Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina is the sort of exhibition one walks away from thinking about later. It’s my favorite kind of exhibition—small and focused; thought-provoking; lots of context; filled with aesthetically beautiful and profoundly powerful objects; and featuring a subject of which I have some knowledge and interest. Hear Me Now centers around the work of the once-enslaved potter Dave or David Drake, and the countless named and unnamed, enslaved men, women, and children who ran the pottery industry in and around Edgefield, South Carolina, prior to the end of the Civil War.
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