The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation is set to launch the second season of its award-winning audio documentary series New Angle: Voice. Debuting on March 8th to coincide with International Women’s Day, the first episode in the series will explore the story of Ray Eames (1912–1988), with future episodes exploring other influential female figures in design.

The introductory episode on Ray Eames will present a history of her contributions to the arts, architecture, graphic design, textile design, and furniture innovation. The narrative will also be informed by interviews with figures spanning art history, curation, design, the Eames Foundation, and the Library of Congress.

“Our original story about Ray Eames draws on new research of her years as a painter in New York, from archival footage and audio of her media appearances as well as interviews with Eames family members and employees of Eames Office, their design studio in Venice, California,” explained Cynthia Phifer Kracauer AIA, creative leader of the series and executive director of Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, announcing the new series.

Following the debut episode on Eames, new episodes in the 2023 series will focus on the lives of other influential female figures in design, including trailblazing African American architect Amaza Lee Meredith (1895–1984), concrete block inventor Anna Wagner Keichline (1889–1943), and the Wall Street Journal architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable (1921–2013).

Since its launch in 2022, the audio documentary series has accumulated tens of thousands of dedicated listeners and has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Graham Foundation. In the opening 2021–2022 season, figures profiled included Julia Morgan, Norma Merrick Sklarek, and Florence Knoll.