Jim Kraft, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle WA, May 17-June 4.

Akio Takamori, Marylhurt University, Marylhurst OR, to May 3.

Walter B. Stephen: Potter of Distinction, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville NC, to June 11.

Great Pots: The Vessel as Art, 1900-2000, The UBS Art Gallery, New York NY, to May 19, ceramic works from the collection of The Newark Museum.

Bennett Bean and Cheryl Ann Thomas, Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe NM, to May 8.

Steven Montgomery, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO, to May 21.

Richard Bresnahan, Chuck Hindes, Ron Myers, Grand Hand Gallery, St. Paul MN, May 9-June 17, 2006.

Landscape: Allusions in Clay, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit MI, to May 12.

Casas Grandes and the Ceramic Art of the Ancient Southwest, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, April 22-August 13, 2006.

Tales from the Kiln: Contemporary Ceramics, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose CA, to July 9.

A Ceramic Legacy: Selections from the Stéphane Janssen and R. Michael Johns Collection, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe AZ, to August 5.

Poetic Expressions of Mortality: Figurative Ceramics from the Porter-Price Collection, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile AL, April 14-July 23, 2006.