Designing Like... Women Abstractionists, Feb/Mar 2023

Welcome to the latest installment of 'Design Like...' This month we are looking at three very different women who all made their mark as abstract painters: Agnes Pelton, Hilna af Klint, and Helen Frankenthaler. In this class we'll look at their wild and eclectic lives, their work, and the tricks and tropes they used in their work that gave it a distinct and unique flair. We want to pick the tricks, the language of colors, and the meanings out in class so that we can design like them for our rug making projects! The Artists:   Helen Frankenthaler will take us to stylish Manhattan in the 1950s where she elbowed her way into a men-only world of postwar art. Daughter of a Supreme Court judge, Helen pioneered the modernist movement in New York City and exhibited her work for six decades. Decades! Her work has appeared in endless (I hope) exhibits playing off the angle of her being not just a trailblazing female artist, but a Jewish artist. The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation she created in