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Upcoming Exhibitions

Furnishing the Modern Home: The Work of Evelyn & Jerome Ackerman
January 29, 2011–May 8, 2011
Craft and Folk Art Museum
Los Angeles, CA

California Design, 1930–1965: Living in a Modern Way
October 2, 2011–January 22, 2012
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, CA

 

Virtual Exhibitions

Craft in America
Virtual Exhibition

 

Past Exhibitions

Masters of Mid-Century California Modernism: Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman
Mingei International Museum
Dale Carolyn Gluckman & Jo Lauria, Co-Curators
San Diego, CA

Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1990–2000
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, CA

California Pottery: From Mission to Modernism
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA

Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950–2000
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, CA

The Renwick at 25
Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC

Celebrating Nature
Craft and Folk Art Museum
Los Angeles, CA

Mythical Creatures and Characters
Craft and Folk Art Museum
Los Angeles, CA

Envisioning Jacob’s Ladder: Religion, Representation, and Allusion in American Visual Culture 1750–2000
Iris and B. Gerald Canter Gallery, College of Holy Cross
Worcester, MA

Clay and California
Free Hand Gallery
Los Angeles, CA

Ink & Clay 30
Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona
Pomona, CA

L.A. Modern and Beyond
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, CA

Featured Artist: Jerome Ackerman
Del Mano Gallery
Brentwood, CA

California Landscapes and Earthshapes
Millard Sheets Gallery
Pomona, CA

California Design ‘76
Pacific Design Center
Los Angeles, CA, 1971

California Design XI
Pasadena Art Museum
Pasadena, CA, 1971

California Design X
Pasadena Art Museum
Pasadena, CA, 1968

California Design IX
Pasadena Art Museum
Pasadena, CA, 1965

California Design VIII
Pasadena Art Museum
Pasadena, CA, 1962

California Design VII
Pasadena Art Museum
Pasadena, CA, 1961

California Design VI
Pasadena Art Museum
Pasadena, CA, 1960

California Design V
Pasadena Art Museum
Pasadena, CA, 1959

California Design IV
Pasadena Art Museum
Pasadena, CA, 1958

California Design III
Pasadena Art Museum
Pasadena, CA, 1957

California Design II
Pasadena Art Museum
Pasadena, CA, 1956

California Design I
Pasadena Art Museum
Pasadena, CA, 1955

Craftsmanship in a Changing World
Inaugural Exhibition
Museum of Contemporary Crafts
New York, NY

California Designed
Long Beach Municipal Art Gallery
Long Beach, CA
Oakland Museum
Oakland, CA

California Designed
Long Beach Municipal Art Gallery
Long Beach, CA
de Young Museum
San Francisco, CA

Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN

California Living
Home Fashion League
Los Angeles, CA

Scripps College Invitational
Scripps College
Claremont, CA

Clay/Fiber/Metal
St. Paul Art Center (now Minnesota Museum of American Art)
St. Paul, MN

Smithsonian Invitational
Kiln Club
Smithsonian Museum
Washington, DC

Decorative Arts and Crafts Exhibition
Wichita, KS

Ceramic National and Traveling Exhibition
Syracuse Museum (now Everson Museum)
Syracuse, NY

 

Selected Museum Collections

Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, DC

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, CA

Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art
Alfred, NY

Oakland Museum of Art
Oakland, CA

Long Beach Museum
Long Beach, CA

 

Awards

2008 Henry Award for Excellence in Design
Museum of California Design
Los Angeles, CA

2010 Wayne State University Distinguished Alumni Award
(Jerome and Evelyn Ackerman)
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI

2010 Alfred University Alumni Award for Distinguished Achievement
(Jerome Ackerman)
Alfred University
Alfred, NY

 

Lectures

“Partners in Life and Design–Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman,”
by Jeffrey Head, design writer and historian

“Perspectives on Mid-Century California Design,”
by Jo Lauria and Dale Carolyn Gluckman (exhibition curators), Gerard O’Brien (Reform Gallery), Dave Hampton (Objects USA), Keith York (ModernSanDiego.com), and Catherine Bailey and Robin Petravic (Heath Ceramics).

   
 
 
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