Past Exhibitions

August 30–November 8, 2008 Artist Reception: Saturday, September 13, 6-9pm Robert Sperry, Bright Abyss is a retrospective exhibition of over 90 works of art from Sperry’s ceramic career including chargers, platters, wall plaques, sculptures, and murals. This show presents the evolution of one of ceramic’s great innovators. Sperry is known as a master of the “crawl […]

May 17–July 12, 2008 To establish historical context, Pueblo Clay, America’s First Pottery begins with a representative sampling of the Native American pottery collection held by the Pomona College Art Museum. Brought together over the last 70 years, this collection is particularly rich in Southwestern ceramics, both Pre-Columbian and Historic. Select pieces from the Mogollon

December 8, 2007–February 23, 2008 Organized by the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, Mississippi Opening Reception Saturday, December 8, 6-9pm Ohr Rising: The Emergence of An American Master is an exhibition of 40 key works by art potter George E. Ohr (1857-1918) of Biloxi, Mississippi. In his aesthetic choices, George E. Ohr was a ceramic

contemporary Mexican pottery created in a remote Chihuahua villa June 9–August 25, 2007 Opening Reception & Book Signing by Walter Parks and Shelly Dale: Saturday, June 9, 6-9 pm Mata Ortiz Pottery: A Forty-Year Phenomenon is the inspirational story of one man, Juan Quezada, who changed the future of his extremely poor, largely abandoned community

January 13–March 24, 2007  Opening Reception: January 13, 6–9 pm  Born in Butte, Montana in 1926, Rudy Autio is considered one of the most significant and inspirational artists working with clay in the United States today. Rudy Autio headed the ceramics department at the University of Montana for twenty-eight years. He was also a founding

California Commercial Pottery (1930–1950) September 9–November 4, 2006 Opening Reception: Sept. 9, 6–9 pm The American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) will host Color Counts: Gladding McBean, from September 9 to November 4, 2006. This exhibition is a nostalgic walk through 20th century commercially produced pottery, primarily dinnerware and artware popular from the 1930s through

April 8–July 1, 2006 Opening Reception: April 8, 6–9 p.m.Preview Event and Dinner: April 7, 6:30 p.m. The American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA), in Pomona, California, will open a solo exhibition of the work of Pennsylvania-based sculptor Steve Tobin, titled Exploded Earth, on Saturday, April 8, 2006. Tobin, who also works in bronze and

February 11–April 1, 2006 Opening Reception: February 11, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Don Reitz received his M.F.A from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1962. That same year he accepted a position at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he taught ceramics for 26 years. Had it not been for dyslexia, Don