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The Session Propossal by WaART, co-sponsored by Decorative Arts Round Table
has been accepted by the Conference Committee!!! Below are the particulars
about the speakers and their topics. I hope to see many of you there!!
Susan Nurse
WaART Moderator
Session
ARLIS/NA Conference
Pittsburgh 2000
"Women Leaders in the Art Pottery Industry: Ohio and Beyond"
Sponsored by
Women & Arts Round Table
Moderator: Susan Nurse: Visual Resource Coordinator, Memorial Art Gallery
Rochester, NY
Co-Sponsor
Decorative Arts Round Table
Each annual conference brings with it unique opportunities to focus
attention on the local region in which the conference takes place. The
Pittsburgh/ Ohio Chapter region is rich in artistic topics.
In keeping with the Conference theme of "Links to the Past, Bridges to the
Future", the Women & the Arts Roundtable will present a session entitled
"Women Leaders in the Art Pottery Industry: Ohio and Beyond" The session
will focus attention on the often overlooked leadership contributions of
women in the Art Pottery field. Historically, the position that women in
the art pottery field occupied were simply china painters, or as the most,
decorators. The design, manufacture, and certainly the organization and
ownership of the potteries was always assumed to be male. This is far from
the case, as the speakers in the session will demonstrate.
It is also important to demonstrate that the beginnings of women's
leadership in the Art Pottery industry began in the Arts & Crafts Movement
of the 1870s but extended well into the 20th century. This roll of
leadership also extended into the western states, as the country expanded
its boundaries.
Speaker Mary Sayre Haverstock- Director- Ohio Artist Project, Oberlin, Ohio
The Fair Toilers:Cincinnati Women & the Art
Pottery Phenomenon 1876-1900"
Speaker- Joan Witt- East Liverpool, Ohio Historian
History of Women in the East Liverpool Pottery
Industry into the 20th c
Speaker- Lyn Korenic (ARLIS/NA member) UC Santa Barbara
"The Inspirational Susan Frackelton:
Milwaukee Ceramitist & Inventor"
Speaker- Mark Bassett, Ph.D., Author of Introducing Roseville
Pottery
"Edris Eckart-The Ceramic Sculpture of Cleveland's
WPA Project"
Contact person:
Susan Nurse
Visual Resource Curator
Memorial Art Gallery
500 University Ave.
Rochester, NY 14607
Phone- (716) 473-7720 x 3039
Fax (716) 473-6266
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