San Francisco Ceramic Circle
February 22nd, 2001 Meeting
"Crafting a Recovery: Clay in the Healing Process
at Arequipa and Marblehead Potteries"
an illustrated slide lecture by
Suzanne Baizerman
Imogene Gieling Curator of Crafts and Decorative Arts,
Oakland Museum of California
The February meeting of the San Francisco Ceramic Circle will
be held on Thursday, 22nd February in the Florence Gould Theater
at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, San Francisco.
Entrance is from the West terrace from 7.00pm. The lecture will
start at 7.15pm.
About the Lecture: This illustrated talk will discuss the
pottery of the Arts and Crafts period produced at the Marblehead
Pottery in Massachusetts and at the Arequipa Pottery at Fairfax
in Marin County, California. These widely separated potteries
had a common link in that they were founded as "therapeutic
craft" organizations and had commercially significant production.
Marblehead was started as part of a sanatorium for the "nervously
disturbed" and Arequipa for women recovering from tuberculosis.
Two important British ceramic artists of the Arts and Crafts period
working in America, Frederick Murten Rhead and Marc Louis Solon
were both associated with the Arequipa Pottery. An exhibit about
the Arequipa Pottery and its product is at the Oakland Museum
of California through April 29th, 2001
About the Speaker: Suzanne Baizerman has served as the Imogene
Gieling Curator of Crafts and Decorative Arts at the Oakland Museum
of California since 1997. Before joining the Oakland Museum Ms.
Baizerman was the director of the Goldstein Gallery, a design
museum at the University of Minnesota. She is curator for the
exhibition "Fired by Ideals: Arequipa Pottery and the Arts
and Crafts" now on display at the Oakland Museum of California
and is co-author of the book of the same title that accompanies
the exhibition.
Mini exhibit: Please bring examples of Arts and Crafts pottery
especially any examples of Arequipa or Marblehead pottery
Next meeting: Thursday, 15th March 2001. "A Passion for
Blue" by Colin Knight, President SFCC