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DESCRIPTION:Gaye Blake-Roberts will be coming to speak at the Joan\nStacke 
 Graham Lecture on Tuesday\, May 7\, 2013.  Her talk is entitled “Wedgwood
 \nMajolica - A Response to Fashion.”\n\nGaye Blake-Roberts is Director of 
 the Wedgwood Museum in Barlaston\, Staffordshire\, where she has been Cura
 tor since 1979.  Under her leadership\, the new Wedgwood Museum reopened t
 o the public in October 2008 and won the prestigious Museum of the Year Aw
 ard in June 2009.  Blake-Roberts holds an honorary doctorate from Keele Un
 iversity and is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and The Museums
  Association.  She is currently a Trustee to the Wedgwood Museum\, the Spo
 de Museum\, and the Raven Mason Trust at Keele University\, as well as Dep
 uty Chair of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust.  Blake-Roberts has publish
 ed extensively\, contributing to catalogues for major exhibitions\, schola
 rly publications\, and specialist ceramic books\, including Mason’s: The F
 irst Two Hundred Years (London: Merrill Holberton Pub\, 1997)\, True Blue:
  Transfer Printed Earthenware (East Hagbourne: Friends of Blue\, 1998)\, a
 nd Wedgwood Jasperware (Oxford: Shire\, 2011).This talk will examine the w
 ay in which the Wedgwood Company\nreacted to the changing tastes in Victor
 ian Britain.  Under the guidance\nof Francis and Godfrey Wedgwood\, the co
 mpany endeavoured to regain its former\nprestige against a background of i
 ncreasing competition from other Staffordshire\nmanufacturers.  The Wedgwo
 od management carefully observed their\ncompetitors best-selling lines and
  began to emulate some of their products.\n As Clement Wedgwood took great
 er responsibility for production\, his\nexperiments with new glazes became
  particularly important\, which led the\nWedgwood Company to embrace the m
 anufacture of Majolica from 1860.\n Initially\, the company produced a mod
 est selection of pieces covered with\nextravagantly coloured glazes based 
 on the Victorian love of ornament. \nThey continually developed the range 
 of products and\, by 1878\, Wedgwood was\namong the leaders of this taste 
 and fashion.Light refreshments will be served at 5:45 pm. The\npresentatio
 n will begin at 6:00 pm.RSVP is required.PLEASE NOTE that our Lecture Hall
  can only accommodate\na limited number of people\, so please come early i
 f you would like to have a\nseat in the main room. Registrants who arrive 
 late will be seated in an\noverflow viewing area.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Wedgwood Majolica—A Response to Fashion
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