There are four domains that overlap in this research: art,
education, technology, and industry. Concurrently, five
different storylines all converge in the 1952 Art X
demonstration. These storylines include the creation of visual
art department at the University of Georgia, the career of the
artist Lamar Dodd, the career of the designer George Nelson, the
career of designer Charles Eames, and the career of educator
Hoyt Sherman. The landscape of these stories includes the
cultural events of the United States between the 1940’s and
1970’s. George Nelson wrote an account of his “very personal
involvement with the very large problem of teaching in a
University” in an essay he titled, “The Georgia Experiment.” The
academic discussion of the Georgia Experiment often begins with
an event that occurred six years later, the 1959 National
Exhibit in Moscow. This cultural trade exhibition displayed the
methods of the Georgia Experiment on a world stage and used them
to inform a skeptical Russian audience. The designers