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PIONEERING TOLEDO DESIGNERS IMPACT 20TH CENTURY DESIGN

The Alliance of Art and Industry: Toledo Designs for a Modern America will be on view at the Ohio Arts Council's Riffe Gallery August 8 - October 19, 2002. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, August 8, from 5-7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Curated by Davira S. Taragin, director of the Center for Glass and curator of Modern and Contemporary Glass at the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Designs explores the role Toledo's designers and workforce played in the development of modern industrial design in the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition shows how the ideas and products that resulted from the industrial design movement forever changed American life.

Toledo Designs  looks at the designers who worked for Toledo industrialists and reveals how leading designers used their involvement with Toledo companies to help define their new profession. The exhibition also examines the Midwestern design aesthetic that came out of Toledo - a moderate, restrained, functionalist approach which was above all concerned with the realities of everyday life. (con't page 4)