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Alfred Ceramic Art Museum

A World Shaped in Clay

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The Alfred Ceramic Art Museum at Alfred University focuses on ceramic art, with holdings ranging from ancient fragments to modern and contemporary work. Its campus setting connects collecting with a long engagement in ceramic education. Look for the decisions made through clay: surface, volume, function, and the possibilities of a material transformed by firing.

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Unmarked clay samples and a simple unfired cylinder

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Clay can become a vessel, a sculpture, or a record of a maker’s choices. Alfred’s ceramic museum invites attention to those transformations.

Do you notice a ceramic object’s surface or shape first?

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