Lectures

Wedgwood’s Pearl White vs. China Glaze

Myth, Ritual, and Imagination in Ceramic Analysis

A River Runs Through It: A Regional Perspective on American Stoneware

America’s Ceramic Heritage: From Technology to Ideology

Rewriting American Ceramic History: John Bartlam’s Soft-Paste Porcelain, Cain Hoy & Charleston, South Carolina, 1765–1773

The Poor Potter of Yorktown: A Tribute to Dr. Norman F. Barka

British Shell-Edged Earthenware, 1775–1860

The People’s Pots of the Monongahela River Valley

Ceramics Collecting in the 21st Century

New Discoveries in Southern Earthenware

Picking Up the Pieces: Ceramic History and Archaeology

Rewriting Southern Ceramic History: The Broken Legacy of John Bartlam

The Secrets of the Potter’s Art

Playing with the Past: The Ceramic Works of Michelle Erickson

Josiah Wedgwood and Eighteenth-Century Agateware

Angels and Demons: The Pleasures of Pottery and Porcelain

The Birth of America’s Stoneware Age: William Rogers of Yorktown

Why Ceramics?

Stoneware of the American South

“My Wife Drinks Tea & I Will Have Punch”

Feats of Clay: Walking Through Southern Ceramic History

Anglo-American Ceramics as Social Medium

In Plain Sight: Rewriting America’s Eighteenth-Century Porcelain History

CHEAP AND CHEERFUL: The Earthenwares of Early New Orleans, 1780–1840

Southern Ceramic Stories: Magic, Myth, and Machismo

The Cherokee Clay: Tales of Alchemy, Magic, and Mystery

Cockles and Mussels: Shells and English Ceramic Design History

America’s Ceramic History Begins in the South

“We Live Among Riddles and Mysteries”

EUREKA! A Discovery of Eighteenth-Century True Porcelain in Philadelphia
and Other Tales of Ceramic Intrigue

The Myths and Magic of Wood Firing

A Peculiar Look at the Eighteenth-Century Ceramics of Drayton Hall

New Selections from the William C. and Susan S. Mariner Private Foundation

The Last Drop: Intoxicating Pottery, Past and Present

The Art, History, and Mystery of Richmond, Virginia, Stoneware

Do You Believe in Magic? The Ring Bottle of Dr. Peter Davis

Shades of Blue: XRF Analysis of a Wedgwood Portland Vase

Ten Ceramic Stories: From Wedgwood to Disney