Our third Standing-Room Only Lecture will have Amelia Hugill-Fontanel driving in from the “Young Lion of the West” (aka Rochester, NY) to speak about a designer who’d climbed to the top of the profession by the mid-20th century—yet most of us don’t quite remember her. Is that because Cipe Pineles was a woman? She might have said so, after rising to become art director of Charm, Glamour, and Seventeen, but waiting for ten years to be allowed to join the Art Directors Club of New York. This talk will trace the extraordinary arc of Pineles’s career through images from her design archive at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Amelia Hugill-Fontanel is associate curator at the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology—a renowned library on printing history. She is an art historian and editor who contributes to publications about Cary Collection holdings, including those about graphic design, calligraphy, wood type, and typefounding. As manager of the technology collection, she is responsible for teaching and maintaining some twenty-three different presses and several hundred fonts of metal and wood type.
Tickets
Alas, tickets for this event are no longer available.*
Date and Time
Thursday, May 2 at 7pDoors open at 6p for mingling.
Place
Katherine Small Gallery
108 Beacon Street
Somerville, MA 02143 [map]
Standing-Room Only Lectures aim to present short talks about graphic design, typography, and collecting. The lectures are kept to about twenty minutes because—true to its name—the series takes place in our standing-room only gallery. So, wear comfortable shoes and bring a short attention span.
108 Beacon Street
Somerville, MA 02143 [map]
Standing-Room Only Lectures aim to present short talks about graphic design, typography, and collecting. The lectures are kept to about twenty minutes because—true to its name—the series takes place in our standing-room only gallery. So, wear comfortable shoes and bring a short attention span.
*We will be checking ticket reservations at the door. If you do not have your Eventbrite ticket with you, we can look you up by name. We will have a stand-by line at the door for this event. Five minutes before the event begins, we will open up the event to those in the stand-by line on a first-come, first-served basis. If you have reserved a ticket for this event, please note that it will guarantee your place until 6:55 pm on May 2. Five minutes before the event begins, we will open up the event to those in the stand-by line.