Potteries of Trenton Society

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 visit the website of the New Jersey Historical Society.

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