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october TUCSON MODERNISM WEEK OCTOBER 7 - 15 For tickets and information, please visit TucsonMod.com Vintage Trailer Show Saturday, October 14 & Sunday October 15, 9 - 2, $10 Rocket onto the open road with shiny, chic and mobile Vintage Trailers. This year is the fourth annual Vintage Trailer exhibition for Tucson Modernism Week. Peek inside one-of-a-kind, renovated travel trailers and tour their groovy interiors, modular custom built furniture and retro finishes. Trailer owners will be on hand to talk history, restoration and adventures on the open road. Over a dozen vintage trailers are taking up residence along Broadway Boulevard in the heart of the Sunshine Mile. FILM: Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future - with special guest Eric Saarinen. Sunday, October 15, 7 - 9pm. Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future explores the life and visionary work of Finnish-American modernist architectural giant Eero Saarinen (1910-1961). Best known for designing National Historic Landmarks such as St. Louis’ iconic Gateway Arch and the General Motors Technical Center (Warren, Mich.), Saarinen also designed New York’s TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Yale University’s Ingalls Rink and Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges, Virginia’s Dulles Airport, and modernist pedestal furniture like the Tulip chair. His sudden death at age 51 cut short one of the most influential careers in American architecture.
Mid-Century Modern Home Tour Sunday, October 15, 2017, 10 - 3, $30. Join Tucson Modernism Week for our Mid-Century Modern Home Tour of iconic properties by some of Tucson’s most celebrated architects and designers of the Mid-Century era featuring work by Judith Chafee, Arthur Brown and Juan Wørner Baz. Paint by Number: Accounting for Taste in the 1950s, William Lawrence Bird Saturday, October 14 Bird explores paint by number as a hobby and metaphor in midcentury America. The story ties together the artists and entrepreneurs who created the popular paint kits; the critics who reviled them; and the consumers who willingly filled them in and hung them in their homes. William Lawrence Bird is Curator Emeritus at the National Museum of American History – Smithsonian Institution. He received a B.A. in History from the University of Maryland (1973); M.A. in History from the University of Arizona (1975); and Ph.D. in History from Georgetown University (1985). He began his museum career while a graduate student at the University of Arizona, working part time at the Arizona Historical Society with a grant-in-aid funded by Emory and AnnEve Johnson. He is a former Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellow at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, University of Wisconsin – Madison. His work has appeared in Smithsonian; History Today; Technology & Culture; The Encyclopedia of Radio andTelevision; and American Art Review. His museum exhibits and books include Holidays on Display; Paint by Number: America’s Doll House; Souvenir Nation; and American Democracy. October 2017 | ZOCALOMAGAZINE.com 35