Grant award announcement

2008 ACC Research Grant Award Announcements

This year the American Ceramic Circle selected two projects for awards in support of original research in the history of ceramics.
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. 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, 2009.

Previous grant recipients whose articles appear in the most 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.”
2007 ACC Research Grant Award Announcements

Last year ACC Grants were made to Donald G. Carpentier for research related to Saving the Early Technological Artifacts of the Spode Factory and to Robert Doares and Barbara Wood for their continued research in Limoges, Antebellum Production and Distribution of Haviland Brothers Porcelain.
2006 ACC Research Grant Award Announcements

In 2006 the American Ceramic Circle selected three projects for awards in support of original research in the history of ceramics.
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.
Grant Application (printable)

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