Public relations, 1987-1996

The Hunt Manufacturing Co. has provided the Philadelphia Museum of Art with a series of grants since 1979 for the acquisition of contemporary works on paper. The first phase of acquisitions culminated in an exhibition of the works of forty-six artists in 1988. Innis Howe Shoemaker and Martha Chahroudi curated an exhibition of the works of thirty-five artists made and acquired between 1988 and 1995.