Columbia, S.C. --- The South Carolina State Museum will host a program on Southern culture by the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA), located in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Saturday, Nov. 7.
In conjunction with the State Museum’s new exhibit “From the Pee Dee to the Savannah: Art and Material Culture from South Carolina’s Fall Line Region,” seven speakers will address needlework, furniture, silver, pottery, paintings and photographs produced or used along South Carolina’s Fall Line.
“This is the first time MESDA has taken its ‘Saturday Seminar’ series on the road,” said State Museum Chief Curator of History Fritz Hamer. “We’re delighted that we were selected to host this program series as it traveled for the first time.”
Selected topics and speakers include “Signatures in Silk: Refinement Amid Transition along the South Carolina Fall Line,” by Patricia Veasey, an independent scholar from Clover, S.C.; “'From the Cradle to the Grave': The Impact of New Jersey Cabinetmakers on Columbia, S.C., 1830- 1875," by John Sherrer, director of cultural resources at Historic Columbia Foundation; and “Your Silver Must Always Be Real,” by Rodger Stroup, former executive director at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.
Other topics include "Clay and Commerce: Ceramics Along the Fall Line," by Jill
Koverman, curator of collections at the McKissick Museum and Paul Matheny, chief curator of art at the South Carolina State Museum, and "Memory Makers: Fall Line Artists and Photographers, 1740- 1940," by Fritz Hamer, chief curator of history at the South Carolina State Museum and Alexis Thompson, director of historic house museums for Historic Columbia Foundation
Cost of the seminar is $55, which includes all sessions, seminar materials, and lunch. Space is limited. Pre-registration is required.
To register or receive a brochure please call 336-721-7360 or e-mail MESDAPrograms@oldsalem.org.
MESDA is solely dedicated to the preservation, scholarship and connoisseurship of southern decorative arts and material culture. The seminar is presented in cooperation with the State Museum, Historic Columbia Foundation, the McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina and the South Carolina Fall Line Consortium.
A circa-1850 pie safe from Marlboro County kept insects away from food for residents of the Fall Line, the region through the state from Cheraw to North Augusta where the rivers are no longer navigable from the Upstate. The South Carolina State Museum will present an all-day program on Southern culture from the Fall Line on Nov. 7. For registration information call 336-721-7360 or e-mail MESDAPrograms@oldsalem.org.
Photo courtesy S.C. State Museum.
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