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Speaker: Sheila Levrant de Bretteville

Ms. de Bretteville has designed numerous publications on art and culture, including The Photographs of Dorothy Norman and The Motown Album, as well as public art works: Biddy Mason: Time and Place, Omoide no Shotokyo in Los Angeles, Search: Literature in Flushing, New York, At the start...At long last... in New York City's Inwood "A" train station, and Path of Stars in New Haven. Her work in books, magazines, and newspapers includes the redesign of the Los Angeles Times, special issues of the Aspen Times, Everywoman, American Cinematographer, and Arts in Society. Her posters and fine press editions are in the special collections of the MoMA, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and numerous university and public libraries.

In 1971, at the California Institute of the Arts, she created the first women's design program and, in 1973, founded the Woman's Building and its Women's Graphic Center in LA. In 1981, she initiated and chaired the Department of Communication Design at Otis/Parsons. She is currently a professor and director of graduate studies in graphic design at Yale.

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