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IMoDD Hours:
Thursday – Sunday 12:00 to 5:00 p.m.
The International Museum of Dinnerware Design
524 Broadway Kingston, NY 12401
845-383-1333
For IMoDD location and parking, see the map below.
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What’s New with IMoDD:
IMoDD’s Unforgettable Dinnerware Zoom Lecture Series:
The Spring 2025 Unforgettable Dinnerware series begins on January 15 with presentations on the second Wednesday of each month through May.
Upcoming Zoom Lecture:
Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time
CERAMIC GESTURES: A Studio & Teaching Practice in North America
part of the IMoDD Unforgettable Dinnerware Zoom lecture series
Presented by Linda Sikora
Linda Sikora, trained as a studio potter, is working as an artist/educator in Alfred, NY. Sikora’s presentation at IMoDD will address the broader context the studio research as it has unfolded over the last several years and the works that have represented it. As part of this, Sikora will share an overview of their professional trajectory, including details regarding the more salient technical aspects of producing the work, and stages of the studio and teaching practice that led up to it. Linda Sikora looks forward to engaging with the IMoDD audience.
Linda Sikora is second generation Canadian whose paternal grandparents immigrated from Eastern Europe, as political tides turned, to work in the orchards of British Columbia, Canada & coal mines in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Sikora’s mother was the oldest of 14 siblings (Scottish/French) from Eastern Canada. Secondary school education was a luxury not afforded her parents, but their values of personal agency and industry were impactful. Furniture her father built for the household and her mother’s acute, discerning aesthetic influenced her pursuit of an art/craft/design education.
Sikora resides with her family near Alfred NY where she has a studio practice and is a Professor of Ceramic Art at the New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University. Academic study in visual art (BA) and a ceramic-based apprenticeship in British Columbia was the foundation of her training that continued at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University (BFA) and University of Minnesota–Minneapolis (MFA).
Professional activities are national and international: Artist residencies include Archie Bray Foundation; Chunkang College of Cultural Industry, Korea; Tainan National College of The Arts, Taiwan; Clay Edge, Australia.
Public Collections include Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; Racine Art Museum, WI; Alfred Ceramic Art Museum; LA County Museum of Art; Minneapolis Institute of the Arts; Everson Museum, NY; Campos de Gutiérrez Foundation, Medellin, Colombia; Huntington Museum of Art; Fuller Craft Museum; Gardener Museum, Canada; LSU Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Smithsonian Museum of American Art; National Museum of Sweden.
Sikora was nominated and selected as a United States Artist Fellow in 2020.
You can register for the free virtual presentation HERE and we will send you a link the day of the event. The Zoom link will also be posted on our webpage about 30 minutes before the event begins.
New IMoDD Video:
Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time
The Women Behind Pyrex, America’s Favorite Dish
part of the IMoDD Unforgettable Dinnerware Zoom lecture series
Presented by Regan Brumagen
Women have been involved in every aspect of the development of America’s favorite dishware and this talk explores how women helped create, design, test, market, and popularize Pyrex throughout its history.
As the Manager for Reference and Access Services at the Corning Museum of Glass Rakow Research Library, Regan Brumagen coordinates reference, instruction and visitor services. Before joining the Museum staff in 2004, Brumagen worked as a reference librarian and instruction coordinator at several academic libraries. She has an MA in English and an MLS in Library Science from the University of Kentucky. Brumagen is active in several professional organizations, including the American Library Association and the Art Libraries Society of North America. She has previously served as the editor and web manager for the Women and Gender Studies Section of ALA, as an elected delegate to OCLC’s Americas Regional Council, and as an ARLIS liaison to ALA’s Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services.
New Podcast about IMoDD from Kaatscast: the Catskills Podcast
Kaatscast is a biweekly series featuring Catskills culture, history, sustainability, local interviews, literature, and the arts. Shows are hosted by Brett Barry and produced by Silver Hollow Audio, in the heart of the Catskills. Voted “Best Regional Podcast” 3 years in a row.
Inaugural Exhibitions
IMoDD is presenting two inaugural exhibitions. The first is a curated exhibition of Dining Grails. Included are nearly 400 fabulously designed objects by leading designers for industry as well as masterpieces by contemporary artists in the tabletop genre such as Eva Zeisel, Russel Wright, Roy Lichtenstein, Eddie Dominguez and Pop-up book illustrator Robert Sabuda. The second inaugural exhibition, Dining Memories offers a chance to remember cherished dining experiences through abbreviated, intimate vignettes such as picnics, innovative Mid-Century TV dinners, diner moments, tea aboard the Queen Mary, the art of high chair fine dining, and more. Follow the links to learn more about these exhibitions:
Link to: Dining Grails
Link to: Dining Memories
à la carte gallery
Our interactive gallery where you can try pulling a tablecloth out from under some dishes! (And share your success by posting a video on Instagram)
Carry Outs
Carry Outs is IMoDDs gift shop featuring books, calendars and some very special dinnerware.
Photos from IMoDD’s Members Preview Party on October 26, 2024
The International Museum of Dinnerware Design was established in 2012 with the knowledge that dining is a shared experience that can bridge together different communities. We support all those standing up against the historic inequality and institutionalized racism experienced in the Black community. In solidarity, IMoDD, its board, and its staff continue to amplify equity, diversity, and inclusion and call our community to action with us in this commitment to change.
The International Museum of Dinnerware Design was established in 2012 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We are a charitable 501(c)(3) organization that recently moved into its first bricks-and-mortar facility in Kingston, New York after holding pop-up exhibitions for several years. The International Museum of Dinnerware Design has a curated collection of over 9000 objects.
The International Museum of Dinnerware Design celebrates a significant aspect of our daily lives. The permanent collection features international dinnerware from ancient to futuristic times; created from ceramic, glass, plastic, metal, lacquer, fiber, paper, wood and more.
The collection and related special exhibitions reveal a refreshing approach – featuring masterpieces of the tabletop genre created by contemporary artists, as well as notable historic dinnerware by the leading designers for industry, juxtaposed with an uncommon focus on non-functional fine art that references dining and a bit of kitsch thrown in for good measure.
Here’s the only museum in the world devoted exclusively to dinnerware, making new memories for every visitor. The Kingston-based IMoDD brings enough dinnerware to each special exhibition to whet your appetite.
IMoDD, through its collections, exhibitions and educational programming, provides a window on our material culture, norms and attitudes towards food and dining. A delight for collectors, foodies, and visitors worldwide, IMoDD has been described as creating a dream museum one place setting at a time.