Modern and Contemporary American Craft: Jennie Hirsh in Conversation with Helen Williams Drutt English

In an effort to help maintain the health and safety of our community, we have canceled all remaining public events for Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Avant-garde and temporarily closed our galleries.

This includes: 

March 19: Modern and Contemporary American Craft: Jennie Hirsh in Conversation with Helen Williams Drutt English

March 26: Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde Panel Discussion: Women of the Avant-garde

March 28: Modern Architecture Walking Tour with William Whitaker, Curator of Penn's Architectural Archives

April 2: An Evening of Poetry with Professor Daisy Fried and 'Invisible City' Poetry Award Winners

 

For questions or concerns, email rwg@uarts.edu or call 215–717–6480.

For more information about this exhibit, visit: uarts.edu/invisiblecity.

 

Thursday, March 19, 2020 at 6 p.m.
Art Alliance at University of the Arts
251 S. 18th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Join us Thursday, March 19, 2020 as Invisible City Assistant Curator and MICA Professor Jennie Hirsh holds a conversation with world-renowned craft scholar and former gallerist Helen Williams Drutt English, revisiting her experiences as a pioneering champion of craft and a member of the Y Arts Council during this pivotal period in the city.

Invisible City Programming Series
Modern and Contemporary American Craft: Jennie Hirsh in Conversation with Helen Williams Drutt English

Jennie Hirsh is a Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore and the assistant curator of Invisible City. 

Helen Williams Drutt English is world renowned for her significant and continued commitment to the advancement and awareness of the Modern and Contemporary Craft Movement. As a celebrated author, lecturer, curatorial consultant, collector and former gallerist, her contributions have been vast, with scholarship and education being at the heart of all her endeavors.