Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina

CRITIC’S PICK: Sixty ceramic objects created by enslaved men and women in South Carolina, before the Civil War, are being put on display at the High in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. “Considered through the lens of current scholarship in the fields of history, literature, anthropology, material culture, diaspora, and African American studies, these nineteenth-century vessels testify to the lived experiences, artistic agency, and material knowledge of those who created them,” curators say. Hear Me Now will also feature work by contemporary Black artists “who have responded to or whose practice connects with the Edgefield story,” including Theaster Gates, Simone Leigh, and Woody De Othello. — Kevin C. Madigan