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 Art of Ezra Tucker
July 10 - September 7, 2025
Tour Produced by David J. Wagner, L.L.C., David J. Wagner, Ph.D., Curator/Tour Director
In this first traveling exhibition of artworks by Ezra Tucker, the untold stories of the Black experience in the history of the American West are depicted alongside monumental and dramatic paintings of North American wildlife and examples of allegory, fantasy, illustration, and narrative.
With a background in commercial illustration and design, Tucker combines his exceptional drafting skills with earth tones and warm light to give his subjects the glow of an old master’s work. Visitors will see Tucker’s hallmark ability to achieve a bold, romantic look by using a color palette and lighting that is familiar yet new.
The Global Language of Headwear: Cultural Identity, Rites of Passage, and Spirituality
August 22, 2025 - January 4, 2026
Jointly organized by Stacey W. Miller and International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC
Generously sponsored by Suzanne Sugg and Beverly Stribling
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With a special focus exhibit, from the collection of Suzanne Sugg, Chinese children’s hats and other headwear from around the world.
The Global Language of Headwear: Cultural Identity, Rites of Passage, and Spirituality presents 89 hats and headdresses carefully selected from a private collection of more than 1300 extraordinary pieces of headwear from all over the world.
This exhibition features headwear from 42 countries across Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America, and is a tribute to the stunning diversity of the world’s cultures. With a few exceptions, the pieces are from the mid-to-late 20th century, and many are still worn today in parts of the world for revelry, ritual, and the rhythms of everyday life. More than utilitarian objects of material culture, each hat is a unique work of art—not merely because of the skill required to make it, but also as a singular expression of creativity and cultural meaning.
Spirit of the Ranch: The Ranch Fellowship Exhibit
October 23, 2025 - February 8, 2026
A curated selection of works by 2025 EnPleinAir TEXAS Ranch Fellowship Artists Kirsten Anderson, Zufar Bikbov, Lon Brauer, Durre Waseem, and Jeff Williams.
For more information on the 2025 EPAT Ranch Fellowship and all related events, including the Collectors’ Stampede Exhibit and Sale and the Texas Artists Camp Revival, click HERE.
26th San Angelo North American Ceramic Competition
April 17 - June 21, 2026
Generously sponsored by John Williams and the San Angelo Endowment for Ceramic Events