Mission Statement

AMOCA champions the art, history, creation, and technology of ceramics through exhibitions, collections, outreach, and studio programming.

About the Museum

As an organization of vision, devoted to the arts, we believe that visual art experiences communicated through professional artists, workshops, or gallery exhibitions, promote cross-cultural understanding and provide new perspectives and insights which enrich our lives.

Exhibitions and programming at AMOCA embraces a wide number of topics – all relating to clay. Within this broadly diverse community, it is our goal to increase the aesthetic appreciation of clay as an art form and to assist our audience in unraveling the creative thinking behind the making of ceramic objects. At the same time, AMOCA provides confirmed clay enthusiasts with encouragement, camaraderie, and exhibition opportunity.

Used as a teaching tool, pottery is one of the most enduring indicators of culture. We can open the doors of the past through exhibitions of archeological finds; we can trace ceramic advances by studying the construction, glazing, and firing practices developed throughout history, and we can find clues to the social expression of certain time periods through the study of ceramic shapes, forms, and styles of decoration. Varied exhibitions may display pottery from different countries, focus on the work of an individual clay artist, illustrate specific skills, or emphasize current high-tech processes. Useful vessels, tile collections, and sculptural works from wide-spread eras and regions will all be part of our repertoire.

Annual Report

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