Majolica Mania has been postponed due to challenges caused by COVID-19.
Revised schedule is:

• Opening at Bard Graduate Center, New York City, January 2021
• Opening at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Summer 2021

In the upcoming exhibition by the Walters Art Museum, Majolica Mania, visitors are invited into the world of majolica, a brightly colored lead-glazed earthenware popular during the Victorian period (1837-1901). The exhibition, co-organized by Bard Graduate Center, includes 350 works that showcase the significant and diverse output of the originators and major producers of Majolica in England and America between 1851 and the late 19th century.

Visitors will experience immersive installations throughout 1 West Mount Vernon Place, also known as Hackerman House, where spaces will be transformed to resemble a Victorian conservatory and dining room. The second floor of 1 West will examine how majolica was introduced to the United States by immigrant workers who arrived in increasing numbers in the second half of the century and worked in factories in Baltimore, on of the major centers of majolica production in the United States, as well as Trenton, New Jersey, and New Milford, Connecticut. The exhibition will also highlight the human cost of majolica, focusing on the lives of workers,, and memorializing them through a special art commission from a contemporary ceramicist.

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View coverage of Majolica Mania from the Walters Art Museum.

About Walters Art Museum: The Walters Art Museum is a cultural hub in the heart of Baltimore, located in the city’s Mount Vernon neighborhood. The museum’s collection spans more than seven millennia, from 5000 BCE to the 21st century, and encompasses 36,000 objects from around the world. Walking through the museum’s historic buildings, visitors encounter a stunning panorama of thousands of years of art, from romantic nineteenth-century painting of the French Countryside to mesmerizing Ethiopian icons, richly illuminated Qur’ans and Gospel books, ancient roman sarcophagi, and serene images of the Buddha. Since its founding, the Walters’ mission has been to bring art and people together to create a place where people of every background can be touched by art. As part of this commitment, admission to the museum and special exhibitions is always free.