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Join Jeffery S. Evans for a lecture on Southern Pottery. Jeff Evans’ expertise in early American glass and 18th and 19th-century Shenandoah Valley furniture and decorative arts is recognized throughout Virginia and the United States. 

Jeff currently serves on the MESDA Advisory Board. He was a member of the Board of Directors at the Museum of American Glass in WV from 2006 to 2016, and for more than fifteen years Jeff served on the board at the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society where he was also the head of the Shenandoah Valley Folk Art & Heritage Center’s Museum Committee.

Jeff has lectured widely and conducted classes on antiques including American glass and Shenandoah Valley pottery. In 2004, his extensive knowledge of Valley pottery was showcased when Jeff served as guest curator and co-authored the accompanying catalog for the exhibit, “A Great Deal of Stone & Earthen Ware” (The Rockingham County, Virginia School of Folk Pottery).

As a guest speaker at the 2009 MESDA furniture seminar, Jeff lectured on Shenandoah Valley of Virginia Seating Forms of the late 18th to early 20th centuries, a subject he has been documenting and researching since the early 1970s. Jeff served as guest curator for the related exhibit at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester, VA, titled “Come In and Have a Seat: Vernacular Chairs of the Shenandoah Valley”. On display from December 19, 2009, through June 20, 2010, the exhibit also yielded the exceptional Evans-authored exhibit catalogue/reference volume of the same name, the first catalogue ever published in conjunction with an MSV-organized changing exhibition.