Clay Connections: A Thousand-Mile Journey from South Carolina to Texas

This publication is based on papers delivered at the inaugural David B. Warren Symposium, American Culture and the Texas Experience, presented by Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Feb. 9-10, 2007. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, established the biennial David B. Warren Symposium, American Material Culture and the Texas Experience, to honor Bayou Bend\u27s founding director emeritus. This volume presents five papers from the inaugural symposium, placing the pre-1900 material culture of Texas, the lower South, and the Southwest within a national and international context. Volume

\u3cem\u3eMaking Faces: Southern Face Vessels from 1840–1990\u3c/em\u3e

This essay and photographs of works by many potters cover 150 years of this unusual Southern folk art form, and was a McKissick Museum exhibit catalog

\u3cem\u3eI Made This Jar: The Life and Works of the Enslaved African-American Potter, Dave\u3c/em\u3e

This is one of several educator\u27s guides which has been produced by McKissick Museum, The guides are based on, and were developed from, original McKissick exhibitions. This guide focuses on the contributions of the enslaved potter and poet, Dave, who labored in the pottery industry that flourished in the Edgefield district of South Carolina in the 1800s. Lesson plans address pottery making, written and oral traditions in poetry, and the economics of slavery in relation to antebellum craftwork. Also included are a teacher background and bibliography