Enjoy an excursion to experience the exhibition, Architectural Pottery: Ceramics for A Modern Landscape at the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) in Pomona, CA. A comfortable luxury bus will transport you on the 90-minute ride from Palm Springs and includes museum admission, a private tour with curator Jo Lauria, and buffet-style lunch from local café Mito’s, including a variety of options to accommodate vegetarian, dairy-free, vegan, wheat-free, and meat-centered diets.

On view at the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) through March 2, Architectural Pottery explores the significant impact of mid-twentieth-century architecture and design on artists in California.

The exhibition tells the story of Architectural Pottery, a company founded by Max and Rita Lawrence alongside student designers John Follis and Rex Goode in 1950, which grew into a vibrant manufactory with a design line of several hundred products, including some of the most enduring forms in midcentury Modernism. The exhibition brings together work by the largely under-recognized ceramic artists and designers Marilyn Kay Austin, Raul Angulo Coronel, David Cressey, Aurilla Doerner, Al Eggleston, John Follis, Leon Galleto, Rex Goode, Frank Krueger, Malcolm Leland, Paul McCobb, Jack Morris, Gordon Newell, and LaGardo Tackett.

The exhibition includes contemporary photographs by Dan Chavkin, period photographs of Architectural Pottery planters in situ in midcentury Modern residences by Julius Shulman (Getty Research Institute Archive), original catalogs and ephemera from Architectural Pottery sourced from private collections, and reproductions of company materials from the UCLA Library Special Collection. At the AMOCA store, tour participants may purchase the Architectural Pottery accompanying book at 10% off.

Tour participants may have time to view other current exhibitions at AMOCA, which will include A Traveler's Guide to Mettlach, presenting scenes of everyday life in 1880s Mettlach, Germany as documented and celebrated by Villeroy and Boch, a ceramic production company founded in 1836; and Home Sweet Home, a solo exhibition by Carly Slade presenting new works influenced by that artist's concern for the precarious nature of the working class.

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