2025 Ceramic Invitational Exhibition
April 25 - July 13, 2025
Generously sponsored by John Williams, the San Angelo Endowment for Ceramic Events, and Texas Commision on the Arts
The 2025 Ceramic Invitational Exhibition Featuring Ruth Wilson
Ruth Hart Wilson lives in Brenham, Texas. She received a master’s degree in Art Education from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona, and taught high school and junior high school for many years. In 1995, she got married and retired from teaching to pursue art full time. She had been a painter all her artistic career, but when she studied ceramics with Roy Hanscom, she fell in love with clay. She is known for her whimsical, hand-built ceramic characters, each one with a story. “As a child I loved to play ‘pretend,’ Ruth says. “My sister and I dressed up in our elegant dresses, jewelry, and hats (mom’s old clothes) and went into another world.” Each one of her characters inhabits its own enchanting world, inviting viewers into a new, fascinating, and often humorous, place. Two of her creations, Fu Wang and Natasha F. Whittage, have been charming visitors to the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts since 2002, as part of the museum’s Permanent Collection.
Natasha, 2002. 24” x 20” x 13" Ceramic, handbuilt.
Narrative Works from the Rosenfield Collection
Louise Rosenfield (who juried the 25th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition in 2024) and her husband David have curated a collection of contemporary, functional ceramic art, comprised of over 4,000 objects. The Rosenfields also have established an online resource of this collection (rosenfieldcollection.com) for scholars or others looking for inspiration, to see and appropriate images of the artworks.
To accompany the Ruth Wilson exhibit, a selection of around 100 items from the Rosenfield Collection, ranging from cups to teapots to salt and pepper shakers, will be on display at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts. Each of these works has a narrative theme—it has been invested by its artist with a story to tell, whether through its form or its decorative surface or words written directly on the ceramic.
Julia Galloway, Teapot, Courtesy of the Rosenfield Collection
Roberto Lugo, Rob N Dash Pitcher, Courtesy of the Rosenfield Collection
Learn more about the 2025 Ceramic Invitational Exhibition and Symposium
The Plein Air Landscape: Selections from the Permanent Collection
October 18, 2024 – June 22, 2025
Bill Farnsworth, Keep the Change, 2017
In the late 19th century, French Impressionists like Claude Monet revolutionized painting by taking it outside in the open air—en plein air—where the painting done outside was the goal, and not just a means to an end. American artists like Childe Hassam and Frank Reaugh studied in Europe and brought plein air painting back to the United States, where expansive vistas and dramatic landscapes provided ample inspiration. This exhibit traces plein air painting from its roots in Impressionism to today’s worldwide plein air movement, especially in Texas and right here in San Angelo.
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Special Loan Exhibit at the Official Residence of the European Union's Ambassador to the United States, Washington, D.C.
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Ceramics and paintings from the SAMFA Collection on display in the Ambassador's home.