She was a textile designer, weaver and printer known for her vision of seeing and promoting fabrics as an art form. He was a printmaker, designer, photographer and color theorist best known for his abstract painting and the series Homage to the Square. They met and married while students at the Bauhaus school in Germany. They traveled extensively together and were both writers, passionate teachers, and pioneers of Twentieth Century modernism. They lived in New Haven, CT where he was the head of the Department of Design at Yale, lived out the rest of their lives there together and established a foundation that is very active in both outreach and education.Her wise words:
"Students worry about choosing their way. I tell them, 'you can go anywhere from anywhere.'"
His wise words:
"Easy - to know that diamonds--are precious,
good - to know that rubies--have depth,
but more - to see that pebbles--are miraculous."
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