Teaching
Tools: the Museum Collection at Alfred, featured
highlights from the diverse permanent collection of the Schein-Joseph
International Museum of Ceramic Art at Alfred. The ceramics gifted,
purchased, or bequeathed to Alfred become the hands-on teaching tools
of the faculty and the students alike. More than eighty objects from
the permanent collection were on display including selected pottery
of the Ancient Americas from the Krevolin Collection, highlights from
the Corsaw Collection of Functional American Ceramics, examples from
Alfred's unique M.F.A. Gloryhole Collection, tiles, sculpture, European
dinnerware from the Wesp Collection, examples of glass from the Silverman
Collection, ceramics created by visiting artists, Asian ceramics from
the Chow Collection (Chinese), and Fox Collection (Korean), Japanese
ceramics by Rosanjin, art pottery including pieces by George Ohr and
Van Briggle, ancient Roman and Byzantine lamps, early American earthenware
and stoneware, contemporary American ceramics, and technical ceramics.
While the focus of the permanent collection is targeted at American
studio pottery from 1900 to the present, the diverse collection of
historical, worldwide contemporary, and technical ceramics, places
the Alfred focus in perspective and in the appropriate context. Teaching
Tools is presented to illustrate the types of collections available
for the use of the Alfred ceramics faculty, who were featured in the
recent special exhibition, Alfred Teaches
Ceramics, 1900-1996.