Acknowledgements

The exhibition is the result of the work of the hands and minds of many. Students in the fall of 2017 museum class learned from the ground up to choose objects and write labels to create an exhibition. The class participants were: Adriana Nicole Barrios, Samuel Butcher, Alexandria Dunham, Ellen Faletti, Kerista Fiske, Bailey Green, Laura Margaret Grotian, Gloriann F. Langva, Jennifer Lien, Katie Liu, and Sarah Stankey.

In the spring of 2018, Faletti, Green, Grotjan, Langva, Lien, with the addition of Kendra Greendeer, wrote the catalog and arranged many of the educational events.

Glory Langva brought the artistry and basic technologies of molding in clay from an almost two centuries old abstraction to a reality by molding jugs and sharing that process in a video that ran in the exhibition. This work literally brought the jugs to life. We also offer thanks to the Gladstone Pottery Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, England for permission to use parts of their marvelous documentary of the people and processes of traditional factory pottery making in “The Last Bottle Oven Firing.”

The staff at the Chazen Museum of Art shared their expertise by teaching and doing. These included Ann Sinfield, Brett Stageman, Kate Wanberg, Candie Waterloo, and Jerl Richmond. Amy Gilman, as the new director of the museum, allowed us to push the edges a bit with programming and procedures.

Finally, this catalog would never have reached its completion, let alone with such sophistication, if not for the creativity, skill, and patience of Ellen Falleti.