Karis Medina and Amy Jean Porter from the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation convene a reading group focused on the writings of Anni Albers. This event explores Anni Albers's legacy as a weaver, artist, and designer, as well as an educator, intellectual, and writer. Her texts remain as relevant today as when she wrote them eighty years ago. This reading group will approach and negotiate Albers’s legacy and philosophy while engaging with contemporary questions of technology and material resources, the relationship between art and craft, and the role of art education. We invite all participants to join us in reading aloud a selected text by Anni Albers and engaging in an open discussion.

The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation is a nonprofit organization devoted to preserving and promoting the enduring achievements of both Josef and Anni Albers. The Foundation conserves the Alberses’ art and archives and serves as an information resource for artists, scholars, students, and the general public. Anni Albers (1899–1994) was one of the foremost textile designers of the twentieth century. She pioneered new possibilities for textiles as architectural elements and functional objects, as well as contemplative works of art. In 1922, she enrolled in the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, a school that transformed modern design and emphasized the connection between artists, architects, and craftspeople. In 1933, after the closing of the Bauhaus, she and her husband Josef Albers were invited to the newly established Black Mountain College in North Carolina to develop the art program, which was central to the curriculum for all students. During their time at Black Mou.