An outdoor mural in Edgefield, South Carolina depicts Edgefield’s most renowned potter, Dave Drake, aka Dave the Potter, or more commonly just Dave. Dave created by some estimates, more than 50,000 ...

Nearly 40 pieces of historic Edgefield pottery were reported missing after a burglary at Tompkins Library in Edgefield this June. Six months later, the pottery is still missing, and authorities are ...

The Black potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, have been known to folklorists, regional museums and collectors for more than a century. Now they have taken center stage in ”Hear Me Now: The Black ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina is not the first showcase of the poet-potter David Drake (c. 1800–70-80) and his inscribed stoneware.

Last summer, someone stole $100,000 worth of historic pottery that had been loaned to a library in Edgefield, leaving authorities searching for clues. Today, police are still looking for the 19th ...

Enslaved for most of his life, the 19th-century craftsman produced uncommonly large ceramic jars adorned by his poetic verses Jill Vaum Rothschild and Leslie Umberger David "Dave" Drake, Untitled ...