A celebration of the remarkable poem vessels of Dave the Potter David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, was born enslaved in Edgefield, South Carolina, at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Traveling Exhibit Schedule Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (September 8, 2022 - February 5, 2023) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (March 6, 2023 - July 9, 2023) University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor (August 26, 2023 - January 7, 2024) High Museum of Art, Atlanta (February 16, 2024 - May 12, 2024).
Drake\'s work is now so highly prized it will be the cornerstone of the Metropolitan Museum of Art\'s traveling exhibit of nineteenth century ceramic art from Edgefield that opens in September 2022.
The Life and Works of Enslaved African American Potter, Dave , and featuring more than eighty beautiful images and seven new essays, it presents the diverse perspectives of African American and American Studies\' scholars, archaeologists, artists, collectors, and historians.
Building on the 1998 national traveling exhibit catalog, I Made This Jar...
The Words and Wares of David Drake collects multifaceted scholarship about Drake and his craft.
Despite laws prohibiting enslaved people from learning to read or write, Drake was literate and signed some of his pots, not only with his name and a date, but with verse--making a powerful statement of resistance.
A celebration of the remarkable poem vessels of Dave the Potter David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, was born enslaved in Edgefield, South Carolina, at the turn of the nineteenth century
