David Mack
Earth, Fire, and the Abolitionist: The Emancipation of Clay for Social Change

Ceramics in America 2023

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    Figure 1

    David Mack, Spring Hill, Florida, 2022. (Photo, Carver Mostardi.)

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    The power of pottery: a grandmother educates her grandchild about the legacy of Madame C. J.Walker at Baltimore’s Artscape Festival, Baltimore, Maryland, 2006. (Photo, David Mack.)

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    Figure 3

     Elijah McCoy, face pot, David Mack, Spring Hill, Florida, 2006. Stoneware. H. 24". (Photo, Carver Mostardi.)

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    Madam C. J. Walker, face pot, David Mack, Spring Hill, Florida, 2010. Stoneware. H. 25". (Photo, Carver Mostardi.)

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    George Washington Carver, face pot, David Mack, Spring Hill, Florida, 2012. Porcelain. H. 13 1/2". (Photo, Carver Mostardi.)

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    The Three Faces of Martin Luther King Jr., face pot, David Mack, Henderson, Nevada, 2004. Stoneware. H. 9Q 15/16”. (Photo, Carver Mostardi.)

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    Crispus Attucks, face pot, David Mack, Spring Hill, Florida, 2010. Stoneware. H. 13". (Photo, Carver Mostardi.)

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    Figure 8

    Harriet Tubman, face pot, David Mack, Spring Hill, Florida, 2006. Stoneware. H. 17". (Photo, courtesy of the author.)

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    Figure 9

    Sojourner Truth, face pot, David Mack, Spring Hill, Florida, 2011. Stoneware. H. 14". (Photo, Carver Mostardi.)

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     Phillis Wheatley, face pot, David Mack, Spring Hill, Florida, 2012. Stoneware. H. 14". (Photo, Carver Mostardi.)

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    David Mack and Luther T. Buie, Associate Dean, Pasco-Hernando State College, Sargent William Carney with Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, tile panel, David Mack, Tampa, Florida, 2019. Stoneware. 24 x 48"

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    Figure 12

    Frederick Douglass, face pot, David Mack, Spring Hill, Florida, 2008. Stoneware. H. 15". (Photo, Carver Mostardi.)

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    Figure 13

    Dave “The Slave Potter” Drake, face pot, third edition, David Mack, Spring Hill, Florida, 2014. Stoneware. H. 15". (Photo, Carver Mostardi.)

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    Figure 14

    Detail of the pot illustrated in fig. 13 (Photo, Carver Mostardi.) Inscribed on the pot: “I wonder where is all my relations / friendship to all – and every nation”

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    Figure 15

    Jar, attributed to Thomas Chandler, Baltimore, Maryland, 1827. Saltglazed stoneware. H. 12 1/2". (William C. and Susan S. Mariner Private Foundation; photo, Robert Hunter.) 

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    Jar, attributed to Marion Durham/Edgefield District, South Carolina, ca. 1840. Alkaline-glazed stoneware. H. 16 1/2". (Private collection; photo, Robert Hunter.) 

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    Making Vice President Kamala Harris and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Ketanji Brown Jackson, face pot, David Mack, Spring Hill, Florida, 2022. Stoneware. H. 12". (Photo, Linda Mack.)