{"id":2925,"date":"2012-04-12T09:34:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T14:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2012-04-12T09:36:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T14:36:04","slug":"chipstone-foundation-opens-face-jugs-exhibition-on-april-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2012\/04\/chipstone-foundation-opens-face-jugs-exhibition-on-april-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Chipstone Foundation opens Face Jugs exhibition on April 26"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chipstone Foundation Opens Face Jugs: Art and Ritual in 19th-Century South Carolina<\/em><\/strong>
\nExhibition Returns a Voice to Objects that Have Long Stood Silent<\/em><\/p>\n

Milwaukee, Wis.<\/strong> \u2013 For the first time in nearly thirty years, Face Jugs: Art and Ritual in 19th-Century South Carolina<\/a><\/em> brings together a comprehensive collection of early Edgefield face vessels from leading institutions and collectors. On view at the Milwaukee Art Museum from April 26 through August 5, 2012, the exhibition examines the face jug as a wondrous, albeit complex, object.<\/p>\n

In the mid-nineteenth century, slaves in the Edgefield District of South Carolina began creating vessels with applied faces, a form now known as the face jug. The small vessel is turned stoneware with facial features\u2014wide eyes and bared teeth\u2014made of kaolin, a locally sourced clay. By the end of the century, African Americans were no longer producing face jugs. White potters appropriated the design, stopped using kaolin, and created similar objects mostly as whimsies. The vessels grew in popularity but had lost the symbolic power of their original form. Unfortunately, as time passed, the story mysteriously disappeared as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe exhibition celebrates the aesthetic power of these potent art forms,\u201d says Claudia Mooney, curator for the Chipstone Foundation<\/a>. \u201cIt explores the different lenses through which to consider the vessels and their uses and, perhaps more important, their cultural meanings within a community of Americans that lived within the most challenging of circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n

In light of new research, Face Jugs: Art and Ritual in 19th-Century South Carolina<\/em> present the vessels within a context that takes into account the realities of slavery in the Southern United States, exploring their use as coded objects carrying hidden meanings.<\/p>\n

\u201cFew early American artifacts are as visually powerful and thematically complex as the diminutive stoneware face vessels made in South Carolina during and right after the Civil War,\u201d says Jon Prown, director for the Chipstone Foundation. \u201cWoven into their fabric are stories of cultural movement, human survival, spiritualism, and technological prowess that resonate as much today as they did 150 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exhibition is curated by Claudia Mooney, assistant curator at the Chipstone Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u00a0ABOUT THE CHIPSTONE FOUNDATION<\/strong>
\nThe Chipstone Foundation is a decorative arts foundation whose mission is preserving and interpreting their collection, as well as stimulating research and education in the decorative arts.<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE MUSEUM<\/strong>
\nThe Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s far-reaching holdings include more than 25,000 works spanning antiquity to the present day. With a history dating back to 1888, the Museum houses a collection with strengths in 19th- and 20th-century American and European art, contemporary art, American decorative arts, and folk and self-taught art. The Museum includes the Santiago Calatrava-designed Quadracci Pavilion, named by Time magazine as \u201cBest Design of 2001.\u201d For more information, please visit www.mam.org.<\/p>\n

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Chipstone Foundation Opens Face Jugs: Art and Ritual in 19th-Century South Carolina Exhibition Returns a Voice to Objects that Have Long Stood Silent Milwaukee, Wis. \u2013 For the first time in nearly thirty years, Face Jugs: Art and Ritual in 19th-Century South Carolina brings together a comprehensive collection of early Edgefield face vessels from leading … Chipstone Foundation opens Face Jugs exhibition on April 26<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2927,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions\/2927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}