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Southern Pottery Symposium  
September 30, 2006
Birmingham Museum of Fine Arts



Introduction and Welcome by Gail Trechsel


Joey Brackner, Keynote Address:
“Recent Discoveries in Alabama Folk Pottery”

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More about Joey Brackner's book  Alabama Folk Pottery


Dr. John Burrison, Georgia State University, 
"What's Georgian about Georgia Folk Pottery?"


Sam Smith and Steve Rogers, 
“A Structure for Describing Tennessee
Potteries, 1790s to 1950”


Charles G. Zug, 
“Face Jugs and Alkaline Glazes: 
The Renewal of the Catawba Valley Pottery Tradition in North Carolina”


Archaeological Perspectives on 
New Southern Pottery Research



Bonnie Gums, University of South Alabama, 
"Pottery of Mobile’s Eastern Shore"


Gail King, Jacksonville State University, 
“Down in the Sherds: An Archaeologist’s View of Sterrett Potteries”


Mary Evelyn Starr, 
"Mississippi Folk Pottery"


Time for Questions and Answers

Panel Discussion of Traditional Potters moderated by Joey Brackner: 
Jerry Brown, Eric Miller, Allen Ham, Pettus Smith, Young and Joe Rutledge



Panel Discussion of Pottery Collectors moderated by Joey Brackner: 
Ron Countryman, John Hoar, Rick Messer, Scott Reynolds

   
   

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