Southern Stoneware - A MESDA Saturday Seminar
Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
September 19, 2009
10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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 [log in to unmask]
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 [log in to unmask] Or visit
http://www.MESDA.org.
MESDA Saturday Seminars are made possible with the generous support of Brunk
Auctions of Asheville, North Carolina.
Daniel K. Ackermann
Associate Curator
MESDA and The Old Salem Toy Museum Collections Old Salem Museums & Gardens
924 South Main Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27108
(Tel) 336-721-7372 (Fax) 336-721-7367
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www.MESDA.org
Escape the present. Visit Old Salem.
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