Architectural Pottery Paper Model Workshop

About the Workshop

Learn how to make your own Malcolm Leland lantern, or another Architectural Pottery-inspired form, just using paper! We'll briefly tour the current exhibition Architectural Pottery: Ceramics for a Modern Landscape and explore the technical aspects of Architectural Pottery so we can consider how to recreate our favorite shapes using just paper. Then, we’ll sit down for a hands-on workshop and try creating some of the shapes we’ve just seen. Templates will be provided. At the end of this workshop, each student will have their own architectural pottery paper model to take home.

Your Paper Model Workshop ticket includes all materials, as well as AMOCA museum admission.

About the Exhibition

Architectural Pottery: Ceramics for a Modern Landscape explores the significant impact of mid-twentieth-century architecture and design on artists in California.

The exhibition Architectural Pottery brings together work by the largely under-recognized ceramic artists and graphic and industrial designers alongside contemporary and period photographs, original catalogs and ephemera sourced from private collections, and reproductions of Architectural Pottery company materials from the UCLA Library Special Collection.

Curated by Jo Lauria, AMOCA's Adjunct Curator, this exhibition presents an unparalleled insight into Architectural Pottery's enduring appeal. It is also a celebration of the company's revolutionary products and role in shaping mid-20th-century American design, offering a window into a transformative era of creativity and originality. Architectural Pottery offers an exciting opportunity to trace the influence of this important era on today’s California landscape.