I’ve traveled to Birmingham Museum of Art thrice: first in 2017, then in 2019, and most recently in 2023. With each trip, I gather notes and take as many pictures as possible. This stuff accumulates in my computer as source material.

Over the years, I’ve tried to organize images and thoughts into a lecture. There have been three iterations of it:

In late 2017, it emerged as Our Wedgwood Moment: Ceramics, Technology, and Culture in the 21st Century, for RIT’s Liberty Hill lecture series.

 in 2018, it developed into Channeling Josiah Wedgwood. It was a story about Wedgwood’s influence on my studio practice. It launched at the New York State Ceramics and Glass Fair (NY, NY), and continued on to Project Art (Cummington MA) where it coincided with an exhibition of new work.

 It then split apart into mini-lectures during the Pandemic.

In 2022, it transformed once more into Josiah Wedgwood’s Legacy. It became the story of Wedgwood and RIT. It launched for the Alliance for Arts in Research Universities (A2RU), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and ultimately landed at Birmingham Museum during the 2023 Wedgwood International Seminar.

Here is a collection of my favorite images from my time in Birmingham.