CONVERSATIONS AND CONNECTIONS

about
“David Drake: Enslaved Potter and Poet”
When
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
12:30-1:30PM
Where
Hood Museum of Art
sponsor
Hood Museum of Art
Intended Audience(s)
Public
details
Michael Chaney, Professor of English, Dartmouth; Barbara J. MacAdam, Jonathan Little Cohen Curator of American Art, Hood Museum of Art; and Jenny Swanson, Director, Ceramics Studio, Dartmouth
This conversation offers multiple perspectives on the Hood Museum’s recently acquired early nineteenth-century jug by David Drake, or “Dave the Potter.” Drake was notable not only for his skillfully produced vessels but also for his poetry, which he sometimes inscribed on his vessels, though literacy in enslaved populations was illegal at that time.
For more information, contact:
Sharon Reed
Sharon.Reed@dartmouth.edu
603-646-2808
Permanent URL: https://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=57581