Artist Talk: Leigh Wishner on Dorothy Liebes' fashion and Hollywood connection
Saturday, October 14, 2023. from 10:30 -11:30 am
Celebrate the birthday of the legendary weaver and designer Dorothy Liebes with a talk about her fashions and connection to Hollywood given by Los Angeles design historian Leigh Wishner. Wishner is among the contributors to the recent monograph on Liebes, A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes, which was published in conjunction with the current exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
at Craft In America Center 8415 West Third Street Los Angeles, CA 90048 Parking is nearby at the Beverly Connection Shopping Center for $5.00
Leigh Wishner
Leigh Wishner is a design historian specializing in modern textiles and fashion. She has worked in the museum field for over twenty years, holding positions at the FIDM Museum at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Cora Ginsberg LLC. She received her B.A. in Art History and Archaeology from Barnard College, and her M.A. in Decorative Arts and Material Culture from Bard Graduate Center. Leigh has an unabashed passion for 20th-century textiles, fashion, and interiors, lecturing extensively on these intertwined subjects. Most recently, she contributed to “A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes” (2023, Yale University Press/Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum), the first major publication devoted to this pioneering, 20th-century American weaver.