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Annual Ceramics Conference Collaboration with MESDA

In partnership with Colonial Williamsburg, the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts is pleased to host the 2025 Southern Ceramics Forum: Making Connections, March 14-15, 2025 in Winston-Salem.

Optional pre-conference activities include several workshops. Join Johanna Brown, Chief Curator, for a Moravian Bottles workshop focused on press-molded figural bottles made in Salem between 1800 and 1850. Interested in hands-on learning? Tryyour own hand at making press-mold baking dishes and sampling traditionally made baked goods with Demmie Stewart, Old Salem’s potter. Moving our attention south, join us for a hands-on, small group Georgia stoneware workshop with Brandon Pratt of Cagle Auctions, focused on the migration of the form from Edgefield, South Carolina to Jug Tavern, Georgia.

Speakers include:

Ruthie Dibble (Peabody Essex Museum), Johanna Brown (Old Salem and MESDA), Kim Ellington (Ceramicist and Independent Scholar), Jeffrey Evans (Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates), Geoff Hughes (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), Rob Hunter (Formerly Ceramics in America),
Angelika Kuettner (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation), Senora Richardson Lynch (Ceramicist), Luke Pecoraro (Drayton Hall), Brandt Zipp (Crocker Farm).

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