Pottery Lovers Symposium
Join us in celebrating our region’s rich pottery heritage with an exciting series of lectures at the annual Pottery Lovers Show and Sale. Learn more about the world-famous local pottery manufacturers and the people behind them with friendly and knowledgeable guest speakers.
Rookwood Pottery 1915-1935: When Artistry and Technology Cross Paths with Riley Humler
Riley was the auction coordinator for Cincinnati Art Galleries and Humler & Nolan for over 30 years and is now a Midwest representative for Toomey & Company, a part of Rago-Wright-Toomey-LA Modern, specializing in American and European Pottery and Porcelain.
Currently President of the American Art Pottery Association, Humler has written several articles for the AAPA Journal, mostly dealing with Rookwood Pottery and related subjects. He is an avid collector of Rookwood and Twentieth Century American art.
He has been a 23 year appraiser on Antiques Roadshow for both Pottery and Art.
Humler lives in Cincinnati with his wife of 35 years and is the Father of 5 and Grandfather of 9. Skip, Humler’s Pit Bull-Lab mix, is part of the family and functions as his complaint department.
Wednesday, July 9, 2 pm, at the Holiday Inn Express in Zanesville. Registration encouraged by July 8, 2025.
ZMA Talks are Generously supported by the Ohio Arts Council and the Taylor-McHenry Memorial Foundation
