Hot, Hotter, Hottest: 300 Years of New Jersey Clay

Exhibition Design & Graphic Design

Permanent Installation - Now on View

Hot, Hotter, Hottest: 300 years of New Jersey Ceramics is the Newark Museum’s first permanent gallery exhibiting pieces produced in New Jersey.  Installed as a democracy of ceramics organized by their firing temperature and clay body, the exhibition conveys how New Jersey’s rich surplus of natural resources shaped its ceramics industry.  The exhibition pays homage to the 1915 exhibition The Clay Products of New Jersey that was the first to draw acclaim to industry/craft as art practice.  Infographics illustrate production techniques and help educate, while the installation details ceramic uses through different time periods and social status, celebrating extraordinary pieces and introducing some contemporary makers.