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WSWDC
Programs
The WSWDC conducts six to seven
events annually and our calendar year runs from
September through August. WSWDC activities include:
- 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
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Josiah Wedgwood I (1730-1795)
The Father of All English Potters
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Some past lecturers
have included:
- Lynn Miller, Wedgwood Museum Trust
- Amanda Lange, Historic Deerfield
- Ronald Fuchs, Winterthur Museum
- Stuart Slavid, Skinner Inc.
- Anne Forschler-Tarrasche, Birmingham Museum of Art
- Peggy Kerner, Historian & Collector
- Lisa Ruggieri, Waterford Wedgwood USA
- Keith McLeod, Wedgwood International Seminar
- The Lord Wedgwood
- Diana Edwards, Ceramics Historian & Author
- Joyce Schwartz, Historian & Collector
- Nicholas Dawes, Majolica Specialist
- Margaret Burnham, Conservator
- Pat Halfpenny, Winterthur Museum
- Danforth Walker, Insurance Provider
- Linda Slothouber, Wedgwood Collector
- Jeffrey Milkins, Wedgwood Collector
- Edward Knowles, Wedgwood Collector
- Benedict Hastings, Appraiser & Russian Arts Specialist
- Muriel Polikoff, Wedgwood Specialist
- Michael Herman, Wedgwood Author
- Paul Lauer, Wedgwood Collector
- Nancy Ramage, Professor Ithaca College
- Margaret Carney, Blair Museum of Lithophanes
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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
- The Buten Wedgwood Collection
- Wedgwood Highlights at Skinner Auctions
- 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
- Conservation of Wedgwood
- Memoirs of a Half Century of Collecting
- Trials and Tribulations of a Wedgwood Auctioneer
- Dancing Hours
- 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
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Special Programs and Events
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The Annual Show, Tell & Ask Sessions
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The Annual Summer
Social & Sale
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Annual Silent Auction
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Appraisal Days
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Stump the Experts
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Wedgwood Floral Display & Contest
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Lord Wedgwood Tea at the British Embassy
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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.
You can take an
on-line tour of the exhibit.
- 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
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