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In 1946 the textile industry in the United States was on an upward trajectory fueled by a combination of new technologies and post-World War II consumerism and promoted by museum curators, critics, and publishers. Anni Albers became a beneficiary of this intersection of commerce and art when, in 1949, New York's Museum of Modern Art presented a landmark exhibition of her recent work, organized by the museum's director of industrial design, Edgar Kaufmann jr., and installed by its architecture and design curator, architect Philip Johnson.

(1957)the journal of the Yale School of Architecture, confirmed Albers's authority among the first tier of writers on modern textiles and their role in contemporary architecture.

In 1948, as Anni Albers was weaving a new group of works for her MoMA exhibition, a young self-taught hobbyist, Gloria Finn, was learning to make hooked rugs in her home in Washington DC. Their paths would cross in 1954 by which time Finn had developed her hobby into a growing collaborative enterprise with contemporary artists, Albers among them. Presenter Brenda Danilowitz will examine the history, impact, and outcome of their collaboration.