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Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: "Crafting a Legacy: Contemporary American Crafts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art," featured a selection of objects from the Museum's contemporary collection and included ceramics, fiber, glass, furniture, wood, and metalwork. The pieces were created by both local and national artists suchs as Rudolf Staffel, Joyce Scott, and Michael Olszewski. The exhibition also commemorated twenty five years of collecting crafts at the PMA and also the role of The Women's Committee of the Museum. The...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: "Crafting a Legacy: Contemporary American Crafts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art," featured a selection of objects from the Museum's contemporary collection and included ceramics, fiber, glass, furniture, wood, and metalwork. The pieces were created by both local and national artists suchs as Rudolf Staffel, Joyce Scott, and Michael Olszewski. The exhibition also commemorated twenty five years of collecting crafts at the PMA and also the role of The Women's Committee of the Museum. The...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

"Contemporary Crafts from the Collection" was an exhibition of over 30 objects in the North Auditorium Gallery. The exhibition highlighted postwar and contemporary crafts from the United States and Japan. Featured were pieces by Wendell Castle, Viola Frey, Rudolf Staffel, and Olaf Skoogfors. The records consist of the exhibition labels.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The materials in this series are not yet organized within the collection, and the inventories will reflect that in-process nature. This series is composed of accession inventories. An accession is a group of materials deposited with an archives. In the interest of researcher access, the archives publishes inventories when possible.