Word: hiestand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BEEN over a year since graphic designer Emily Hiestand was asked by Boston 200, a group involved in planning many of city's observances, to design what it has called one of its "theme exhibits": Boston Women The show's opening last week is, significantly, one of the first overt productions of the bicentennial. It is also her first major exhibit for the young and talented Ms. Hiestand...
...exhibit runs its first two weeks at Jordan Marsh, its sponsor, as part of a larger collection of happenings called "The American Woman: A Celebration of Her Past, Present, and Future." Ms. Hiestand's show is detachable from its multi-media surroundings at Jordan's and it's scheduled to appear for month-long periods at Boston area locations from The Women's City Club on Beacon Hill to the Boston YWCA and City Hall over the course of the coming year...
...Hiestand's exhibit loses some of its individual character in the midst of the related activities at the Jordan Marsh "Celebration." There is so much going on there that one wonders what the Jordan's planners intended the celebration's focus to be. Aside from the fact that women are the featured subject, a sense of integration in the whole of the proceedings is lacking. For the moment, the intriguing graphic display shares the stage with other acts, including the WBZ-TV (Channel 4) program. "Woman '75," hosted by Pat Mitchell, which will be broadcast live every weekday...
...literally many-sided, and it has to he described in terms of the overlapping considerations of its concept, content and design. It attempts to give a comprehensive yet necessarily selective presentation of salient aspects of women's historical growth and role transformation in Boston over the last two centuries. Hiestand has chosen to marshall portions of the vast body of information available to her into six separate groupings: "Dress," "Law," "Work," "Health," "Feminism" and "Education." Her writer-assistant, Marjorie Waters, with a team of three historians, sifted through the voluminous subject choosing those quotes, facts and observations which form...
...another, interacting with and deriving meaning from the different scenes which will surround it on its tour this year. It is in itself a tacit event in the movements it describes, a realization showcasing many women's achievements and exemplifying them personally in the work of its designer. For Hiestand has decisively lent her voice to answer the 18th century writer Judith Sargent Murray's question, "Is it reasonable that a candidate for immortality, for the joys of heaven, an intelligent being...should...be so degraded as to be allowed no other ideas than those which are suggested...