David Packer | The Earth has Three Colors: A Celebration of Moroccan Ceramics

VIRTUAL ARTIST TALK

Join David as he takes you inside his lavishly illustrated book about Moroccan ceramics : The Earth Has Three Colors.

The first full-length publication to provide a comprehensive overview of Moroccan ceramics, The Earth has Three Colors, traces its history from the rural domestic pottery of the indigenous peoples that inhabit the Rif Mountains, through 20th century Modernism, to the contemporary art of Marrakech. The three sections of the book center on the three different clay colors used in Morocco: indigenous red, traditional gray, and industrial white. This hardbound edition, with ten chapters, written in English with a French translation, is published for historians, collectors, ceramists and travelers: this invaluable survey brings the fascinating and previously hidden history of Moroccan ceramics into the international spotlight for the first time. You can purchase The Earth has Three Colors HERE

*This webinar was originally aired April 25th, 2020 via Zoom.

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David Packer

is a New York based artist who often works with ceramics; he was born in England and has lived in the United States since 1983. Packer’s fascination with Moroccan ceramics and the desire to write a book began in Fez in 2011, when he was a Fulbright scholar.