HISTORICAL WORKSHOP AT EASTFIELD VILLAGE, NEW YORK STATE
 
THE BRITISH INFLUENCE ON AMERICAN CERAMICS
 
June 22nd - 25th 1998 (4 days)
 
This symposium will examine in depth the conditions for the establishment and
growth of the American ceramics industry, the social and economic challenges
and, above all, the potters and their wares through documentary and
archaeological evidence.
 
Speakers include:
 
Miranda Goodby - 'The English Emigrant Pooter's Society'
 
David Barker - 'The Evolution of the British Pottery Factory 1750 - 1850'
 
Rob Hunter & Michelle Erickson - 'The Poor Potter of Yorktown, Va., Southern
Pottery 1620 - 1850'
 
Stanley South - 'From John Bartlam to Rudolph Christ'
 
Susan Meyers - '"The Finer Kinds of Earthenware", from Baltimore to
Philadelphia'
 
Bob Genheimer - 'The Yellow and White Ware Potteries of Cincinnati, Northern
Kentucky and Louisville, 1830 - 1868'
 
Ellen Denker - 'The Bennington Potteries'
 
Amy Earls - 'The Wares of Ott & Brewer's Etruria Pottery in Trenton, N.J., 1863
- 1893'
 
Diana Stradling - 'The Potters of Jersey City 1828 - 1850'
 
 
Course fee $450.00
 
For registration form, details of this workshop and of other historical
workshops for 1998 please contact Eastfield Village, Box 539, Nassau, NY 12123.
Tel. (518) 766-2422.