The exhibition was funded in part by the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture and the County of San Diego Community Enhancement Program.
Featured were works from the Museum’s collection of contemporary American crafts by Laura Andreson, Harrison McIntosh, Beatrice Wood, Roy Leeper, Gaylord Hall, Benjamin Moore, Brett Hesser, Otto Natzler, Gail Reynolds Natzler, George Nakashima, Sam Maloof (including a Library Table and Benches, a recent acquisition), Bob Stocksdale, Helen Shirk (a recent acquisition), Jack Lenor Larsen, Eve Gulick, Joan Austin, JoAnn Tanzer and Henry Petzal. Included, also, were works by Niki de Saint Phalle, Wednesday’s Palace by Alice Hudson (recently acquired by a matching grant from the Harvey and Frances White Foundation and the contributions of 138 Museum members), and select French and German dolls.
Playing continuously was a Mingei International videotape narrated by John Darcy Noble: “A Palace for Wednesday."