Did you know…

…that Alfred University (actually more specifically through The Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art) has as an online resource the previous Dorothy Wilson Perkins Lectures? Yup, your free access to some incredible lectures given by some of the big names. Check it out:

2008
10th Annual Lecture:
“Making A Mess: Ceramic Sculpture Now”
2007
9th Annual Lecture:
“Once a Potter, Always a Potter”
2005
8th Annual Lecture:
“The Aesthetic of Process – and Beyond”
2004
7th Annual Lecture:
“Marginal Powers: Ceramics and the Art World”
2003
6h Annual Lecture:
“Crawling through Mud: Avant-garde Ceramics in Postwar Japan”
2002
5th Annual Lecture:
“Marguerite Wildenhain: Inspirational and Passionate About Her Craft”
2001
4th Annual Lecture:
“Social Complexity and the Historiography of Ceramic”
2000
3rd Annual Lecture:
“Ceramic Paradigms and Paradigms for Ceramics”
1999
2nd Annual Lecture:
“Faux and Real Folk Art: the Story of Mingei”
1998
1st Annual Lecture:
“Between a Toilet and a Hard Place: Is the Ceramic Avant Guard a Contradiction in Terms”

Visit the website here to read all of the lectures.