The landmark 1969 exhibition Objects: USA left a lasting impact on the collector market for American studio craft and the trajectory of art and design in the United States. Traveling nationwide and throughout Europe, Objects: USA, was seen by about half a million people. This panel discussion will explore the legacy of this seminal show and current state of the collectible design market.
ABOUT THE PANELISTS
Meaghan Roddy is a Senior Vice President and Senior International Specialist in Design at Phillips Auction House, based in Los Angeles. She is the catalogue co-author and co-curator of the exhibition The Good Making of Good Things: Craft Horizons Magazine 1941-1979, which traveled from 2017 through 2019, and she is a newly elected member to the Board of Directors at the Center for Craft in Asheville, North Carolina.
Abby Bangser is the founder and creative director of Object & Thing, a reimagined art and design fair concept that brings together both disciplines through a focus on objects. She is former Artistic Director of Frieze Art Fairs for the Americas and Asia and the founding head of the Americas Foundation of the Serpentine Galleries. She has additionally worked for nonprofit arts institutions in both New York City and Los Angeles including Dia Art Foundation, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Evan Snyderman founded the gallery R 20th Century, now R & Company, with Zesty Meyers in 1997. R & Company has since established itself as one of the most prominent and groundbreaking design galleries in the world and has contributed to creating a renewed global interest in collectible design through the gallery’s research, exhibitions, and publications program. Snyderman received his BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1992, and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art in 1994.
Wava Carpenter is the incoming Curatorial Director for Design Miami. Since graduating with an MA in Design History from Parsons and Cooper-Hewitt, she has built an international reputation for curating design-focused cultural and commercial exhibitions, writing scholarly and popular texts, producing lectures and events, jurying and overseeing awards, and creating online and IRL platforms—all to uplift the global design community. In 2019, she teamed up with Design Miami's Editor-in-Chief Anna Carnick to found Anava Projects, an agency devoted to supporting and promoting design-for-good.