AMERICAN
CERAMIC CIRCLE
2011 ACC Research Grant Award Announcements
The American Ceramic Circle has awarded Leslie Vander Meulen Canavan a grant in support of original research in the history of ceramics. Leslie will conduct research on the small, but important early twentieth-century pottery, the Van der Meulen & Wykstra Art Pottery Co. of Dunkirk, NY. The pottery was founded in 1905 by Leslie’s great uncle, Theake Van der Meulen, a Dutch immigrant, and his partner Gerrit Wykstra. Leslie’s research will focus on the history of the pottery and the identification of pieces produced there. She will also address the American Arts and Crafts fascination with the culture of the Low Countries at the turn of the twentieth century and the way in which the Delft-revival style was manifested in objects produced by the Van der Meulen & Wykstra Art Pottery Co.
The ACC awards up to $5,000 for expenses associated with the preparation of scholarly papers based on original research in the history of ceramics. Grant recipients are required to offer completed papers for publication in the American Ceramic Circle Journal and may be invited to speak at an annual ACC symposium. The next deadline for completed applications is April 1, 2012.
Previous grant recipients whose articles appear in a recent American Ceramic Circle Journal, (Volume XIV) are Charlotte Jacob-Hanson (“Further Findings on the Life and Career of Louis Victor Gerverot”); Jonathan Gray (“An American and an American Trader in Wales: Fresh Insights into the Cambrian Pottery, Swansea, 1789-1810”); Robert Doares and Barbara Wood (“Archival Diversity and the Pursuit of Haviland Porcelain History”); Laura Murphy (“Parian Ware and the Development of An American Identity”); and Marilee Boyd Meyer and Susan J. Montgomery (“Marblehead Pottery: Simplicity and Restraint”) Grant recipients whose articles will appear in the forthcoming Volume XV are Ron Fuchs and Jennifer Mass, “A Reexamination of Chinese Export Porcelain Decorated with the Signing of the Declaration of Independence”, and Anthony Stellacio, “Lithuanian Ceramics of the 20th Century.”
2010 ACC Research Grant Award Announcements
In 2010 the American Ceramic Circle selected two projects for awards. Grants were awarded to Robert Doares and Barbara Woods for research on the President Hayes White House dinner service made by Haviland Limoges in 1879; and Brenda Hornsby Heindl to complete a study of American pottery kilns along the east coast and their relationship to the production of stoneware between 1700 and 1850.
2009 ACC Research Grant Award Announcements
In 2009 the American Ceramic Circle awarded grants to three scholars conducting original research in the history of ceramics. Grants were awarded to Nicholas Panes for research on English West Country Pottery; Ross Ramsay for a study of steatite in English porcelain; and Nicholas Zumbulyadis for a look at children on eighteenth-century European porcelain.
2008 ACC Research Grant Award Announcements
The American Ceramic Circle has selected two projects for awards in support of original research in the history of ceramics. Grants were made to Ellen C. Huang of Danville, California for the topic China’s China: Jingdezhen Porcelain and the Production of Art in the 19th Century and to Susan Tunick and Jay Shockley of New York for Architectural Terra Cotta on a Philadelphia Church.
2007 ACC Research Grant Award Announcements
2006 ACC Research Grant Award Announcements
Grants were made to Ron Fuchs and Jennifer L. Mass of Winterthur Museum for technical aspects of Chinese export porcelain; to Evelyn B. Leong of New York for the career and works of Dora Lunn; and to Anthony Stellacio of Vilnius for the development of ceramics in Lithuania in the 20th century.