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Milwaukee Art Museum returns enslaved potter's vessels to descendants
The Milwaukee Art Museum has returned a group of ceramic vessels made by an enslaved potter to the potter's descendants. The transfer returns works created by an enslaved artisan to their family, making it a notable case of a US museum restituting objects in its collection through direct return to descendants rather than sale or transfer to another institution.
Why now: Museums returning works made by enslaved people to their descendants is rare, drawing attention to questions of ownership and restitution in American art institutions.
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- Milwaukee Art Museum returns enslaved potter's vessels to descendants · Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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