Jacqueline Casey: American Modernist

Jacqueline Casey spent most of her career working as a staff designer in the communications department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her job was to promote on-campus events like exhibitions, concerts, and symposia with posters that would appear on bulletin boards on campus and around Cambridge. Her clients were other university departments. The budgets were often limited, and the deadlines were tight. Over three decades, self-taught and working largely on her own, Casey created a body of work that defined a uniquely American version of European modernism that stands today as a landmark of 20^th century design. Through over 40 posters, this exhibition celebrates her tremendous contribution to design history.

Graphic designer Michael Bierut graduated from the University of Cincinnati and worked for ten years with Massimo Vignelli before joining the New York office of the design consultancy Pentagram in 1990. His teaching appointments have included positions at the Yale School of Art and the Yale School of Management. He was the recipient of the AIGA Medal in 2006 and the Design Mind Award from the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in 2008.