The Alfred Ceramic Art Museum will host the 20th Perkins Lecture of Ceramic History Tuesday, Sept. 16, at 4:30 p.m. in Nevins Theater.
This year’s speaker is art historian Margaret Carney, director of the International Museum of Dinnerware, in Kingston, NY Design, who will present a lecture “Binns@Alfred: n Degrees of Separation.” on the legacy of Charles Fergus Binns. Carney served as museum director at Alfred University from 1991 to 2001.
The Perkins Lecture is given in support of the current exhibition at ACAM, “History: A Legacy in Motion - Alfred Ceramic Art 1900 – 2025,” which presents the extraordinarily diverse practices of artists who held (or continue to hold) full-time teaching positions at the New York State College of Ceramics School of Art and Design since its creation in 1900.
The Alfred Ceramic Art Museum established the Dorothy Wilson Perkins Ceramic History Lecture Series in 1998, thanks to a generous endowment gift to the Museum by Dr. Lyle Perkins (BFA Alfred '39; MFA Alfred '47) in memory of his wife, Dr. Dorothy Wilson Perkins (BFA Alfred '39).
Dorothy Perkins taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she made the majority of her creative pottery and wrote articles for Ceramic Age and Ceramics Monthly. She produced pottery for exhibition in the U.S. and abroad and also taught for two consecutive summers at Alfred University.
