FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Sandy Schuster, Pewabic Pottery Director of Development 313.626.2002 [email protected] NEW COMMUNITY GALLERY EXHIBIT AT THE DETROIT HISTORICAL MUSEUM CELEBRATES 110 YEARS OF PEWABIC POTTERY DETROIT -- Made by Hand: Detroit’s Ceramic Legacy opens this Saturday at the Detroit Historical Museum’s Community Gallery. This retrospective features the prolific history of Detroit’s ceramic icon, Pewabic Pottery. Under the direction of founder Mary Chase Perry Stratton, Pewabic Pottery produced nationally renowned vessels, tiles, architectural ornamentation for public and private installations. Works by Pewabic Pottery can be seen throughout the United States in such places as the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., the Nebraska Sate Capital, and the Science Building at Rice University in Houston. In Michigan, Pewabic installations can be found in countless churches, commercial buildings and public facilities (such as the Guardian Building, the McNamara Terminal at Detroit Metro Airport, the Detroit Public Library, Comerica Park, and Detroit People Mover stations. Pewabic Pottery can also be found in many public collections including the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Freer Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Today Pewabic is a multifaceted non-profit ceramic education institution with active and growing education, exhibition, museum and design and fabrication programs. Free and open to the public, it offers tours, demonstrations. Through this historic exhibit which runs through Sunday, January 12, 2014, Pewabic tells the story of the pottery’s role in the history of Detroit, the growth of the Arts & Crafts movement in America and development of ceramic art. The Detroit Historical Museum, located at 5401 Woodward Ave. (NW corner of Kirby) in Midtown Detroit, is open to the public Tuesday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free for all, all the time. Parking in the Museum’s lot is $5 at all times. Group tour pricing and information is available by calling 313.833.1733. Permanent exhibits include the famous Streets of Old Detroit, the Allesee Gallery of Culture, Kid Rock Music Lab, Doorway to Freedom: Detroit and the Underground Railroad, Detroit: The “Arsenal of Democracy,” Frontiers to Factories, America’s Motor City, and The Glancy Trains. For more information, call the Museum at 313.833.1805 or check out our website at detroithistorical.org. # # # .