Arts and Skills Corps News Letter No. 2

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Everson Museum as part of A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes.

In 1945, Liebes wrote to Anna Wetherill Olmsted asking if she "could assemble a top-notch but small ceramic exhibit . . . to inspire the men." In response, Olmsted organized five "ceramic crates" curated by leading ceramists to travel to hospitals across the country. Ruth H. Randall, head of the Arts and Crafts department of Syracuse University in New York, designed traveling exhibit cases that worked as safe shipping containers for ceramics and, when unpacked, attractive exhibition furniture.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes.