Past Exhibitions

July 10–September 25, 2010 Grand Opening Reception: July 10, 6-9 pm AMOCA presents Ah Leon, an international contemporary artist from Taiwan who merges Chinese Yixing traditions with his signature wood-textured trompe l’oeil style to form illusionistic installations. Originally trained as a painter at the National Academy of Fine Art in Taipei, Ah Leon became a […]

May 16–July 25, 2009 Reception: Saturday, June 13, 6-9pm Special Event: Guest Artist Talk with David FurmanSaturday, June 27, 5-7 p.m. For more than 40 years, artist David Furman has created diverse works in clay that express his ideas, experiences, and perceptions through irony, empathy, and humor. His repertoire is vast: miniature room vignettes and

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