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    The Potteries of Trenton Society
    The New Jersey Historical Society
    Announce

    Infrastructure: Making Pots in Trenton, 1775-1950

    Saturday, April 8, 2006
    9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
    The New Jersey Historical Society
    52 Park Place
    Newark, New Jersey

    The 3rd New Jersey Ceramics Symposium

    For a third year the Potteries of Trenton Society (POTS) will team with the New Jersey Historical Society (NJHS) to offer a day-long series of lectures on New Jersey’s ceramic industry. Infrastructure: Making Pots in Trenton, 1775-1950 will bring together historians, archaeologists and collectors. The program is open to the public.

    Program

    9:00-9:30 am

    Registration and Continental Breakfast
    9:30-10:00 pm Welcome and Opening Remarks
    10:00 am-12:30 pm

    Demonstration and Lectures with questions following each presentation:

    Mark Shapiro, Potter,
    Demonstration of wheel techniques

    Jean-Pierre Dion,
    The Potter's Craft in a Changing Environment, 1800-1920

    Richard Hunter
    Movers and Shapers: Trenton's Pottery People, ca. 1750-1950

    12:30-2:00 pm Lunch Break
    2:00-4:00 pm Lectures with questions following each presentation:

    Bill Liebeknecht
    All Fired Up: Kilns for all Occasions
    Rebecca White
    Cones & Rings & Props, Oh My!: Interpreting Trenton's Kiln Furniture

    Ellen Denker
    In the Clay and Over the Glaze: Decorating Trenton's Pots, 1750-1950

    4:00-4:30 pm

    Wine Reception

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    The symposium will be held on Saturday, April 8, 2006, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the New Jersey Historical Society, 52 Park Place, Newark. Advance registration will be $20 for members of POTS and NJHS or $25 for the general public; on-site registration will be $30. This includes all lectures, a continental breakfast in the morning, and wine reception at the end of the day. For further information and travel directions, visit the website of the New Jersey Historical Society or call POTS president Patricia Madrigal at 609-695-0122.

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