Just arrived at my house today…the 2025 issue of Americana Insights is remarkable! This is an incredible book! I’m honored to have been able to contribute an article to this important publication!
Here is a brief overview of the book: Americana Insights 2025 is the third volume in an annual series that presents the latest research and discoveries on traditional Americana, folk art, and material culture. In this volume the authors explore a beloved aspect of American folk art—Pennsylvania German redware. Focusing on redware’s production, use, and collecting in southeastern Pennsylvania from the mid-eighteenth to early twentieth century, the authors provide fresh insights into renowned potters such as Georg Hubener and Samuel Troxel as well as lesser-known figures. Other essays delve into the work of twentieth-century potters like Jacob Medinger, considered the last of the traditional Pennsylvania German potters, and Mildred Keyser, a pioneering revivalist potter. The authors also explore broader themes, including the use of political imagery and hunting iconography, and redware’s role in cultural exchange between Anglo-Americans and Pennsylvania Germans. A celebration of this vibrant folk art tradition and a vital scholarly contribution, Americana Insights 2025 represents the most comprehensive study of Pennsylvania German redware in more than a century.
Contributors: Johanna Brown, Laini Farrare, R. Erich Hess, Christopher Malone, Lisa Minardi, Karl Pass, Candace Perry, Jeffrey Pressman, Jean Renshaw, Justin Thomas, Adam Zayas.
Here is a link to Antiques And The Arts Weekly's review: https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/americana-insights-2025/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNd3RFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFqa2xCUkJvNGlRRmtkVUhYAR7XRJWMu1k2j-WExZgk6rJwyPN7a538GxuSIUD23DHS-HbpnQDxHJx3NQm2Gw_aem_Li0hqSZGrZnoKD5y0LkU_w.
Here is a link to purchase the book from the University of Pennsylvania Press: https://www.pennpress.org/9798
2025 Issue of Americana Insights
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