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First Daughter Barbara Bush to Join New York Museum Ronald Kessler First daughter Barbara Bush is expected to join Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum on the upper east side of New York in a position that will allow her to pursue her interest in architecture.
While nothing is definite, she and the museum, part of the Smithsonian, have been in talks that are expected to result in a staff position.
The museum bills itself as the only one in the nation devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. It was founded in 1897 by Amy, Eleanor, and Sarah Hewitt — granddaughters of industrialist Peter Cooper — as part of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. A branch of the Smithsonian since 1967, the museum is housed in the Andrew Carnegie Mansion on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
A graduate of Yale, Barbara is considered the artistic member of the Bush family. She designs and makes her own clothes. Both twins took art lessons for two years from Pamela Nelson, a Dallas artist who is a close friend of Laura Bush going back to high school in Midland, Texas.
Barbara spent much of last year helping children with AIDS in Capetown and Botswana. As her mother did, Jenna Bush has been teaching inner city children. She teaches at a charter school in Washington.
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