Ethan Lasser's guest appearances

Ethan Lasser

Tales of a Red Clay Rambler: A pottery and ceramic art podcast

Harvard Art Museums

Curious Objects

Friedrich Hayek

Kate Smith

Chris Barrett

Paul Becker

Kevin Brown

Sam Pollard

David Webb

Doris Salcedo

Harvey Cox

Jeffrey Wolf

Stuart Gordon

Jane Kamensky

Ann Braude

John O’Connor

John Singleton Copley

OwlTail

Potter Dave Drake

Dave Drake

In 1834 a law was passed in South Carolina that prohibited slaves from reading or writing. The punishment for transgressors? Fifty lashes. That same year, Dave Drake, an enslaved potter at work in Edgefield County inscribed his first poem on a large stoneware jug he'd made. In this episode of the podcast, Ethan Lasser, chair of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, tells Dave’s story and that of an 1857 storage jar that bears the epigrammatic lines: "I made this Jar for Cash-/ though its called lucre trash/ Dave.”

The Life and Labor of Enslaved Potter Dave Drake, with Ethan Lasser

Ethan Lasser, head of the Division of European and American Art and the Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. Curator of American Art, talks about "The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820" on view in the Harvard Art Museums from May 19 through December 31, 2017.http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-philosophy-chamber-conversations-1

Ethan Lasser, head of the Division of European and American Art and the Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. Curator of American Art, talks about "The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820" on view in the Harvard Art Museums from May 19 through December 31, 2017.<br><br><a href="http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-philosophy-chamber-conversations-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-philosophy-chamber-conversations-1</a>

Philosophy Chamber Conversations: Ethan Lasser on Art, Science, and Revolution

Ethan Lasser, head of the Division of European and American Art and the Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. Curator of American Art at the Harvard Art Museums, talks about "The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820" on view from May 19 through December 31, 2017.http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-philosophy-chamber-conversations

Ethan Lasser, head of the Division of European and American Art and the Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. Curator of American Art at the Harvard Art Museums, talks about "The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820" on view from May 19 through December 31, 2017.<br><br><a href="http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-philosophy-chamber-conversations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-philosophy-chamber-conversations</a>

Philosophy Chamber Conversations: Ethan Lasser on Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet