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Lectures

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Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Lecture: “The Place Just Jumped: African American Visual Artists and the Blues and Jazz of Harlem”

By Dr. Alvia Wardlaw

6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, October 4

Jepson Center

The lecture is presented in collaboration with the Friends of African American Arts (FAAA), a member group of Telfair Museums, free of charge and is open to the public.

The lecture is sponsored by the Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation.
http://www.jacobandgwenlawrence.org/

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by George Calfas

6 p.m.
October 20

In conjunction with Beyond Utility: Pottery by Enslaved Hands, Telfair Museums will offer a lecture by George Calfas, a scholar at the forefront of research on Edgefield stoneware. Pottersville, located in present day Edgefield County South Carolina, is home to North America’s first alkaline glazed stoneware vessels.

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“Mourning Practices”

Owens Thomas House presents, In Memoriam: Death & Mourning in the Victorian Era, through out the month of October.

6-8 p.m.
Thursday, October 27

Jepson Center