• Scholarly lectures by world-renowned Wedgwood authorities
• Presentations by company representatives and antiques dealers
• Members’ interactive show & tell sessions
• Private sales, auctions, and appraisals
• Socials and floral contests
• Exhibitions and private home tours
• Field trips
• General business meetings and other special events

Josiah Wedgwood I (1730-1795)
The Father of All English Potters

Some past lecturers have included:

• Lynn Miller, Wedgwood Museum Trust
• Amanda Lange, Historic Deerfield
• Ronald Fuchs, Winterthur Museum
• Stuart Slavid, Skinner Inc.
• Anne Forschler-Tarrasch, Birmingham Museum of Art
• Peggy Kerner, Historian & Collector
• Lisa Ruggieri, Waterford Wedgwood USA
• Jeffrey Milkins, Collector
• Keith McLeod, Wedgwood International Seminar
• The Lord Wedgwood
• Diana Edwards, Ceramics Historian & Author
• Joyce Schwartz, Historian & Collector
• Nicholas Dawes, Majolica Specialist & Auctioneer
• Margaret Burnham, Conservator
• Pat Halfpenny, Winterthur Museum
• Jethro Hooper, Collector
• Danforth Walker, Collectibles Insurance Agency
• Linda Slothouber, Collector
• Suzanne Hood, Colonial Williamsburg
• Tricia Foley, Designer & Author
• Edward Knowles, Collector & Decorator
• Don Carpentier, Eastfield Village
• Marilyn McLennan, Collector
• Benedict Hastings, Appraiser & Russian Arts Specialist
• Muriel Polikoff, Specialist & Dealer
• Michael Herman, Author & Collector
• Paul Lauer, Collector
• Nancy Ramage, Professor Ithaca College
• Margaret Carney, Blair Museum of Lithophanes

Some of many interesting topics have included:

• The Portland Vase
• Fairyland Lustre
• Creamware Fit for Queens and Commoners
• Beautiful Rooms of Wedgwood
• What’s New from Waterford Wedgwood
• The Beeson Wedgwood Collection
• Wedgwood's Uncelebrated Artists
• The Buten Wedgwood Collection
• Wedgwood Highlights at Skinner Auctions
• The Two Josiahs: Wedgwood & Spode
• English Pottery and the Classic Revival
• Wedgwood Prestige and Tea Wares
• Journey to England and Wedgwood World
• Giant Wedgwood
• What's Hot - What's Not
• The Art of the Wedgwood Table
• Wedgwood References Are Not Bible
• Rescuing Ceramic Moulds and Tools
• Conservation of Wedgwood
• Memoirs of a Half Century of Collecting
• Trials and Tribulations of a Wedgwood Auctioneer
• Dancing Hours
• Ceramics at Colonial Williamsburg
• Wedgwood & Other Victorian Majolica
• Bert Bentley's Works
• Insuring Your Wedgwood
• Lithophanes
• Wedgwood and Jane Austen
• Lady Beauclerk
• A Guide to Wedgwood Jasper Ware
• Wedgwood and the Russian Connection
• Beyond Blue & White
• Bodies & Glazes in the Oven
• Wedgwood in Canada
• Wedgwood's Top 50 Greatest Hits
• Wedgwood's 20th Century Artists

• Annual Show, Tell & Ask Session
• Annual Summer Social & Sale
• Annual Silent Auction
• Appraisal Days
• Stump the Experts
• Wedgwood Floral Display & Contest
• Lord Wedgwood Tea at the British Embassy

• In 2002, the WSWDC assembled a major six-week exhibition at the Gadsby’s Tavern Museum, entitled: Four Centuries of Wedgwood Diversity: Favorites from Capital Region Collectors.

• In 2009-2010, the WSWDC, the DAR Museum, and the Wedgwood company launched the five-month 'Wedgwood: 250 Years of Innovation and Artistry'  Exhibition in the nation's capital. Its catalogue is a 100-page, full-color publication featuring all the objects in the exhibit, essays by Robin Reilly and Gaye Blake Roberts, and more. To order, please post-mail your name, shipping address, phone number and email, along with a check for the appropriate amount - payable to WSWDC - to: Adele Barnett, 3505 Stringfellow Court, Fairfax, VA 22033-1502 USA. Offered now at a special post-exhibit price of $18 plus postage & packaging (add $4 US media mail; $8 Canada; $15 Europe, Australia, Japan). Purchases shipped outside the US only may be paid via PayPal.com to WedgwoodDC@gmail.com. Any questions, please email WSofWDC@aol.com