Ceramics Research Center

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Facts

The ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center is designed as a destination for national and international scholars, and a national model for a hands-on facility for ceramics. The center encompasses:

• the ASU Art Museum’s extensive ceramic collection of 3,000 pieces, specializing in
  20th century and contemporary American and British ceramics;
  
• approximately 5,000 square feet of open storage and exhibition space;
  
• access to the collection for students, scholars and the public for study and enjoyment; and
  
• the opportunity for close viewing of objects from the collection by appointment.

The next phase embraces four goals to further establish the center as a nationally recognized site for presentation, research and study of ceramics:

• a permanent, specially designed space in the Tempe Center development;
  
• a curator to care for the collection, facilitate use by students, scholars and the public, mount exhibitions and continue to research the collection;
  
• access to archival materials and collection records online and in hard copies for on site advanced research; and
  
• a dedicated endowment to fund collecting, conservation, publications, exhibitions and educational programming.

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