Studio Potter: Funding Apprenticeships

by | Apr 17, 2020 | workshops

Interested in becoming an apprentice? Or have you considered taking on an apprentice? Curious about funding for sustaining or building your apprenticeship? Come hear the recipients of Studio Potter’s Grants for Apprenticeships Program talk about their experiences together in the inaugural year of this program. Jon McMillan will lead a dialogue touching on the highs, lows, complications, and nuances of this important and unique relationship in the ceramic art world. Viewers are invited to particpate in the chat during the talk and ask questions of panelists.

Click here to see the 2019 grant recipients. 

To join us, you will need the Zoom application on your computer, tablet or phone, and you will need a zoom account (making a zoom account is free and very quick!) Viewers will be able to see & hear our panelists, but will not have their video or audio enabled.
On Thursday, April 23rd at 7pm, click this link to join our zoom meeting:
Meeting ID: 991 0134 9960
Password: 301909

A recording of this discussion will be posted on our site. So, if you can’t make the live talk, you’ll still get a chance to watch. If you have questions or concerns, contact Jess Detweiler at [email protected].

 

technical tuesday: Archaeological Study of Medalta’s Kiln Room

by | Apr 14, 2020 | technical tuesday

In 2010, an Industrial Archaeologist named Talva Jacobson came to the Historic Clay District to complete an archaeological study of Medalta’s Kiln Room. We were reasonably sure that the foundations of at least three round kilns were under the concrete floor which was constructed sometime in the 1960’s. As Talva and her team excavated, they were indeed able to find kiln foundations as well as a wealth of other archaeological information which will aid in understanding the processes of industry in the early years of the twentieth century.

Want to see more and read more about this excavation? Check it out HERE.

Virtual Clay Real Time Online Class with Adrienne Spinozzi

by | Apr 13, 2020 | workshops

 

This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program.

Adrienne Spinozzi, Assistant Research Curator of American Decorative Arts in the American Wing, is currently engaged in research and exhibition development for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s upcoming show, Stories in Clay: Stoneware from Old Edgefield District, South Carolina (scheduled to open February 2022).

This exhibition will present new interpretations of Edgefield stoneware with a focus on the enslaved African Americans whose labor enabled this industry to prosper in the nineteenth-century American South. It will highlight a range of utilitarian forms produced and used throughout the region—from the large plantation storage jars bearing verses by enslaved potter and poet David Drake and the ubiquitous functional wares of everyday life to the face vessels that continue to fascinate and confound scholars and collectors alike. Adrienne will share some of the challenges and opportunities of the project including some of her research efforts and goals for the exhibition.

Tickets must be purchased by noon of the day of the event.

Please Note: All times are Eastern Standard. An email with login instructions will be sent to all participants prior to the event.

System Requirements: High speed Internet connection, internal or external computer speaker and internal or external computer mic. For PC: Windows 7 SP1, 8, 8.1, 10 or later For MAC: OS X 10.9, 10.10, 10.11 or later.

Register HERE.