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In 1995, the TFAA's board of directors purchased the property at 700 Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas. Three years later, in November 1998, the TFAA opened its new headquarters, the Jones Center for Contemporary Art. [6] In November 2002, the name of the organization was officially changed from the Texas Fine Arts Association to Arthouse. [8]
The American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) is an art museum for ceramic art, located in Pomona, California. [1] Founded in 2003 as a nonprofit organization , the museum exhibits historic and contemporary ceramic artwork from both its permanent collection of 10,000 objects [ 2 ] and through temporary rotating exhibitions.
The museum still maintains its original home on the Clara Driscoll estate, where it was known for 34 years as Laguna Gloria Art Museum. Once owned by Stephen F. Austin , [ 3 ] the Laguna Gloria site has been declared a national treasure and is on city, state , and national registers of historic places. [ 4 ]
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In 1943 Driscoll donated the homesite to be used as a city museum. In 1961, the site was converted to the Laguna Gloria Art Museum and became an important part of the Austin arts scene. Soon after, the museum began offering art classes, and in 1983, a 5,300-square-foot (490 m 2) facility was built specifically for the growing art school.
The National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum is on the corner of North Main Street and West 21st Street, just a few blocks from the Stockyards, the anchor of Fort Worth’s cowboy culture.
The Gladstone Pottery Museum. A ceramics museum is a museum wholly or largely devoted to ceramics, usually ceramic art. Its collections may also include glass and enamel, but typically concentrate on pottery, including porcelain. Most national collections are in a more general museum covering all of the arts, or just the decorative arts ...
Kirk Mangus (1952–2013) [1] was an internationally renowned ceramic artist and sculptor "known for his playful, gestural style, roughhewn forms, and experimental glazing". [2]