Women’s Work
Women's Voices in Art, Craft, Architecture, and Design

September 27 and 28

This September, the Raymond Farm is proud to host the Women’s Work Symposium and Tours. This program will be in collaboration with the American Institute of Architects Women in Architecture Committee of the LI Chapter and the Nakashima Woodworkers.

Over the last century, women have emerged as leaders in modern art and design. Initially, the contributions of women such as Lee Krasner, Ray Eames, Charlotte Perriand, Aino Aalto, and Noémi Pernessin Raymond were often overshadowed by their male partners or peers. Over the last 50 years, women have not only increasingly and individually contributed but are now leading the direction art and design should take. Since the feminist critiques of the 1990s, there has been a reassessment of Modern art and design history, and the contemporary discourse has widened beyond aesthetics and techniques to engage social, ethical, environmental, health, and gender and cultural identity justice issues. This symposium will offer a historical and contemporary perspective on women’s unique contributions to theoretical and artistic discourse.

Featured artists, designers, craftswomen, architects, and academics include Mira Nakashima, Miriam Carpenter, Farzana Gandhi, Victoria Vuono, Shilpa Mehta, Gülistan Kenanoğlu, and Frankie Alchanati.


Schedule

Day 1 : Women’s Work Symposium

9:00 am- 5pm

Light breakfast, lunch, and a reception

Presenters and Panelists

7:00 pm-9:00pm

Buffet Style Dinner after Symposium (Additional Registration Required)

Day 2 : Historic Tours of the Raymond Farm Center and Nakashima Woodworkers

10:00 am- 3:30pm

Lunch at the Raymond Farm Center included.

Explore the life and legacies of Antonin and Noémi Raymond and George Nakashima on a joint tour of the Raymond Farm Center for Living Arts and Design and the Nakashima Woodworkers.


2 0 2 5 S P E A K E R S

JOHN DeFAZIO, AIA



Women’s Work, an Introduction to the Symposium

John DeFazio is the executive director, and Charlotte Raymond is the co-director of the Raymond Farm Center. He is an architect, teacher, lecturer, and writer. Born in Brooklyn, John lives and practices architecture and planning in New York City. He is a New York Institute of Technology graduate where he teaches architectural Thesis studio. Professor DeFazio also teaches thesis in the study-abroad program (Japan, Netherlands, Barcelona) and architectural theories at Westphal College, Architecture, Interiors, and Urban Design, Drexel University, Philadelphia. He is a writer on art, architecture, and planning and has contributed to Art in America and Residential Design Magazine.


MIRA NAKASHIMA



George Nakashima and the Nakashima Woodworkers

Mira Nakashima-Yarnell is an architect and furniture maker. Mira Nakashima is the daugh­ter of Japan­ese-Amer­i­can wood­worker and archi­tect George Nakashima, and since 2004 has been Pres­i­dent and Creative Direc­tor of George Nakashima Wood­work­ers, who produce one-of-a-kind, hand-crafted, made-to-order furni­ture at their work­shop in New Hope, Penn­syl­va­nia. Mira was born in 1942 in Seattle, Wash­ing­ton, grad­u­ated cum laude from Harvard Univer­sity with an under­grad­u­ate degree in Archi­tec­tural Sciences and General Studies, and earned her master’s degree in Archi­tec­ture from Waseda University in Tokyo.