Emily Orr

“Introduction”

Emily Orr opens day 1 with introduction to Dreyfuss Symbol Sourcebook archives and the importance of the book and plays the 5 minute video.

Biography
Dr. Emily M. Orr is Associate Curator and Acting Head of Product Design and Decorative Arts at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Her exhibitions at Cooper Hewitt include Give Me a Sign: The Power of Symbols (opening 2023), Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer (2021-22),Botanical Expressions (2019-22), and Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s (2017). She has written essays on a range of design history topics and is the author of Designing the Department Store: Display and Retail at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Bloomsbury, 2019).