Most Recent: October 14, 2015
Bill Stern, executive director of the Museum of California Design, is an author and curator. His exhibitions include California Pottery: From Missions to Modernism -- at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Autry Museum in Los Angeles -- and Starring William Haines at Pacific Design Center and the Palm Springs Convention Center. He was Consulting Curator for LACMA’s exhibition California Design 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way and curator of California’s Designing Women 1896-1986 at the Autry National Center: and Frank Gehry: 40 Years of Product Design 1972 to 2012 at JF Chen@1135 in Los Angeles. Among his many publications are the books California Pottery: From Missions to Modernism and California’s Designing Women 1896-1986 and the essays “Edith Heath: Artist of the Everyday,” in the book Heath Ceramics: The Complexity of Simplicity, and the essay “War and Peace: Unexpected Dividends” in the catalog of California Design 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way. (Photo of Bill Stern by Peter Brenner.)