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Martha Joseph
Martha Joseph has been a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern Art since November 2014. In this position, she has worked on a variety of projects, including exhibits, the commissioning of new work, and performances. Prior to this, she worked as a Biennial Assistant at the Whitney Museum (2013-2014) and as a Curatorial fellow at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). She received her Masters degree in the History of Art from Williams College (2013) and Bachelors degrees in Art History and Vocal Performance from Oberlin College and Conservatory (2009).

Projects
Her Museum of Modern Art projects include:

Judson Dance TheaterThe Work Is Never Done (September 16, 2018-February 3, 2019)

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker: Work/Travail/Arbeid (March 29-April 2, 2017)

Maria Hassabi: PLASTIC (February 21-March 20, 2016)

Juliana Huxtable: There Are Certain Facts that Cannot Be Disputed, co-commissioned with Performa (November 13-14, 2015)

Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960–1980 (September 5, 2015-January 3, 2016)

Steffani Jemison: Promise Machine (June 25-28, 2015)

Projects 101: Rabih Mroué (April 21-22, 2015)

Publications
The Everyday Life of Simone Forti’s Dance Constructions

Elizabeth "Libby" Miller Payne
Elizabeth "Libby" Miller Payne (American, 1917-1997) was, for over fifty years, a ready-to-wear (RTW) fashion designer. She designed for moderately-priced fashion labels such as Bobbie Brooks, Jonathan Logan, and Dartford Deb. The "make-do" mentality of the Great Depression had a strong impact on her, and she used unconventional materials to accomplish her designs.

Payne was born in Havana, Cuba to missionary parents, who returned with their family to the United States in 1923. Like many women who sew, Payne learned how from her mother. Her talent manifested itself early, as she was creative with aspects of the clothes she and her mother made. She was inspired in her design work by movies such as Roberta (1935) starring Irene Dunn. Payne credited the actress for her desire to become a fashion designer.

Payne was willing to use any material that would be helpful in her design work. She used unconventional objects, such as acorns for buttons and curtains for a dress. When she began to design professionally, she would use deadstock, unusual combinations of items, or materials meant for trims, making it harder for others to copy her designs.

Payne kept extensive records of her work and life in notebooks that make it possible to understand her impact on fashion. Because her designs were not attributed to her by the companies that produced them, this documentation is invaluable. The four notebooks were donated by her daughter Penny to the Kent State University Museum in 2014. In addition, The Fashion Institute of Technology library contains the Libby Payne Collection, which includes sketches, press clippings, and printed advertisements documenting her work.

Origins
Several interrelated forces at work in Deerfield during the 19th century were important in the rise of the Deerfield Society of Arts & Crafts. Agriculture in the area was declining, which had an economic impact on the area. Following the Civil War, there were fewer male-led households because of the diminished population of men. This led to a loosening of traditional roles for women, and also meant that more women were able to inherit property along "the Street," Deerfield's main street filled with stately 18th century houses. Besides long-time residents of the town, middle and upper-class urban women began to buy and restore homes, some for summer use, along "the Street" in the 1880s and 1890s. By the beginning of the 20th century, about one third of the houses on "the Street" were owned by women. These houses had parlors which they converted into work spaces and salesrooms as they began to embrace the Arts & Crafts movement.

here followed the Deerfield Basket Makers and the Pocumtuck Basket Makers. Others worked on their own in a variety of areas: rug making, weaving, furniture production, art photography, metalwork, bookbinding, and ornamental iron work.

History
The women who came to Deerfield for the summer were important for much of the planning and marketing of the products. They lent their expertise for purposes of organization, product development, and marketing. Local women provided much of the labor needed to produce the items to sell, and relied upon the income to support themselves and relatives.

An article in a 1901 publication noted the difficulty of keeping promising young people in a rural town: "How can the young women who resent an idle life and are unreconciled of going into the mill or factory find at home something to do that is interesting and reasonably remunerative?" It indicated that Deerfield had solved the problem with a village industry that might serve as a model for other towns. The products, it suggested, would be of interest to those furnishing colonial houses.

The Society of Blue & White Needlework was the first Arts & Crafts organization founded in Deerfield, in 1896. In 1899, the Deerfield Society of Arts and Crafts was formed and the Deerfield Basket Makers was founded. Each group of crafts people in the town was represented by one member on the Society's Board of Directors. This society took on the responsibility for overseeing the annual exhibit and sale of works, which was extremely successful.

In 1906, the Society of Blue and White Needlework pulled out of the Deerfield Society of Arts and Crafts, which was then renamed the Society of Deerfield Industries. Group exhibitions were held every summer from 1899-1916. In 1917, World War 1 intervened, and an exhibition was not held. It was also not held in 1918, because Madeline Yale Wynne, the founder of the Society, had died. There was an exhibit in 1919, the 20th anniversary of the Society, but this was the last one for ten years. In 1941, the start of World War 2 meant the end of the Society.

Selected Member Artisans
Frances Stebbins Allen (1854 -1941) and Mary Electa Allen (1858 - 1941): Pictorial photographers who were among the first to join the Society

Gertrude Porter Ashley and Mildred Porter Ashley: Basket makers who published Raffia Basketry as a Fine Art in 1915

Augustus V. Tack (1870 - 1949): Portrait and landscape painter

Chauncey Thomas (1877 - 1950): Potter who worked in Deerfield from 1909-1911