Exhibitions
Current Exhibitions:
Dining Grails
Opened November 2, 2024
One of two inaugural exhibitions at IMoDD’s new home at 524 Broadway in Kingston, New York, Dining Grails includes more than 100 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. [LINK to Dining Grails page]
Dining Memories
November 2, 2024 – August 31, 2025
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. [Link to Dining Memories page]
Upcoming Exhibition:
Picnic
The International Museum of Dinnerware Design’s Sixth Biennial Juried Exhibition
Exhibition dates: September 6, 2025 – January 17, 2026
Opening reception: Saturday, September 6, 2025, 1 – 4 p.m.
Location: The International Museum of Dinnerware Design, 524 Broadway, Kingston, NY 12401
An exhibition for artists and designers in all media exploring the theme Picnic through the creation of specialized dinnerware and related 2D or 3D work.
Juried Artists |
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| Alice Abrams Micha Bentel Donald Clark Andreia de Matos Irina-Diana Flore Francine Glasser Roberta Griffith Julianne Harvey Jeep Johnson Heather Jones Etai Klein Robin Kline |
George & Claudia Kousoulas Marina Kuchinski Cara Jean McCarthy Brad Parsons Phillip Renato Judith Salomon Charlie Smith Rebecca Stevens Prandya Venegurkar Robin Wilt Robert Rahway Zakanitch |
Invited Artists |
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| Mark Burns Myra Mimlitsch-Gray Future Retrieval – Guy Michael Davis and Katie Parker |
Beth Lo Linda Sikora Matthew Whalen |
Juror: Bryan Czibesz
About the Juror: Bryan Czibesz, is an artist and educator who is interested in the relations between materials, technology, and object histories over time. He earned his MFA from San Diego State University and BA from Humboldt State University. He has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions, lectured, and taught workshops throughout the United States and internationally, including Fondation Bernardaud in Limoges, France, the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, the Demarest Pottery Exhibition, the Nelson Atkins Museum, Greenwich House Pottery, Peters Valley School of Craft, and the Honolulu Museum of Art. He is a founding member of the Hudson Valley Pottery Tour and has been Artist-in-Residence at The International Ceramics Studio in Kecskemét, Hungary, C.R.E.T.A. Rome, The Clay Studio, Northern Clay Center, and Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts. He teaches at SUNY New Paltz.
Recent Exhibitions:
Barware
Special Pop-up Exhibition
May 22 – June 1, 2025
Opening Event: May 22 from 5:00 – 8:00 pm
IMoDD’s Barware exhibition includes international barware in the Art Deco and Mid-Century Modern eras (late 1920s-1960s+) from the Netherlands, Germany, Japan, Portugal, and France and American made glass, chrome, wood, rattan, and plastic cocktail implements and related barware.
LINK to Barware exhibition page
The Intersection Between Dining and Photography
January 18 – February 9, 2025
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.
Ongoing Virtual Exhibitions:
Playful Dining
An on-line exhibition originally scheduled to open April 30, 2024 but delayed until June 30 due to IMoDD’s relocation.
The exhibition is mostly about toy dish sets (some in their original boxes!) enjoyed by children of bygone eras, but adults had their own playful dining accessories that are included in this exhibition.
Virtual Exhibition opening December 21, 2021
We invited you to show us your wedding china. See what we received, along with some of our favorites from the IMoDD permanent collection.
Virtual Exhibition opening December 8, 2021
The International Museum of Dinnerware Design is getting out the special holiday dishes this year.
One Table Oodles of Dishes
A virtual exhibition presented by IMoDD that builds upon the premise of setting the same table, over and over, with a curated selection of beautifully designed dishes. It is left for the viewer to determine which place setting to select and to imagine what food might enhance the dining experience with each.
[LINK] to the One Table Oodles of Dishes exhibition.
Delicious Dish Distractions
A series of on-line exhibitions presented by IMoDD to showcase a fun pairing of food and dinnerware.
[Link] to Delicious Dish Distractions page