"America's Historic Kilns" Lecture

Join the Alexandria Archaeology Museum for a free illustrated lecture when independent scholar and functional potter Brenda Hornsby Heindl presents “America’s Historic Kilns: A Potter’s Perspective.”
Title:"America's Historic Kilns" Lecture
Date & Time:Saturday, January 28, 2012 • 10-11 a.m.
Location:Alexandria Archaeology Museum, 105 N. Union St. (Map This)
Suite #327
Event Details:The Alexandria Archaeology Museum is offering a free illustrated lecture about historic pottery kilns. Independent scholar and functional potter Brenda Hornsby Heindl of Liberty, N.C., will present “America’s Historic Kilns: A Potter’s Perspective.” A graduate of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture and a recipient of a research grant from the American Ceramic Circle, Heindl has been studying pre-1850 American salt-glaze and alkaline-glaze stoneware kilns and kiln furniture since 2010. The presentation will be on her initial research and findings from archaeological collections, comparative photographs of the kiln sites she has researched, as well as her observations as a potter on the operations of historic American kilns. She works primarily with salt-glazed stoneware, having trained in the Ceramics Apprenticeship Program at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky. Her studio, Liberty Stoneware, is an outlet for her research in historic ceramics and experimental archaeology. This lecture is sponsored by the Friends of Alexandria Archaeology (FOAA). Reservations are requested, and can be made by emailing archaeology@alexandriava.gov or calling 703.746.4399.
Kiln furnitures from Alexandria's Wilkes Street Pottery
Kiln furnitures from Alexandria's Wilkes Street Pottery
Contact Phone No.:703.746.4399
Fees:Free
Audience:Anyone may attend
Tags:Archaeology Museum, Arts, King Street, Lecture, Museums, Old & Historic Alexandria, Old Town, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Visual Arts, Waterfront


For event details visit http://www.alexandriava.gov/c/3139
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