Part of the art pottery experience is attending various shows and events throughout the year. You always end up finding that one art pottery piece that completes your collection or maybe meet someone who shares your passion for McCoy cookie jars; and no one walks away from any of these shows without gaining a lot of valuable information. With that thought in mind, here are a few upcoming events slated for Summer 2010 throughout the country.
Pottery Events
Tuesday, April 20
Bonhams & Butterfields – Los Angeles, CA
Event: 20th Century Decorative Arts including
Property from the Estate of Nancy M. Daly (auction)
bonhams.com/us
Wednesday, April 21 – Sunday, April 25
American Art Pottery Association
– Independence, OH (a Cleveland suburb)
Event: Annual Convention, Pottery Auction, Show & Sale
Saturday, April 24 – Sunday, April 25
Rago –
Lambertville, NJ
Event: 20th Century Decorative Arts & Furnishings (auction)
ragoarts.com
Through April 30
A Show of Hands Gallery – Philadelphia, PA
Event: “Potters Council 2010
Exhibition: FILL-adelphia”
ceramicartsdaily.org/potters-council
Saturday, May 8
Rocky River Public Library
– Rocky River, OH
Event: Annual Cowan Pottery Symposium
cowanpottery.org and rrpl.org
May 8 – Saturday, August 7
The Zanesville Museum of Art
– Zanesville, OH
Event: “Deco” (exhibition of Ohio ceramics)
zanesvillemuseumofart.org
Sunday, May 16
Belhorn Auction Services, LLC –
Columbus, OH
Event: Philip Sartore Collection of Contemporary
Pottery (auction)
belhorn.com and potterymarketplace.com
Sunday, May 23
John Toomey Gallery – Oak Park, IL
Event: 20th Century Art & Design Auction
treadwaygallery.com
May 27 – September 5
Columbia Museum of Art – Columbia, SC
Event: “Innovation and Change: Great Ceramics from
the Ceramic Research Center, Arizona State University Art Collection” (traveling exhibition)
columbiamuseum.org
May 29 – July 18
Brandywine River Museum – Chadds Ford, PA
Event: “Crocks, Jugs, and Jars: Decorated American
Stoneware” (exhibition)
brandywinemuseum.org
Saturday, June 5 – Sunday, June 6
The Auctions at Rookwood – Cincinnati, OH
Event: “Rookwood XX, Keramics 2010 & Art
Glass 2010” (auction)
theauctionsatrookwood.com
June 11, 12 & 13
The North Dakota Pottery Collectors Society – Grand Forks, ND
Event: Celebrating 100 years of U.N.D. (convention)
ndpcs.org
June 12 – August 29
Everson Museum of Art
– Syracuse, NY
Event: “The Scarab Vase—Celebrating 100 Years”
(exhibition, in conjunction with the Strathmore Festival)
everson.org
Thursday, July 8 – Sunday, July 11
Pottery Lovers - Ramada Inn, Zanesville, OH
Event: Pottery Lovers Reunion
potterylovers.org
New and Ongoing Continuing Exhibitions
Please check web link for event dates.
“The world’s largest public collection of Overbeck Art Pottery”
Midwest Museum of American Art • Elkhart, IN
Event: Recently dedicated R. Douglas & Barbara Grant Family Gallery, plus Brown County Pottery & works by Indiana potters Karl Martz and Becky Brown. Click here to see MidWest Museum newsletter about the Grant's donation.
www.midwestmuseum.us
American Ceramics, 1876-1956: The Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection
See Press Release on this website – click here
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
metmuseum.org
Inspiration and Ingenuity: American Stoneware
Colonial Williamsburg, VA
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
history.org