Southern Stoneware Saturday Seminar to Feature the Authors of Three New Books

July 20, 2009

On September 19 the authors of three new books exploring the diversity of Southern Stoneware traditions will lecture at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts as part of MESDA’s Saturday Seminar series. 

Suzanne Findlen Hood, co-author of the soon to be released Stoneware in America and Associate Curator of Ceramics at Colonial Williamsburg will talk about Stoneware in the South.

Leonard Todd, critically acclaimed author of Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave will discuss his search for his family’s roots in South Carolina’s Edgefield District.  A search that lead him to the Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave.

Quincy Scarborough, author of the newly revised North Carolina Decorated Stoneware: The Webster School of Folk Potters as well as The Craven Family of Southern Folk Potters and Carolina Metalworkers: Coppersmiths, Pewterers, Tinsmiths, of North and South Carolina will talk about The Webster School of Folk Potters.

A book signing with all three authors – including the opportunity to reserve advance copies of Suzanne Findlen Hood’s groundbreaking Stoneware in America – will follow the lectures.

Registration – which includes all sessions, materials, and lunch with the authors – is $55. For more information, or to register, call 336-721-7360, or email MESDAPrograms@oldsalem.org. 

About MESDA's Saturday Seminars

MESDA’s Saturday Seminar series presents new insights in Southern Decorative Arts.  This fall’s series will explore Southern Stoneware on September 19 and examine the Mapping of the Early South on October 17.  The final Saturday Seminar will be “on the road” on November 7 at the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia, South Carolina for a look at The Decorative Arts of the South Carolina Fall Line in conjunction with the South Carolina State Museum, the Historic Columbia Foundation, the McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina, and the Fall Line Consortium.  Registration for each Saturday Seminar is $55; registration for two seminars is $100; registration for all three is $150.  For more information, or to register, call 336-721-7360, or email MESDAPrograms@oldsalem.org.

MESDA Saturday Seminars are made possible with the generous support of Brunk Auctions of Asheville, North Carolina.