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Chloe Buergenthal is a design historian and amateur ceramicist focusing on accessibility and engagement across curatorial and educational spaces. Recently graduated with an MA in History of Design and Curatorial Studies (with Distinction) at Parsons School of Design at The New School, they have held roles at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design, R & Company, The FLAG Art Foundation, the Design + Construction Department at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and the world famous dishware store Fishs Eddy. Their research engages with American arts and crafts, sloppy aesthetics, cuteness, and popular culture while exploring the power of the hand and purposeful deskilling in relation to capitalism, queerness, politics of care, embodied resistance, and the history of craft.

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