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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Saturday, September 11, 2010, 6 - 9pm
AMOCA's 6th Birthday Celebration
Join AMOCA in celebrating its 6th birthday with a live musical
performance by Seth Greenberg and Six String Green, light refreshments,
wine and of course, cake!
Members are encouraged to bring non-member guests.
AMOCA Members Only Event
Friday, October 8, 2010, 7:30pm
Exhibition Preview and Guest Lecture with Rocky Behr, owner
and curator of The Folk Tree, Pasadena, CA. Ms. Behr will
speak about her travels all over Mexico and her collaborations
with renowned folk artist families.
Peregrinación: Mexican Folk Ceramics
Grand Opening Reception
Saturday, October 9, 2010, 6 - 9pm
Música, Aperitivos y Vino!
Festival del Día de los Muertos
(Day of the Dead Festival)
Saturday, October 30, 2010, 6 - 9pm
Join us as we celebrate our memories and ancestors at AMOCA. We invite you to dress for the dead as we enjoy Mariachi music, face painting, community altar making, pan de muerto (sweet bread), champurrado (hot chocolate-atole beverage), and tamales.
Children's Day:
Head Banks and Mexican Storytellers
Saturday, November 6, 2010, 1 - 4pm
Bring the family and make alcancías (Mexican head banks) out of clay and enjoy Mexican folk stories!
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RUPERT J. DEESE 1924-2010
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Rupert J. Deese was one of the premier mid-century potters of Southern California. Deese was born in Guam in 1924. After serving in the Army Air Corps in WWII, Deese attended Pomona College and Claremont Graduate School, graduating in 1950 and 1957 respectively. Deese studied ceramics with Richard Petterson and sculpture with Albert Stewart. From 1957-1971 he taught at Mt. San Antonio College and in 1960 Deese was included in the 21st Ceramic National at the Everson Museum, New York, where he won the IBM Sweepstakes Prize. In 1964, Rupert Deese was hired as a full- time designer in the dinnerware department of Franciscan Ceramics, Inc., where he remained until the long-running plant was closed in 1983. All the while, he made and sold his own line of hand-thrown studio pottery, a selection of organic, vessel forms, with structured, linear patterns, and soft matte glazes. Deese continued to create ceramic work through 2004. Among the institutions that have his works in their permanent collections are: Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
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The Pasadena Art Alliance provided funding to support a three-fold project: an installation by ceramic sculptor Ah Leon, entitled Memories of Elementary School; an historic and educational showing of Chinese Yixing teapots; and a demonstration workshop conducted by Au Leon. Exhibition Dates: June 10th - September 25th, 2010.
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AMOCA received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support “Harrison McIntosh: A Timeless Legacy”
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AMOCA received grant funding from the Getty Foundation for research and planning for the exhibition entitled:
Pacific Standard Time:
Art in L.A. 1945-1980
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