CANCELED: Wright Design Series

press release: The Monona Terrace community programs department is putting a temporary pause on its programming, and will cancel March 26 and April 23 Wright Design Lectures.

To protect vulnerable populations and prevent a community-wide spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) public health and county officials are canceling gatherings of 50 or more people and are also recommending that all nonessential gatherings be canceled.

Please stay healthy and we’ll stay in touch with future announcements about our programming.

Art Deco Chicago and the Real International Style Presented by Robert Bruegmann

Robert Bruegmann will argue that Chicago's greatest contribution to the history of global modernism has been obscured by histories that foreground European avant garde designers like the ones at the Bauhaus. In fact, where those designers only talked about changing the world through design, Chicago's companies and designers actually did make life easier and more aesthetically pleasing when they produced an entire series of design icons between the two world wars: buildings by Holabird & Root, tools and appliances from Sears, Bell telephones from Western Electric, bicycles from Schwinn, radios from Radio Flyer, mixmasters and toasters from Sunbeam.