The American Art Pottery Association (AAPA) will hold its 2007 convention April 25-29th in Cleveland, Ohio. The AAPA convention will include an art pottery show and sale, seminars, art pottery auction, and a book signing event by recognized authors.
Other events at the pottery convention include an afternoon trolley tour that stops at a library with tile works by both Grueby and Rookwood. There is also a bus tour featuring art and architecture from the Cleveland area. Highlights of the bus tour will include visits to museum collections, building tours, outdoor sculptures by Viktor Schreckengost, the Cowan Pottery Museum, and a guided tour of the art deco interior of Severance Hall and its tile installations attributed to Grueby and Pewabic Pottery.
The conventions art pottery seminars will include Mark Bassett, co-author of Cowan Pottery and the Cleveland School who will discuss ceramics of the Cleveland School; Jo Cunningham who will discuss Viktor Schreckengost dinnerware designs; Dr. James Murphy who will discuss Ohio ceramics; and nationally recognized antiques experts Ralph and Terry Kovel who will discuss their pottery collecting.
A panel featuring representatives of the Zanesville Art Center, Erie Art Museum, and History Museum of the Western Reserve Historical Society will present the challenges of building museum ceramics collections compared with constructing private art pottery collections.
Greg Myroth – JustArtPottery.com
