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Grant
Awarded: November
2004
Type of Grant: Humanities Project Grant
Sponsor:
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University
Contact:
Susan Bandes, 517-353-9836, bandes@msu.edu
Award:
$15,000
Website: www.artmuseum.msu.edu
The
Kresge Art Museum and Pewabic Pottery will coordinate an exhibit
(to open on the MSU campus on October 23, 2005), tours, and lectures
to examine the place of Mary Stratton and her Detroit pottery.
This
gathering of over 100 examples of Pewabic Pottery is drawn from
the Pottery's collection as well as Michigan public and
private collections. The exhibition will place some of the
finest pieces produced at Pewabic within the Arts and Crafts
movement,
feature founder Mary Chase Stratton's early experiments with
China painting, explore the seminal influence of Charles Freer
on Stratton and the Pottery, especially the development of
iridescent glazes for which she became known. Celebrating
its 100th anniversary in 2003, Pewabic thrives today as
an educational
institution and the Midwest's only historic pottery. The critical
role that MSU played in Pewabic's history, owning it from 1966
until 1979, is little known but will be explored in the exhibition.
Funded
by grants from the Michigan Humanities Council, Michigan Council
for the Arts and Cultural Affairs
and the College of
Arts & Letters, MSU.
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