California Pottery: Beauty, Technology and the Economy
an illustrated slide lecture by
Bill Stern
Executive Director, Museum of California Design
The July meeting of the San Francisco Ceramic Circle will
be held on Thursday,12th July 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.
This is the second of two lectures arranged by the San Francisco
Ceramic Circle as an introduction to the exhibit "California
Pottery: from Missions to Modernism" running at the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art from July 20th through August 14th, 2001.
Garden City Pottery, San Jose. Flower Frogs, c. 1936
California pottery has been collected with
ever increasing enthusiasm for the past 20 years, but it is only
now being recognized as a significant contribution to American
design. This talk will explain how a confluence of aesthetics,
technical advances and economic circumstances conspired to bring
about a revolution in design.
About the Speaker:
Bill Stern is the executive director of the newly founded
Museum of California Design (www.mocad.org)
and is the curator of the exhibition "California Pottery:
from Missions to Modernism" at the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art from July 20 through August 14, 2001 and the author
of a book with the same title.
Mr. Stern's reporting on the decorative arts and urban landscape
have appeared in many Western newspapers and Magazines. His extensive
collection ofCalifornia pottery has been featured in the book
"Magnificent Obsession" published by Chronicle Books
and in Out Magazine and in the Los Angeles Times. He has lecture
at the University of Southern California, the Orange County Museum
of Art and elsewhere on this significant aspect of California's
contribution to American design.
Next meeting: Thursday, 16th August 2001. Subject to be announced
later.
