San Francisco Ceramic Circle August 20th Meeting
"From Table Top to TV Tray"
The August meeting of the San Francisco Ceramic Circle will
be held on Thursday, 20th August beginning at 7.30pm in the Florence
Gould Theater at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln
Park, San Francisco. Entrance is from the West terrace. The lecture
will start at 8.00pm.
Our speaker will be Charles Venable, interim director and
chief curator of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas. His
lecture is entitled "From Table Top to TV Tray: China in
America 1880-1980".
The mini-exhibit will be Casual dinnerwares made in America
or for the American market. Set up is at 7.30pm
About the lecture:
Charles Venable brings a fascinating and amusing insight into
the changing social and artistic forces that shaped the styles
of chinawares used in America in the period from 1880 through
1980. This period saw major social changes provoked by the increasing
wealth and strength of the United States, two World Wars and Television.
His talk will focus on design, production, marketing and consumption
during the course of the century.
About our speaker:
Charles Venable is Interim Director and Chief Curator at the
Dallas Museum of Art. He joined the Museum in 1986 to organize
a department of European and American Decorative Arts and has
also founded the Friends of Decorative Arts and the Reves Decorative
Arts Lecture Series in Dallas. Dr. Venable is at home in all branches
of the decorative arts. He holds a BA from Rice, an MA from the
Winterthur program in Early American Culture and a Doctorate from
Boston University where his thesis was on the American silver
industry from 1840 to 1940. His recent work includes "American
Furniture in the Bybee Collection" which won him the Charles
F. Montgomery award for excellence in decorative arts scholarship
and his latest book "Silver in America: 1840-1940" won
him the Montgomery prize for best English language decorative
arts book. He is currently working on an Exhibition and book entitled"China
and Glass in America, 1880-1980: From Table Top to TV Tray"