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Historic, Contemporary Ohio Pottery At Zanesville Museum Of Art

By: Susan Talbot-Stanaway
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Ohio Innovators in Clay tells the story of art pottery and studio pottery in Ohio through the display of more than 150 works made by the innovators of the medium from the mid-1800s to the present. 

Many of these works have never been exhibited previously in a public setting.

No other state can boast as extensive a history of ceramics as an industry and artistic medium as Ohio.

Pottery is central to the history of Zanesville and Cincinnati in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The simple, functional jugs and crocks made in the 1860s and 1870s were succeeded by hand-thrown and hand-decorated vases, in turn succeeded by molded, mass-produced ware. 

Cleveland’s Cowan pottery was a guiding addition to the mix in the mid-20th century.