No longer forgotten, Commeraw’s story continues to grow. Here’s a list of selected news coverage of Thomas W. Commeraw and the Commeraw Project:
Antiques & The Arts Weekly: Q&A: Brandt Zipp & Rob Hunter. (Explores research into newly discovered African-American potter of Lancaster County, PA, John Wesley.) (March 17, 2025.)
Southampton History Museum: Commeraw Stoneware at the Halsey House: Old artifacts tell new stories. (February 28, 2025, updated April 19, 2025.)
Albany Times Union: Pottery Exhibit Reclaims Story of 19th-Century Black Artisan. (July 2, 2023.)
The New York Review of Books: Resistance Pottery. (May 11, 2023.)
Hyperallergic: Reclaiming the Story of Free Black Potter Thomas W. Commeraw. (April 10, 2023.)
The New York Times: A Tribute to a 19th-Century Ceramist and His Influence. (March 9, 2023.)
The Guardian: Thomas Commeraw: The Black 19th-Century Potter Who Historians Assumed was White. (February 15, 2023.)
Art News: Potter Thomas Commeraw, One of 19th-Century New York’s Few Free Black Entrepreneurs, Finally Gets His Due. (February 2, 2023.)
Antiques & The Arts Weekly: Thomas W. Commeraw: How Groundbreaking Research Restored A Master New York Potter To Prominence. (January 17, 2023.)
East End Beacon: Long Wharf Finds Tell History Of Sag Harbor. (September 15, 2021.)
Smithsonian News Release: National Museum of African American History and Culture Joins White House To Celebrate Black History Month. (A Commeraw jug is one of only a few objects to be selected to be displayed at the White House to represent the NMAAHC.) (February 12, 2016.)
Farsunds Avis (Farsund, Norway): 200-Year-Old Pot Found on the Sea Floor (Translation of Norwegian title). (March 27, 2012.)
The New York Times: From Manhattan to Sierra Leone. (October 13, 2011.)
crockerfarm.com: The Thomas Commeraw Project. (This was my very first announcement of the Commeraw Project, in which I revealed Thomas W. Commeraw’s racial identity to the modern world.) (March 31, 2010.)
Antiques & The Arts Weekly: Hartford Flask Tops Crocker Farm Stoneware Auction At $40,250. (Article noting the $28,750 price of a Commeraw jug, a world auction record for his work at the time. Commeraw’s identity as an important early African-American figure had not been publicly revealed at this time.) (August 25, 2009.)