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SUMMARY:Elevating the Potter's Art: James Carr & His New York City Pottery
DESCRIPTION:Display of James Carr\, a Father of the American Ceramics Industry\, at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial\n\n\n  \nMonday\, October 12\, 2020 \n6:00 PM – 7 PM EST on Zoom \nPost-Event Update: A video recording of this lecture can be found here.\nEnglish immigrant potter James Carr (1820–1904) operated a factory on Manhattan’s west side from 1855 to 1889. Like other American pottery manufacturers\, he struggled against great odds to make a variety of ware\, including parian and majolica\, that could compete with foreign goods. Determined to succeed\, he experimented with materials and processes\, hired leading modelers and decorators\, and collaborated with artists and sculptors. Regarded by early ceramics curator Edwin AtLee Barber as “one of the fathers of the American ceramics industry\,” Carr would be all but forgotten had he not taken pains to ensure his own legacy in ways that will seem familiar today: depicting popular themes and celebrities\, participating in important exhibitions\, placing key works in museum collections\, managing his own narrative and exit. \nDesign historian Caroline Hannah\, Ph.D.\, examines the life and work of this enterprising potter through the trail of little known extant ceramic works and lively autobiographical accounts. “The story of his life\,” as ceramics historian Jennie J. Young wrote in 1878\, “is the history of modern American pottery.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nReserve Your Tickets Here
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SUMMARY:Victorian Era through Contemporary Artists' Lenses
DESCRIPTION:A Conversation with Stephen Berkman and Stacy Renee Morrison about Photography\, Shimmel Zohar\, and Sylvia DeWolf Ostrander \nWednesday\, October 28\, 2020 \n6:00 PM – 7 PM EST on Zoom \n  \nAbout this Event \nPredicting the Past\, Zohar Studios: The Lost Years \nPredicting the Past takes us on a discursive journey through the nineteenth century into the world of Shimmel Zohar\, a Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe who came to America in the 1850s. Already an accomplished silhouette artist\, he became the proprietor of eponymous Zohar Studios\, a storied photographic establishment located on Pearl Street in the predominately Jewish Lower East Side of New York. Traveling through the portal of this enigmatic studio into the past\, we encounter a Balzacian cavalcade of characters\, both winsome and whimsical. This immersive panorama of personages includes phrenologists\, ventriloquists\, painters\, poets\, spiritualists\, artists\, bon vivants\, merchants\, luddites\, and many more\, each tableau composed like a single cinematic frame from a long forgotten nitrate film. Stephen Berkman resurrects this vanished world in a tribute to Zohar Studios\, working with the archaic glass plate process and photographing through period lenses\, still coated with dust of the nineteenth century. He seeks to reclaim the lost world of the mid-nineteenth century even as our own world seems to be disappearing all around us. \nThe Girl of My Dreams\, Sylvia DeWolf Ostrander.  \nIn 2002\, a small leather trunk containing the preserved keepsakes of a 19th woman was discarded on a sidewalk in Lower Manhattan. Thus began visual artist Stacy Renee Morrison’s self-proclaimed love affair with Sylvia DeWolf Ostrander (1841-1925). \nFor almost two decades\, Morrison has been on a quest to weave together Sylvia’s life in the 19th century and reimagine it in the world today through her photographs. Stacy Renee Morrison often forgets what century it is. As fate would have it\, she met her 19th century best friend in the form of a trunk abandoned on a New York City street. These two women who were born 133 years apart\, began a collaboration called The Girl of My Dreams. \nMorrison received a grant from the Rhode Island Council of the Humanities to research and make photographs about the trunk’s owner\, Sylvia DeWolf Ostrander. She has exhibited her photographs in New York City\, Rhode Island\, Philadelphia\, San Francisco\, Toronto\, Parma\, Cordoba\, Argentina and Jeouju\, South Korea. Her photographs have been published in Harper’s Magazine\, Dear Dave\, Feature Shoot\, Photography Quarterly\, and The Providence Journal. In 2020\, Morrison exhibited the contents of Sylvia’s trunk for the first time along with her work interpreting Sylvia’s life at the Merchant’s House Museum in Lower Manhattan. \nShe will speak about her research\, what she has uncovered about Sylvia’s life\, and how she photographs memories that are not her own in her project titled The Girl of My Dreams. \nReserve Your Tickets Here
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