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September Issue 2006
McKissick Museum in Columbia, SC, Features Pottery Turners in Exhibition
More than 50 pieces of pottery and audio recordings is bringing folk-pottery traditions of the Deep South alive for visitors to the University of South Carolina's McKissick Museum in Columbia, SC. The exhibit, Talking with the Turners: Southern Folk Pottery, draws from original research by USC art historian Dr. Charles R. Mack and McKissick Museum's extensive holdings. It will remain on display through Jan. 6, 2007.
A large selection of
pottery, including face jugs, crocks and jars that Mack collected
along his backroad travels in 1981 through the Carolinas, Kentucky,
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi will be featured, as well as
color photographs and audio recordings of interviews he conducted
with Southern potters.
Examples of pottery on display will reflect the different types
of clay and molding and glazing techniques used by Southern potters.
McKissick Museum will complement Mack's pottery and research with documentation from research conducted by the museum's folklife staff in 2006 and 2007 on the current work being done by traditional potters today in the South.
McKissick weaves Mack's
research with its own to tell the story of how the folk-pottery
traditions of the Deep South evolved, the shift from the production
of utilitarian wares to folk art, their growth in popularity during
the late 1970s among buyers and collectors and the expressive
pottery forms that continue today.
Mack, who has taught art history at USC since 1970, is a Louise
Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts and the William Joseph Todd
Professor of the Italian Renaissance. He is an expert on pottery
traditions, including those of Germany and the American South.
In addition to Talking with the Turners, Mack has written
books on the Italian Renaissance and Francis Lieber.
USC's McKissick Museum has one of the largest Southern folklife collections in the Southeast and nation. Its Southern pottery collection is impressive not only in terms of scope number of pieces and potters represented but in terms of supporting materials that document the pottery folk-art tradition.
For more information
check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Museum at
803/777-7251, or at (www.cas.sc.edu/MCKS/).
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