MESDA Saturday Seminar: Southern Stoneware
September 19, 2009
10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Spend a Saturday at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts exploring the diverse stoneware traditions of the early American South.
Topics and Speakers
“Stoneware in the South”
Suzanne Findlen Hood, Associate Curator, Ceramics, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Co-author: Stoneware in America, forthcoming, Fall 2009
“The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave”
Leonard Todd, Independent scholar, Edgefield, South Carolina; Author of Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave
“Recent Findings: The Webster School of Southern Potters”
Quincy Scarborough, Independent Scholar, Fayetteville, North Carolina; Author of The Webster School of Southern Folk Potters and Carolina Metalworkers: Coppersmiths, Pewterers, Tinsmiths of North Carolina and South Carolina.
Cost
$55 (Cost includes all sessions, seminar materials, and lunch)
Registration
Space is limited. Pre-registration is required to ensure a place. To register or receive a brochure please 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.
