This is the Everson
A Museum
of Firsts.

Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to touch history through Adelaide Alsop Robineau’s delicately carved Scarab Vase? Thanks to the ingenuity of Budmen Industries, a 3D printed replica is now displayed next to the original masterpiece, for visitors to experience hands-on....

with baseball bats and crowbars and piercing them with arrows. Despite the violence that runs through his work, Craste has a great passion for historical porcelain. Working with porcelain allows Craste to explore the prestige and power of upper-class society, but also inequality and the strain that is placed on working people....

In the early 1970s, the Pattern & Decoration Movement emerged as an antidote to the vice grip in which abstraction had held American art since the 1950s. Artists like Valerie Jaudon, Joyce Kozloff, and Miriam Shapiro began juxtaposing colors and patterns that critics and artists alike had previously dismissed as feminine to powerful effect. Simultaneously, other feminist artists like Lynda Benglis were consciously subverting clay’s associations as a masculine and/or craft medium. ...

Drawing from the Everson’s collection, Lessons in Geometry traces the evolution of hard-edge abstraction in the United States as artists sought to use pure geometric forms to create works with balance, harmony, and order....