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Cranbrook Academy of Art Assistant to the President: Bob Yares Records
Collection
Identifier: 2012-06
Abstract
Higher education administrator Bob Yares (1944-2019) worked at Cranbrook Academy of Art from 1977 to 2009, first as assistant to Academy President Roy Slade, and later in other titles, always working with Academy personel, students and events.
The Bob Yares Records contain planning and communications papers related to events and other Academy initiatives. With degrees in art and education, Yares was staff liasion for the Academy students' Studio Council and a member of the Design Michigan...
Dates:
1970 - 2005
Cyllindrical Rotating Travelling Exhibition by Isaacs for Cranbrook
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_66_27_04
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-05
Email printouts; Knowledge Box at IIT, Cranbrook exhibit, undated
File — Box: 50, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Includes correspondence with art historian Victor Margolin, with Wilma Keppel about grid beam construction, an oral history project conducted by Leslie Coburn, and correspondence regarding exhibits, including the rebuilding of the Knowledge Box for the Learning Modern show in 2009 and its inclusion in the Hippie Modernism show in 2015. Presentation binders collect thematic or retrospective materials put together by Isaacs and curatorial partners to represent different aspects of his work for...
Dates:
undated
Kenneth Dale Isaacs Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2021-01
Abstract
A graduate and former head of the Design Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in the 1950s, Ken Isaacs was an American designer, author and educator best known for his portable, customizable Living Structures and Microhouses. He claimed his design philosophy was influenced more by anthropologists than by architects. Moving from place to place and working with commonly available building materials were experiences in Isaacs’ own childhood and capabilities that he prioritized in his designs....
Dates:
1900 - 2018; Majority of material found within 1945 - 2016
Living Structure in Proposed Ken Isaacs Exhibit
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_37_31_03
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-06
Notes; Knowledge Box in Learning Modern show, c 2009
File — Box: 49, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Includes correspondence with art historian Victor Margolin, with Wilma Keppel about grid beam construction, an oral history project conducted by Leslie Coburn, and correspondence regarding exhibits, including the rebuilding of the Knowledge Box for the Learning Modern show in 2009 and its inclusion in the Hippie Modernism show in 2015. Presentation binders collect thematic or retrospective materials put together by Isaacs and curatorial partners to represent different aspects of his work for...
Dates:
c 2009
"Traveling Exhibition," Label from Presentation Drawing
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_66_26_02
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-12
Triangular Rotating Travelling Exhibit by Isaacs for Cranbrook
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_66_27_03
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-05
Watching a Screen in Proposed Isaacs Exhibit
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_37_31_05
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-06
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