Saturday, March 26, 2022, 2–3 p.m.
Majolica Mania Opening Lecture: Majolica in Baltimore and Beyond
Saturday, March 26, 2-3 p.m.
Location: Walters’ Graham Auditorium
Registration required. Limited capacity.
Discover the history of majolica in America, particularly in Baltimore, with Earl Martin, Associate Curator at Bard Graduate Center and a specialist in the history of design and decorative arts of the 19th and 20th centuries. Martin will trace the development and introduction of majolica in Britain around 1850 and touch on major English manufacturers, especially those which exported extensively to the United States starting in the late 1860s. The production of majolica in the U.S. beginning in the mid-1870s will be highlighted and the products and histories of two Baltimore firms, D. F. Haynes & Co.’s Chesapeake Pottery and Edward Bennett Pottery, will be explored in depth.
About the Guest Speaker:
Earl Martin is an Associate Curator at the Bard Graduate Center (BGC), and a specialist in the history of design and decorative arts of the 19th and 20th centuries. During his tenure at the BGC, he has curated Knoll Textiles, 1945-2010 (2011) and overseen numerous other exhibitions and publications, including Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margrieta van Varick (2009); Swedish Wooden Toys (2015); and John Lockwood Kipling: Arts & Crafts in the Punjab and London (2017). He is the BGC’s project director for Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915 and was one of the editors of the accompanying catalogue to which he contributed an essay titled “Beauty, Utility, Good Value: Majolica Made in Baltimore, Maryland.” Before coming to the BGC, he was a curatorial intern in the product design and decorative arts department of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, where he earned his MA in the program administered by Parsons School of Design, The New School.
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