Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America

Name: Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America
Start: 2018-09-28T10:00:00
End: 2018-09-28T17:00:00
Location: Milwaukee Art Museum

Jan. 06, 2019 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Milwaukee Art Museum 700 N. Art Museum Drive, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202

Apr. 16, 2018

10:20 a.m.

Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America explores the projects of over 40 designers who advocated for playfulness and whimsy within their creations for corporations, domestic interiors, and children. The exhibition presents play as a serious form of inspiration, experimentation, and problem solving. In midcentury America, such playful design occurred against the backdrop of a booming consumer market and as a counterbalance to Cold War–era anxiety. Furniture, toys, textiles, films, posters, ceramics are among the objects featured.

Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America is co-organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Denver Art Museum.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts

Open Tues–Sun, 10 AM–5 PM
Thurs until 8 PM (special events may affect these hours)
Burke Brise Soleil (the “wings”) opens at 10 a.m., flap at noon, and close when the Museum closes, as weather permits

Special Hours:

Memorial Day–Labor Day: Open Mon, 10 AM–5 PM

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LocationMilwaukee Art Museum 700 N. Art Museum Drive, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202

Event Type Museums & Tours, Visual Arts

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Phone 414-224-3200

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Date & Time Jan. 06, 2019 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Jan. 05, 2019 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Jan. 04, 2019 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Jan. 03, 2019 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Jan. 02, 2019 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.