It was great to get down to New York City over the weekend to see the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new landmark exhibit, Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina. The exhibition was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
According to the MET, "Focusing on the work of African American potters in the 19th-century American South—in dialogue with contemporary artistic responses—the exhibition presents approximately 50 ceramic objects from Old Edgefield District, South Carolina, a center of stoneware production in the decades before the Civil War. Hear Me Now will include monumental storage jars by enslaved and literate potter and poet David Drake alongside rare examples of the region’s utilitarian wares, as well as enigmatic face vessels whose makers were unrecorded. Considered through the lens of current scholarship in the fields of history, literature, anthropology, material culture, diaspora, and African American studies, these 19th-century vessels testify to the lived experiences, artistic agency, and material knowledge of enslaved peoples."
Interestingly, there is a stoneware jug on display that is inscribed, “February 10, 1836,” and I believe that my niece Alexis and myself found a related jug a few years ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This jug was later published in an article I wrote for Antiques & Auction News in 2019, based on an exhibit at the University of South Carolina, titled, Thomas Chandler’s Pottery Production: McKissick Museum Of The University Of South Carolina Holds Innovative Exhibition.
Nevertheless, this is a short exhibit at the MET, which will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2023, where I suspect it will receive a lot of media attention. ***An exhibit catalog is also available.Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
Now on Display at the MET in New York City
Will be at the MFA, Boston in 2023
See Article for More Information
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
Now on Display at the MET in New York City
Will be at the MFA, Boston in 2023
See Article for More Information
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
Now on Display at the MET in New York City
Will be at the MFA, Boston in 2023
See Article for More Information
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
Now on Display at the MET in New York City
Will be at the MFA, Boston in 2023
See Article for More Information
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
Now on Display at the MET in New York City
Will be at the MFA, Boston in 2023
See Article for More Information
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
Now on Display at the MET in New York City
Will be at the MFA, Boston in 2023
See Article for More Information
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
Now on Display at the MET in New York City
Will be at the MFA, Boston in 2023
See Article for More Information
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
Now on Display at the MET in New York City
Will be at the MFA, Boston in 2023
See Article for More Information
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
Now on Display at the MET in New York City
Will be at the MFA, Boston in 2023
See Article for More Information
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
Now on Display at the MET in New York City
Will be at the MFA, Boston in 2023
See Article for More Information
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
Now on Display at the MET in New York City
Will be at the MFA, Boston in 2023
See Article for More Information
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
Now on Display at the MET in New York City
Will be at the MFA, Boston in 2023
See Article for More Information
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
Now on Display at the MET in New York City
Will be at the MFA, Boston in 2023
See Article for More Information
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
Now on Display at the MET in New York City
Will be at the MFA, Boston in 2023
See Article for More Information
An Exhibit Catalog also Accompanies the Exhibit
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
Now on Display at the MET in New York City
Will be at the MFA, Boston in 2023
See Article for More Information
Please Stay Tuned...Much More to Come....
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