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American Museum of Ceramic Art / AMOCA

Name: American Museum of Ceramic Art / AMOCA
Address: 399 N Garey Avenue, Pomona, CA, 91767, US
Telephone: (909) 865-3146
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American Museum of Ceramic Art / AMOCA

AMOCA champions the art, history, and creation of ceramics through exhibitions and programming.
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We're currently open to the public Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 11am-4pm, and most weekdays for tours and school groups.

09/03/2026

Kick off your September with First Fridays at AMOCA! On the First Friday of each month, we offer pay-what-you-can admission to the museum. Visit any time during our open hours, 11am-4pm, this Friday, September 4 to take advantage of First Friday admission.

When you visit, explore Tōgei: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics; Stop, Drop, + Pose: Clay in Motion; Fractured Foundations: 250 Years of American History; and selections from the 2026 High School Exhibition!

Thanks to generous support from AMOCA’s Board of Directors, on the First Friday of every month, you can visit the Museum and choose your own ticket prices. First Friday tickets may be purchased at the door when you arrive. Just let us know how much you'd like to pay when you purchase your ticket.

Learn more and plan your visit at https://www.amoca.org/visit/

Pictured:
1. Guests at the American Museum of Ceramic Art
2. Conrad Chern, When the Tide Leaves, 2025. Ceramic. 2026 High School Exhibition 11th Grade Honorable Mention, currently on view at AMOCA.
3. Guests exploring Tōgei: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
4. Jos Sances, Satchem Metacom, 2025. Ceramic. On view in Fractured Foundations.

09/02/2026

This past Saturday we hosted our first collaborative coffee and mug making pop up with .cof ☕️It was a huge success and so much fun thanks to everyone who attended! Stay tuned for possibly more pop ups in the future 👀

Don’t miss out -- see our website for more events: www.amoca.org/events/

⏰AMOCA is open every Friday - Sunday from 11am - 4pm
📌 399 N Garey Ave Pomona CA 91767

09/01/2026

Take your time and linger over contemporary ceramic art when you visit AMOCA. Our current exhibitions are full of beauty, nuance, and detail. Come on out and explore!

The museum is open for walk-up visitors Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 11am-4pm. Free admission for active-duty military personnel and their families continues through September 7, admission for ages 12 and under is always free, and we offer discounts for Pomona residents, students, seniors, and SNAP recipients all year round.

Learn more and plan your visit at amoca.org/visit

Pictured:
1. Exhibition view, Tōgei: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
2. Tsuboi Asuka, Platter: Kyoto Diary I, 1976. Glazed stoneware with overglaze enamels. Collection of Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College.
3. Exhibition view, Fractured Foundations
4. L: Salvador Jiménez-Flores, Existimos en el futuro / We Exist in the Future, 2019.
R: Salvador Jiménez-Flores, Historia de los Estados Unidos ayer hoy pero no mañana / United States History Yesterday, Today But Not Tomorrow, 2019

08/31/2026

Ready for some evening fun? Sign up for one of our upcoming Friday night introductory classes and get creative!

🍷 New in September, we're offering "Wheel & W**e" from 7:30-9:00pm on Friday, September 11. Enjoy local w**e and savory snacks while you learn the basics of throwing on the potter’s wheel. Your class fee includes everything you’ll need: instruction, clay, w**e or a non-alcoholic beverage, selected snacks, and glaze and firing services. Each student also receives a guest pass to AMOCA; when you come back to pick up your fired work, take some time to explore current exhibitions!

Note: Wheel & W**e classes are for adults ages 21 and over only.

🎨 Our next one-hour Introductory clay class is also coming up, at 5:30pm on Friday, September 11. In this studio class, you'll learn the basics of throwing on the potter’s wheel, get your hands dirty, and have fun! Introductory sessions are for adults ages 18 and over (students 16+ may attend when accompanied by a paying adult).

Did you know? Our studio classroom is air conditioned!

Learn more and register today at amoca.org/events or follow the links in our bio

Pictured: an introductory class in the Studio, throwing on the wheel, students learning hand building techniques.

08/30/2026

🚨WE’RE HIRING!

Do you love working with kids and consider yourself a creative, energetic, and patient person? We’re looking for teaching artists to join our Mud Mobile team here at AMOCA!

This is a mobile museum program that focuses on creating equitable access to the ceramic arts by taking AMOCA’s programming out of the museum to meet students and teachers where they are.

The role of the Mud Mobile Art instructor is to: lead programs based on our collection focused on Visual Thinking Strategies and hands-on clay learning, along with working together to refine and expand AMOCA’s mobile and in-house educational services.

What we need from you: licensed driver with a car, availability between 9am-4pm at least two days a week, Spanish speaking (not required), previous experience working with kids.

Think this is the right position for you? Apply today!
Not sure but wanna chat? Reach out!

📍 The American Museum of Ceramic Art— Pomona, CA
📩 [email protected]
Subject: HIRING MUD MOBILE INSTRUCTOR
Please include your resume, cover letter, and your availability during the week.

Know someone who would be perfect for this? Send this post to them or tag them below! 👇

08/28/2026

Happy Birthday to all the Virgos!✨
Virgos are known for being practical, perfectionists, and over thinkers. Do you think that’s true?

Get a sneak peak into AMOCA’s extensive collections with our highlighted pieces, depicting a variety of virgo-esque maidens!

⏰ AMOCA is open every Friday - Sunday from 11am - 4pm
📍 399 N Garey Ave Pomona CA 91767

08/27/2026

A close-up moment from our current exhibition, Togei: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, of Shigemasa Higashida’s platter. Higashida’s nuances of Kuro-Oribe allow him to push those brilliant turquoise glazes in between. A stillness we can all sit with, especially in this heat wave.

Next time you visit AMOCA, take time to look closely at all these wonderful uses of glaze. We are open Friday through Sunday from 11 AM - 4 PM, no reservation needed.

08/26/2026

On Saturday August 15th, guests who attended our monthly Clay Play learned about the wonderful world of clay animation through our Strata-cut workshop!

In our All-Ages class, attendees learned how to squish, cut, layer and slice with a technique that reveals hidden designs within. Revived in the 80's by David Daniels, strata-cut has gone on to be used in film, music videos on MTV and television like Smiling Friends and PeeWee's playhouse.

✨See what our budding artists created! Like a Rorschach test, different images can be seen through each cut – What did you see? 👀

Don’t miss out on our next CLAY PLAY and see our website for more events:
www.amoca.org/events/

⏰AMOCA is open every Friday - Sunday from 11am - 4pm
📌 399 N Garey Ave Pomona CA 91767

08/25/2026

Take a closer look at work from "Fractured Foundations: 250 Years of American History." Here's Reniel Del Rosario's piece "A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage," currently on view at AMOCA.

"Fractured Foundations" coincides with the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. For this exhibition, we invited ceramic artists to reconsider historical events through the lens of contemporary art, challenging historical narratives and offering a fuller perspective on our country.

Del Rosario's piece was inspired by the 47-acre “Philippine Reservation” at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. Developed in collaboration with the War Department, supported by then-President William Howard Taft and the U.S. Military governor of the Philippines, the exhibit was designed to defend the American conquest of the Philippines by portraying Filipinos as primitives, subjects in need of American guidance.

For the living exhibit, six Philippine “villages” were “stocked” with men, women, and children from 40 different tribes. Tribespeople were forced to slaughter and eat dogs daily for visitors. Not used to the cold weather, some died from pneumonia. The exhibit wasn’t a sideshow; the Reservation was visited by 99% of the fair’s 20 million attendees. In 2025, 120 years later, a historical marker acknowledging the atrocity was placed in St. Louis.

Del Rosario’s piece references the collectible and souvenir vessels sold at the fair. According to the artist, the vessels represent “Filipinos being removed from their homes for US amusement, for indigenous flora and fauna left in the vases to rot or decay, confronting the idea of American imperialism using its captives for amusement and entertainment.”

Pictured: Reniel Del Rosario, "A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage" (detail), 2026. Ceramic.

08/24/2026

It's a great week to plan a visit to AMOCA! The museum is open Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 11am-4pm, and we have wonderful exhibitions for you to explore! Stay awhile -- the museum and studio classroom are air-conditioned ☃

✨This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday the museum galleries and gift shop are open from 11am-4pm. Admission for ages 12 and under is always free, and we offer discounts for Pomona residents, students, seniors, and SNAP recipients.

✨Saturday, August 29 at noon Tōgei curator Hollis Goodall will lead a walk-through of the exhibition at AMOCA; registration is recommended. The walk-through is free with admission; space may be limited.

✨Saturday, August 29 at 1pm, join us for a mug-making workshop in the studio in collaboration with Pull-Up Coffee! Pre-registration is required, and we have just a few seats left! A few weeks later, once your clay coffee mug is fired, we'll reconvene to enjoy a private coffee tasting!

Learn more and plan your visit at www.amoca.org/events or follow the links in our bio.

Pictured:
Sake vessels on view in Tōgei: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
Curator Hollis Goodall welcomes guests to Tōgei
Artist in Residence Kristy Moreno leads a workshop in the Studio
Pull-Up Coffee pop up in Downtown Pomona
Exhibition view, Fractured Foundations: 250 Years of American History
Guest exploring Fractured Foundations; foreground: work by Kukuli Velarde

Address

399 N Garey Avenue
Pomona, CA
91767

Opening Hours

Friday	11am - 4pm
Saturday	11am - 4pm
Sunday	11am - 4pm

Telephone

(909) 865-3146

Website

http://www.amoca.org/

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