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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
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What’s New with IMoDD:
New IMoDD Video:
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time
From the White House to Our House: Why Functional Pots Reflect Culture and Time
part of the IMoDD Unforgettable Dinnerware Zoom lecture series
Presented by Anne Bailey
Anne Bailey reflects on her journey in the clay world starting with her education with some of the top functional potters in Britain, having her porcelain dinnerware shown as a in the White House during the Carter Administration while she was a young potter, starting the Ceramic Supply Division at Bailey Pottery, and building the Bailey Pottery Collection in Kingston, New York. The collection includes over 600 pots from the last century and is located in the Bailey factory in Kingston, New York. She discusses the collection which is primarily functional and its evolution over the years.
Anne Bailey is co-owner of Bailey Pottery Equipment. In 1983 she developed the Ceramic Supply Division of Bailey Pottery Equipment alongside her husband who has designed and manufactured world-renowned gas and electric pottery kilns, potters wheels, slabrollers, extruders and other studio equipment. She remains active in the management of the company.
New Exhibition:
The Intersection Between Dining and Photography
January 18 – February 9, 2025
Opening Reception January 18, 2025, 5:00 – 8:00 pm
Link to The Intersection Between Dining and Photography page
This small exhibition has been curated in synergy with the opening of the Center for Photography Woodstock in Kingston on January 18, 2025. The close proximity of IMoDD, the Holocenter, and the CPW create a “Museum Row” concept, linking kindred spirits in terms of exhibitions, educational programming and the celebration of the arts in Midtown Kingston New York.
This exhibit looks at photography as it relates to dinnerware and dining. Three approaches are explored through objects in the IMoDD collection. First, photography as social commentary on popular culture is seen in Sandy Skoglund’s The Cocktail Party, a large-scale photograph created from the artist’s installation of human figures and inanimate living room furnishings covered with Cheez Doodles. In addition, work by Fornasetti, Mapplethorpe and Cindy Sherman alter both the traditional presentation of images by applying them to dinnerware, and the functionality of the dinnerware through the application of images. And finally photographic methods that physically alter the ceramic or glass structure of the dinnerware to create images through the interplay of light with the material using lithophanes or photosensitive glass.
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.
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.
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.
You can register for the free virtual presentation HERE and we will send you a link the day of the event. The link will also be posted on our website about 30 minutes before the event begins.
Image: Women in the Corning test kitchen. From the Corning Gaffer, 1946.
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.