This Algerian pouring vessel was created and decorated in the tradition of the Kabyle-Berber culture, and it was intended for use in the traditional storage and serving of drinking liquids. Like other Algerian pottery, the vessel was hand-thrown in red terracotta clay and then decorated with colored mineral slips using brushes of goat hair set into wet clay … [Read more...] about Algerian Pouring Vessel: Researched, Conserved, and Reconstructed by Sabrina Osment
These two cylindrical, elaborately beaded forms used as keychain fobs are pieces that actually originate from the beaded handles made for Lakota prayer feathers. Prayer feathers are used in smudging ceremonies, which are often done during healing rituals. In this ceremony, a healer or religious specialist burns a smudge stick … [Read more...] about Beaded Keychain Fobs: Researched, Conserved, and Restored by Lindsey VanDieren
Dog Stack with Ibex and Frog was created by a local artist of the Ozarks, John Tygart. Educated in the Fine Arts at Crowder College and Missouri State University, Tygart went on to work at the Springfield Art Museum, teaching ceramics to members of the Springfield community. In 1987, he and his wife Jacqueline opened a sculpture and pottery studio in … [Read more...] about Dog Stack with Ibex and Frog: Researched, Conserved, and Restored by Whitney Mosley
This hand-thrown lid for a stoneware crockery vessel was excavated from Bonniebrook, the estate of American illustrator, cartoonist, artist, writer, and suffragette Rose O’Neill, who is best-known for her invention of the Kewpie doll character. Several years after O’Neill’s death in 1944, her house at Bonniebrook burned to the ground, and curious local people … [Read more...] about Hand-Thrown Lid: Researched, Conserved, and Reconstructed by Sabrina Osment
This large, hand-painted landscape screen is believed to have decorated the Riverside Inn in Ozark, Missouri. The Riverside Inn was an Ozark institution that stood on the Finely River from 1925 to 2009. The hotel and restaurant sold fried chicken and served as a well-known playhouse in the region. The owner of Riverside Inn, Howard Garrison, was an infamous but well-loved … [Read more...] about Maitland-Smith Landscape Painting: Researched, Conserved, and Restored by Abbey Waterworth