Symposia
The Potteries of Trenton Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study and preservation of Trenton's ceramic past. There is an annual symposium covering a topic relevant to Trenton's ceramic history.
April 2010
Saturday, April 17th, 2010
9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
New Jersey State Museum Auditorium
205 West State Street, Trenton, NJ
Staying Alive: The Hill-Fulper-Stangl Pottery
in a Changing Marketplace
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The Potteries of Trenton Society in partnership with the New Jersey State Museum and the Trenton Museum Society is pleased to present Staying Alive: The Hill-Fulper-Stangl Pottery in a Changing Marketplace. This program has been organized in conjunction with an exhibit at the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie Mansion, Utility & Artistry: Works of the Stangl and Fulper Potteries.
April 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
New Jersey State Museum Auditorium
205 West State Street, Trenton, NJ
Art Revealed by Industry: Painters, Sculptors and Designers Create Trenton’s Ceramics
Trenton’s ceramics – whether useful or ornamental – begin with aesthetic concepts generated by painters, sculptors, and designers. The 2009 ceramics symposium co-sponsored by the Potteries of Trenton Society and the New Jersey State Museum will examine the role of artists and designers in developing the wares produced in Trenton.
March 2008
» Blue Plate Specials: Trenton's Restaurant China
The Potteries of Trenton Society in partnership with the New Jersey State Museum and The Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, is pleased to announce a symposium on Saturday, March 8, entitled Blue Plate Specials: Trenton’s Restaurant China. The program has been organized in celebration of a significant gift of Trenton restaurant china to Ellarslie, currently featured in an exhibition.
April 2007
» New Jersey Terra Cotta
The Potteries of Trenton Society (POTS) is pleased to announce its association with the New Jersey State Museum in the development and presentation of our fourth symposium on New Jersey ceramics, New Jersey Terra Cotta: Building an Industry on Clay. This year's symposium will be held Saturday, April 21, 2007, in the State Museum's Auditorium at 205 West State Street, Trenton. Speakers will explore New Jersey's clay resources, terra cotta manufacturing in the state, and its use on buildings in New York City, Philadelphia, and Trenton.
April 2006
» Infrastructure: Making Pots in Trenton
The Potteries of Trenton Society will be holding its third annual spring symposium, Infrastructure: Making Pots in Trenton, 1775-1950, on April 8, 2006 at the New Jersey Historical Society.
Ever wonder how your Trenton pots were made? Or who made them? This is your opportunity to learn about clay-forming techniques, kilns and firing practices, glazes and decorating skills, and shop organization as practiced in Trenton, New Jersey, from the early days of William Rhodes' stoneware and John McCully's redware potteries to John Maddock's hotelware and Walter Lenox's fine china dinnerware in the twentieth century.
April 2005
» Filling America's Cupboards
The Potteries of Trenton Society will be holding its second annual spring symposium, Filling America's Cupboards: New Jersey's Nineteenth-Century Earthenwares, on April 9, 2005 at the New Jersey Historical Society.
The Potteries of Trenton Society and The New Jersey Historical Society will collaborate in bringing key scholars and collectors of domestic Rockingham and Trenton produced Majolica and yellow ware.
March 2004
» Stoneware Symposium
The first POTS Stoneware Symposium will be on March 6, 2004: Early Stoneware in New Jersey and New York: Origins of an American Industry. The Potteries of Trenton Society and The New Jersey Historical Society will collaborate in bringing key scholars and collectors of domestic stonewares together for the first time in many years. The day-long symposium will explore the genesis and early growth of the American stoneware industry in the Northeast—including New Jersey stoneware production in Cheesequake, the Kempel potters of Ringoes, the Richards stoneware pottery in Trenton, and stoneware potters in lower Manhattan.
The conference will be held at The New Jersey Historical Society, 52 Park Place, in downtown Newark, just one block from the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and easily accessible from Newark's Pennsylvania Railroad and Bus Station, the New Jersey Turnpike, or the Garden State Parkway. See the NJHS website for more information on traveling by public or private transportation: www.JerseyHistory.org.