Exhibition Member-Only
Photographing Frank Lloyd Wright: Member Reception and Panel
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
For Driehaus Museum and Frank Lloyd Wright Trust Members at the Prairie and Above levels Only: On the eve of the opening of Photographing Frank Lloyd Wright, we are celebrating with a two-part evening featuring an exhibition viewing and reception, and a conversation between guest curator David Hanks and Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation’s Jennifer Gray, Sarah Holian, Curator and Director of Interpretation at Frank Lloyd Wright Trust, Chicago, and architect Ken Tadashi Oshima, followed by a reception.
The evening begins at 5:00 pm with an exhibition viewing, followed by the conversation at 6:00 pm, and concluding with a reception from 7:00-8:00 pm.
The event is for Driehaus Museum members and Frank Lloyd Wright Trust members at the Prairie level and above. Members will receive a special invitation with a link to register. If you have not received your invitation and wish to register, email us at membership@driehausmuseum.org.
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Jennifer Gray is the Director of the Taliesin Institute at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and serves on the Board of Directors for the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy. She has taught at Columbia University, Cornell University, and The Museum of Modern Art and has curated several exhibitions on Wright. She studies modern architectural history, with an emphasis on how designers used architecture, cities, and landscapes to advance social and spatial justice at the turn of the 20th century. She also is interested in contemporary social practice, curatorial practice, the history of architecture exhibitions, and questions of critical heritage.
Sarah Holian is the Curator and Director of Interpretation at the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust, Chicago and a Lecturer at DePaul University who specializes in modern architecture and design. Holian earned graduate degrees in Art History from The University of Texas at Austin and The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
David A. Hanks has extensive experience in the museum field, including curatorial positions at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and since 1980 he has served as the Curator for Montreal’s Stewart Program Modern Design. Hanks has curated several exhibitions for the Driehaus Museum, including Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Richard H. Driehaus Collection (2013), and Hector Guimard: Art Nouveau to Modernism (2023).
Ken Tadashi Oshima is Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, where he teaches in the areas of trans-national architectural history, theory, representation, and design. He has also been a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and UCLA. Dr. Oshima’s publications include The Wright Imperial Hotel at 100: Frank Lloyd Wright and the World (Kajima, 2023), Architecturalized Asia (University of Hawai’i Press/Hong Kong University Press, 2013), a monograph on Arata Isozaki (Phaidon, 2009), and Constructing Kokusai Kenchiku: International Architecture in Interwar Japan (University of Washington Press, 2009).
Image courtesy Chicago History Museum