McKissick Museum

Before freedom came : African-American life in the antebellum South : to accompany an exhibition organized by the Museum of the Confederacy by Edward D. C Campbell( Book )

5 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 1,250 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Essays by noted historians, folklorists, and archaeologists portray the broad contours and details of African American life under slavery, both on the plantation and in Southern cities. Color and black and white images abound

Grass roots : African origins of an American art by Dale Rosengarten( Book )

4 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 411 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art accompanies an exhibition of the same name produced by the Museum for African Art in New-York. The Museum is dedicated to increasing public understanding and appreciation of African art and culture and is recognized worldwide as the foremost organizer of exhibitions and publisher of books devoted to historical and contemporary African art. Since its founding in 1984, the Museum has produced over fifty acclaimed exhibitions and catalogues examining Africa's rich artistic and cultural heritage."--Jacket

Talking with the turners : conversations with Southern folk potters by Charles R Mack( Book )

7 editions published between 2005 and 2006 in English and held by 334 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This book is a folk pottery pilgrimage that finds a southern art form at a crossroads. Traveling the back roads of North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, Charles R. Mack spent the summer of 1981 talking with the potters who produced the face jugs, mugs, and plates that had skyrocketed in popularity in the late 1970s and collecting examples of their wares. He was, in effect, taking the pulse of a southern folkway on the brink of transition. With the benefit of a quarter century of hindsight, Mack has now gathered these interviews into Talking with the Turners, a single volume that documents the world of southern pottery as it shifted from the production of utilitarian wares to the aesthetic realm of folk art. In their own words the turners, most of whom are now deceased, explain what it means to be a potter, to be part of a profession that passes from generation to generation, to experiment with new designs while continuing to produce traditional forms of ceramics. Arranged thematically, the interviews emerge as an open dialogue among the participants -- the type of backroom shoptalk that collectors and scholars are rarely privileged to share. In addition to the centerpiece interviews -- many of which are also featured on an accompanying audio CD -- Mack includes numerous color and black-and-white photographs of the potters, their shops, and their wares. Mack's extensive commentary sets these particular potters in the context of the larger American ceramics tradition, explains pottery techniques, and summarizes recent changes in pottery making. - Publisher

A portion of the people : three hundred years of southern Jewish life( Book )

3 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 264 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In the year 1800, South Carolina was home to more Jews than any other place in North America. As old as the province of Carolina itself, the Jewish presence has been a vital but little-examined element in the growth of cities and towns, in the economy of slavery and post-slavery society, and in the creation of American Jewish religious identity. The record of a landmark exhibition that will change the way people think about Jewish history and American history, A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life presents a remarkable group of art and cultural objects and a provocative investigation of the characters and circumstances that produced them. The book and exhibition are the products of a seven-year collaboration by the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina, the McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina, and the College of Charleston

Jubilation! : African American celebrations in the Southeast( Book )

2 editions published in 1993 in English and held by 180 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

New ways for old jugs : tradition and innovation at the Jugtown Pottery by Douglas DeNatale( Book )

2 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 138 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Palmetto silver : riches of the South : a celebration of South Carolina silver( Book )

5 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 135 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

I made this jar-- : the life and works of the enslaved African-American potter, Dave by Dave( Book )

2 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 129 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Carolina folk : the cradle of a Southern tradition by George D Terry( Book )

1 edition published in 1985 in English and held by 101 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Crossroads of clay : the southern alkaline-glazed stoneware tradition( Book )

2 editions published in 1990 in English and held by 97 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Essays and a catalog from a McKissick Museum exhibition of a ceramic tradition that was developed in the early nineteenth century in the Edgefield District of South Carolina