Art Agenda: Frederick & Eliot Noyes

lexlei — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:35:04 +0000

Interview with Frederick Noyes, son of architect and design pioneer Eliot Noyes, the first director of Industrial Design at the Museum of Modern Art.

Eliot Noyes is credited with changing the role of design and architecture in corporate America. He is the subject of a book by Gordon Bruce, who will be appearing with Frederick at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum on Sunday.

Interview excerpted from The Art Agenda. Originally broadcast on 88.1fm, WESU, Middletown on May 8, 2008.

Art Agenda: Andrew Blauvelt

lexlei — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:00:49 +0000

Walker Art Center design director Andrew Blauvelt discusses the art exhibition Some Assembly Required, which was was shown at the Walker Art Center as well as the Yale Center for Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut. This excerpt was broadcast January 9, 2007 on 88.1 WESUfm, Middletown. In it, Blauvelt discusses the prefab movement, the process of curating, and the importance of mission integrity to small organizations.

Andrew Blauvelt on designing marketing materials:
“If you’re a small organization and you know what your mission is, then that mission needs to be communicated at every level. You really don’t have the luxury of missing something. You only have so many shows, you only have so many communications vehicles that you use.”
… At the Walker, we’re interested in innovative art, you know, innovation contains risk. If you’re not willing to fail, then it’s not really innovative.”

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Art Agenda: Frederick & Eliot Noyes

Art Agenda: Andrew Blauvelt