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The Program in Public History of the Department of History presents, A Public Lecture by Barbara Fahs Charles Principal, Staples & Charles, Washington DC.

The name Eames is so synonymous with contemporary furniture that, though developed 60 or more years ago, most designs are still in production and continue to be immensely popular. Far less widely known are the exhibitions that the Office of Charles and Ray Eames produced from 1960 to 1976. Barbara Fahs Charles, who worked at the Eames Office on three of the major exhibitions, will discuss the breadth of the exhibition projects that the Eames Office created, how the Office approached the diversity of projects, and their long-term influences. Ms. Charles reflects on this subject not just from her four-year immersion at the Office of Charles and Ray Eames, but fifty years creating exhibitions nationally and internationally since then.

In a design career spanning a half-century, Barbara Fahs Charles’ many projects have included the Sixth Floor Museum (Dallas), the first World of Coca-Cola (Atlanta), the Styrian Armoury – Universalmuseum Joanneum (Graz, Austria), the gallery and other interpretive elements at Monticello, and the re-installation of the Detroit Institute of Arts, as well as numerous “permanent” and temporary exhibitions in institutions worldwide.

Join us, Wednesday, April 27, at 5:30 PM in the Integrated Learning Center, Room S240.