Exhibition Dates: October 7-9, 2011
Opening Reception: October 6, 2011, 5:30 – 9 pm
The Ceramics Annual of America is part of California’s continuing legacy of excellence and innovation in ceramics. Our goal is to encourage the education and enrichment of the public, thereby promoting awareness of the ceramics community, cultivating a fertile art market, and fostering dialog between collectors and makers of contemporary ceramics. Ceramic artists, educators and collaborators, we are interested in sharing and sustaining connections with others worldwide.
The Ceramics Annual of America (CAA) is an ambitious new exhibition and fair spotlighting the quality and diversity of contemporary ceramics in the Americas. The first event of its kind in the United States, the annual is modeled on the Ceramic Biennials held in Europe, Korea, Japan and China. The Ceramics Annual of America will provide a venue for regional and national artists working in the clay medium to show their work to a broader group of collectors.
Organized by the California Ceramics Cooperative, a group of invested regional ceramic artists, CAA will bring together an impressive number of the nation’s top ceramic artists, instructors and collectors. Panel discussions, lectures, tours and demonstrations will be held throughout the exhibition, including a panel on regional ceramics. This is a unique opportunity to see this work showed comprehensively in an exhibition environment.“Artistic childcare” will be provided by the exploratory ceramics program Kids N’ Clay and is offered throughout the weekend.
The exhibition is scheduled for October 2011 in Festival Hall at Ft. Mason. Ft. Mason, as the site chosen for this event, embodies the essence of San Francisco—its nearness to nature, combined with the novel architecture, gives a nod to the past and offers a dose of the different. Ft. Mason is a major draw for national and international visitors to the city, while Herbst Pavilion, a 30,000 square ft. hall, can accommodate as many as 3,000 visitors.
Featured artists…
Bill Abright, Amber Aguirre, Richard Akers, Steven Allen, Wesley Anderegg, Lauren Ari, Robert Arneson, Ben Belknap, Donna Billick, Robert Brady, Jennifer Brazelton, Lisa Clague, Michele Collier, Annette Corcoran, Nuala Creed, Jeffrey Downing, Amy Evans McClure, Jon Gariepy, Dina Gewing, Arthur Gonzalez, Michelle Gregor, Susannah Israel, Joe Hawley, Wesley Horn, Jeremy Jernegan, Francisco Jimenez, Damien Jones, Margaret Keelan, Coeleen Kiebert, David Kuraoka, Carmen Lang, Mattie Leeds, Diane Levison, Eusebio Lozano, Kathryn McBride , Karl McDade, Mark Messenger, Crystal Morey, Tomoko Nakazato, Kevin Nierman, Richard Notkin, Kathy Pallie, Lisa Reinertson, Gail Ritchie, Cybele Rowe, Andy Ruble, Juan Santiago, Tiffany Schmierer, Barbara Sebatian, Nancy Selvin, Bar Shacterman, Richard Shaw, Esther Shimazu, Cynthia Siegel, Patrick Siler, Peggy Snider, Leslie Smith, Shannon Sullivan, Anne Stryke, Glenn Takai, Claudia Tarantino, Clayton Thiel, John Toki, Rogelio Urena, Derik Van Beers, Derek Weisberg, Sue Whitmore, Al Widenhofer, Cindy Williamson, Suzanne Wolfe, Wanxin Zhang, Guangzhen Zhou and more!
Join us for the biggest art party of the year! Ceramic lovers unite for a special evening celebrating clay. The Ceramics Annual of America’s opening night is October 6, 5:30pm –9pm.
For more information visit http://ceramicsannual.org/
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