Event

A Conversation on Creativity: Balancing Legacy and Experimentation

Russel Wright was a prolific mid 20th century industrial designer whose experimental home, studio and woodland garden, Manitoga, is a deeply personal expression of creative living in harmony with nature.

Our guest speakers will discuss ways to honor cultural legacies while carrying forward the creative and experimental impulse that inspired them. How can we distill the essence of creativity from the past and re-envision it today?

JOIN US for a lively conversation about building upon a legacy of passionate experimentation.

Tuesday, November 11, 6pm

Knoll NYC Showroom, 1330 Avenue of the Americas, NYC

Please enter through the revolving door entrance at 1330 Avenue of the Americas at 54th Street (NOT Retail space). Guests will need to present ID before proceeding to second floor.

$20/free for Manitoga members

Julie Burstein, moderator, is a Peabody Award-winning radio producer, TED speaker, and best-selling author of Spark: How Creativity Works.

Donald Albrecht is a design curator, author and lecturer whose critical perspective has garnered awards and informed exhibitions and publications on creative minds from Eero Saarinen and Charles and Ray Eames to Dorothy Draper and Russel Wright.

Stephen Talasnik is a NYC based artist whose intricate hand-built structures are informed by his studio drawing practice and his residency and travels in the Far East. He will build a series of site-inspired floating structures in Manitoga's Quarry Pool as the 2015 Resident Artist.

Ann Wright, co-founder of Manitoga / The Russel Wright Design Center and daughter of Russel Wright, is a chef and author living in Garrison NY.