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A new book released this month from Phaidon features the work of alumna Marilyn Kay Austin who graduated from the School of Art and Design in 1962 with a degree in Industrial Design. The book is an accompaniment to a major exhibition at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, California that explores the significant impact of mid-twentieth-century architecture and design on artists in California.
Architectural Pottery: Ceramics for a Modern Landscape by Daniel Chavkin, Jeffrey Head, and Jo Lauria, is the first book to document the history of Architectural Pottery, a company that played a key role in defining midcentury design through art and ceramics since the company’s inception in 1950.
The publication of this book coincides with a major exhibition at the American Museum of Ceramic Art that opened August 17, 2024 and will run through March 2, 2025.
The exhibition, “Architectural Pottery: Ceramics for a Modern Landscape,” is curated by Jo Lauria, AMOCA’s Adjunct Curator, and “brings together work by the largely under-recognized ceramic artists and graphic and industrial 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.”