Ceramics Research Center

CRC Receives Friends of Contemporary Ceramics Award

The ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center and its Curator of Ceramics, Peter Held, received the annual CLAY Award from the Friends of Contemporary Ceramics, the largest organization of ceramic collectors, art dealers and curators in the U.S.  The award is given for lifetime achievement in advancing the field.

“Under Peter Held’s able stewardship, the ASU Art Museum’s Ceramics Research Center at Arizona State University has organized and presented exemplary exhibitions of contemporary ceramics.  These exhibitions contribute scholarship and heighten the awareness of the ceramic arts,” says Linda Schlenger, founding chairman of the Friends of Contemporary Ceramics.

Past recipients include J. Stewart Johnson and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Ulysses Grant Dietz and The Newark Museum in New Jersey; Louise Cort and Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution; Janet Mansfield and Ceramics Art and Perception Magazine and ceramic artist Peter Voulkos, among others.

The award was presented June 1, 2007, in New York City at the Friends of Contemporary Ceramics annual awards dinner.

Roger Robinson, Peter Held and Sara Lieberman
at the Friends of Contemporary Ceramics Award Dinner.

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