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Trained in literature and entrepreneurship, Rainey is the founder of Glasstire, the online magazine of visual art in Texas and the oldest online-only art magazine in the country. In 2019, she stepped down as publisher after over 18 years at the helm.

She is currently editing a book about the Rice Gallery and writing for magazines.

Rainey has spoken or written about arts journalism at Emory University, the USC Annenberg School, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, College Arts Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other places. She has also spoken about caregiving at Houston Methodist Hospital. She lives in Houston.

Trained in literature and entrepreneurship, Rainey is the founder of Glasstire, the online magazine of visual art in Texas and the oldest online-only art magazine in the country. In 2019, she stepped down as publisher after over 18 years at the helm.

She is currently editing a book about the Rice Gallery and writing for magazines.

Rainey has spoken or written about arts journalism at Emory University, the USC Annenberg School, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, College Arts Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other places. She has also spoken about caregiving at Houston Methodist Hospital. She lives in Houston.

Trained in literature and entrepreneurship, Rainey is the founder of Glasstire, the online magazine of visual art in Texas and the oldest online-only art magazine in the country. In 2019, she stepped down as publisher after over 18 years at the helm.

She is currently editing a book about the Rice Gallery and writing for magazines.

Rainey has spoken or written about arts journalism at Emory University, the USC Annenberg School, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, College Arts Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other places. She has also spoken about caregiving at Houston Methodist Hospital. She lives in Houston.

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39. John Lewis Stone, Temperance Jug

John Lewis Stone, Temperance Jug, c. 1870–1872. Salt-glazed stoneware with cobalt and slip decoration, 9 × 7.5 × 7 inches.

Would this jug really deter someone from taking a drink? John Lewis Stone’s fantastic stoneware jug that shows a doofusy-looking person literally stuck in the bottle, tormented by creepy-crawlies, is ostensibly meant to warn of the dangers of overindulgence. So-called temperance jugs were popular in the decades leading to Prohibition, but some temperance pottery items, particularly pig-shaped flasks made by Anna Pottery in Illinois, where Stone trained, were actually used as promotional tools by whiskey producers. If my choice is between a fabulous jug and endless news articles debating how many drinks per week is “healthy,” I’ll take the jug.

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