The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will present the exhibition “Face Jugs: Art and Ritual in 19th-Century South Carolina” May 4 to July 7, 2013.
Dale Couch, GMOA’s curator of decorative arts and the in-house curator of the exhibition, said, “The persistence of African culture in the work of enslaved craftsmen is a strong statement of resistance and on human dignity.
As I've quickly skimmed the thousands of "face" vessels (coffee cups, mostly) in art festival booths, I never considered a deeper history for that medium.
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