Ima Hogg Ceramic Circle

A. Brandt Zipp will introduce Thomas W. Commeraw, one of the most well-known African-American craftsmen of his day. A stoneware potter working in the earliest decades of the new United States, he and his fellow New York City stoneware manufacturers were looked to as the gold standard of their craft, shipping large amounts of ware up and down the eastern seaboard.
Thomas W. Commeraw was completely forgotten by American society in the wake of his death. This presentation will tell Commeraw’s fascinating story from the perspective of the person who serendipitously rediscovered him in the twenty-first century and then brought his story back to life.