Descriptive Entry

This accession documents the development, planning, and execution of exhibitions curated by the Textiles Department during the tenure of Matilda McQuaid, Curator, 2002- , and Susan Brown, Assistant Curator, c. 2001- . Exhibitions documented in this accession include Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance; Design Life Now: National Design Triennial; Solos: Tulou/Affordable Housing for China; Solos: Matali Crasset; Josef and Anni Albers: Designs for Living; Looking Forward/Looking Back: Recent Acquisitions in 20th- and 21st- Century Design; Quicktake: Doshi Levien for Moroso; Solos: SmartWrap; and Provoking Magic: Lighting of Ingo Maurer. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, proposals, label texts, checklists, marketing materials, committee meeting minutes, budgets, digital films, film permissions, publicity information, floor plans, research materials, textile samples, slides of textiles, essay texts, bibliographies, reports, image rights information, graphics, fundraising information, pamphlets, brochures, clippings, postcards, an exhibition catalogue, and related materials. Some materials are in electronic format.