder and owner of Wharton Hunt International.

Not pictured: Kent Hensley is an accomplished senior creative director with 25 years of experience extending client brands into integrated design strategies.

Julia Williams Robinson, AIA, registered architect, U of M Architecture Professor.

Debra Herdman designs residential interiors in and around the Twin Cities.

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Christine Hartman is currently the General Manager of the Holly Hunt showroom in Minneapolis.

Look for more information about these new members of GMD’s advisory board on the website.

GOLDSTEIN MUSEUM OF DESIGN

DONORS SUMMER 2012

ADVISORY BOARD AND STAFF

New and Renewing Members

General Support

Advisory Board 2012-2013

Bradley Agee

Elizabeth Berin

Dianne Aisenbrey

Nancy & Richard Bryant

Officers

Dan Avchen

Kathleen & Paul Campbell

President-Elect Tim Quigley, Quigley Architects

Ann Brey

Catherine Sheehan

Secretary Connie Sommers, Community Volunteer

Caitlin Cohn

Lin Nelson-Mayson

Patricia Ewer

Jeanine & Oren Westling

President Dan Avchen, HGA Architects and Engineers

Board Members Bradley Agee, Department of Landscape Architecture, U of M

Miriam Fisher Robert Groger & Donna Weispfenning

Mad About Design Benefit

Rick Beckel, Ameriprise

Jeffrey Haddorff

BMW of Minnetonka

Julie Dasher, Julie Dasher Rugs

Kent Hensley

Kraus-Anderson Companies, Inc.

Christine Hartman, Holly Hunt

Debra Herdman

Holly Hunt Enterprises, Inc.

Kent Hensley, Hensley Creative/The Bernard Group

Kimberly & John Hogan

Linda & Phil Boelter

Debra Herdman, debra herdman design

Jane Schulzetenberg

Kathleen & Paul Campbell

Kim Hogan, Community Volunteer

Sandra J Johnson

Coldwell Banker Burnet Realty

Lang Hunt, Wharton Hunt International

Karen LaBat

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney

John Lassila, John Lassila & Associates John Ollmann, Signals

Michelle Mercer Paula & Vernon Michel

Media Sponsor

Lindsay Piram, Lindsay Piram Creative

Sheryl Newman

Artful Living

Julia Robinson, School of Architecture, U of M

Bryan Pohl

Radio K

Cheryl Watson, Graphiculture

Mark Schultz

TC METRO

Stephanie Zollinger, Department of Design, Housing and Apparel, U of M

John Schulz Barbara Taylor Anderson

Ex-Officio

Julia Wallace

Dean Tom Fisher, College of Design Brad Hokanson, Associate Dean for Research and Outreach

Director’s Fund

Lin Nelson-Mayson, Director

Sue Bartolutti

Staff Exhibition Suppport

Sharlene Balik.........................................................................Communications Assistant

Judy Dayton

Kathleen Campbell............................................................................................Grant Writer

Vanessa D. Dayton, M.D.

Jim Dozier.........................................................................Rapson Exhibition Coordinator

Howard & Janet Goltz

Eunice Haugen........................................Registrar & McNeal Exhibition Coordinator

Grand Hand Gallery

Barbara Lutz..................................................................................Administrative Assistant

Graphiculture

Jean McElvain........................................................................................... Assistant Curator

Spunk Design Machine

Lin Nelson-Mayson....................................................................................................Director

Summer Music Festival at Northrop

Rebekah Njaa.........................................................................................................Preparator Jeanne Schacht........................................................................................................Designer Natasha Thoreson..............................................................................Collection Assistant Kimberlee Whaley.......................................................................................... Photographer

Funding provided in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts

Funding for this project is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services

The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.

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Miniature Chairs, 1959-60 Verner Panton, made 1996-97 Given in thanks for past president Linda Mona

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Coat, 1950-1959 Seymour Fox Gift of Dr. Albert J.Greenberg

Bag, 1960-1969 Emilio Pucci Gift of Gloria Cherne Hogan

Dress, 1985 Stephen Sprouse Gift of Kim Koshiol

F.P.E. (Fantastic Plastic Elastic) Chair, 2002 Ron Arad, Designer Kartell Binasco Milano, Manufacturer Museum Purchase

Dress, 1983-1984 Stephen Sprouse Gift of Kim Koshiol