Professor Meghen Jones's Sept. 28 lecture, 'The Teabowl', tied to Alfred Ceramic Art Museum exhibition 'Path of the Teabowl'

Alfred University Associate Professor of Art History Meghen Jones will deliver the lecture “The Teabowl” from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 28 in Holmes Auditorium, Harder Hall. The lecture is tied to the current Alfred Ceramic Art Museum exhibition Path of the Teabowl, which opened Thursday and was guest-curated by Jones. “The Teabowl” also will be available for viewing on the Zoom platform.

Jones received her master’s degree in Ceramic Craft Design from Musashino Art University, in Tokyo, and her PhD in the History of Art and Architecture from Boston University. Her research centers on modern Japanese art, design, and the global flows of ceramics.

For the preparation of the Path of the Teabowl exhibition and its accompanying catalogue, she received a seven-month research grant from the Japan Foundation, sponsored by the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto.

Jones’s recent publications include Ceramics and Modernity in Japan, co-edited with Louise Allison Cort; "National Treasure Tea Bowls as Cultural Icons in Modern Japan," in The Construction and Dynamics of Cultural Icons, edited by Erica van Boven and Marieke Winkler; and “Hamada Shōji, Kitaōji Rosanjin and the Reception of Japanese Pottery in the Early Cold War United States,” in Design and Culture.