Folk Pottery for a Microwave Generation: Charting the Influence of the Folk Tradition on South Carolina Contemporary Ceramics

This documentary video will feature a historical overview of the development of the folk pottery tradition in South Carolina including historical uses of pottery, relevant pottery areas and families, the evolution of clay and glaze technology and the changes in the Stoneware market.

With an emphasis on material culture, this documentary video offers an ethnographic insight, as well as relevant technical data, into the pottery making process within the South Carolina folk tradition. It will provide the viewer an opportunity to understand the work of contemporary makers in context of the history that their work frequently references.

By juxtaposing the history of folk ceramics with images of contemporary ceramic artists presently working in South Carolina, this video strives to chart the influence that the state's history has on it's artists today while also demonstrating how these artists have embraced and reinvented the tradition of pottery making in South Carolina.

Intended audiences are:

· Folklorists, anthropologists and cultural historians.

· Craftspersons, specifically ceramic artists.

· Students of history and culture.

· Collectors of Southern folk pottery.

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