ArtBabble: Dave Drake

The Dave Project- Teacher's Video

Chipstone — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:20:06 +0000

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The Dave Project

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The Dave Project celebrates the legacy of Dave the Potter, a slave potter and poet from Edgefield, South Carolina. Dave is best known for inscribing couplets onto his pots. The Dave Project took Dave's story on the road. In collaboration with Chicago poet, Orron Kenyetta, clay expert Jeremy Stepien, and the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Chipstone Foundation developed a 2-hour program that was brought to different communities around the city.

The Dave Project- Lafollette and AWE

Chipstone — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:18:40 +0000

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Valaria Tatera and Dan Vaughn, from Artists Working in Education (AWE), held a series of workshops with students from Lafollette School centered around Dave the Potter. The students studied Dave and his work, creating haikus based on Dave's poetry. This video, created by Kim Miller, captures the students reading their poems in front of Dave Drake's pot at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

The Dave Project- Chapter 5

Chipstone — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 02:33:54 +0000

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The Dave Project was born out of To Speculate Darkly: Theaster Gates and Dave the Potter. In To Speculate Darkly, an installation at the Milwaukee Art Museum, contemporary-Chicago artist Theaster Gates celebrated the legacy of Dave the Potter, an African-American slave who made pots on a plantation in ante-bellum South Carolina. Dave’s pot, a 40-gallon storage vessel placed in the center of the installation, proved unexpectedly captivating.

The Dave Project- Chapter 4

Chipstone — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:28:58 +0000

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The Dave Project- Chapter 2

Chipstone — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 21:16:20 +0000

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The Dave Project- Chapter 3

Chipstone — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 21:01:31 +0000

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The Dave Project- Chapter 1

Chipstone — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:26:47 +0000

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To Speculate Darkly Poetry Slam

Chipstone — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:51:53 +0000

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This video, filmed by Ray Chi, features the To Speculate Darkly Poetry Slam's three finalists reciting their winning original poems. The widely attended program was sponsored by the All Writers' Workshop, and took place in Theaster Gates' To Speculate Darkly installation at the Milwaukee Art Museum on July 18, 2010. The installation centered around a 40-gallon Dave Drake pot inscribed with one of his well-known couplets.

Theaster Gates - Opening night lecture, To Speculate Darkly

Chipstone — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:30:11 +0000

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To Speculate Darkly

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In the opening night lecture for his installation To Speculate Darkly, Theaster Gates discusses the inadequacies of the history of ceramics, his relationship with the potter Dave Drake, as well as his relationship with Milwaukee and Kohler. This lecture provides valuable insights into Theaster Gates' installation and exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Theaster Gates - Thumping Wisconsin

Chipstone — Tue, 18 May 2010 14:12:30 +0000

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To Speculate Darkly

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To Speculate Darkly

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Thumping Wisconsin was the opening performance for the Theaster Gates installation To Speculate Darkly at the Milwaukee Art Museum. The installation is centered around, and was inspired by, Dave Drake, an antebellum South Carolina potter who signed his name and wrote couplets on his pots. As part of the exhibition Theaster created songs based on Dave's couplets, and had a Chicago/Milwaukee choir perform the pieces. This video, shot by Ray Chi, shows excerpts from the emotionally powerful 40 minute performance at the Milwaukee Art Museum.