Talk with Jo Lauria, juror for Collectors Choice 2021. Watch the recording of the talk here.

Jo Lauria is a Los Angeles-based curator, author, and educator who received her curatorial training at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She is a specialist in the fields of craft, design, and decorative arts.

Lauria is the organizer of many museum-based surveys and national touring exhibitions and has authored more than sixteen major publications in her field. She received the 2016 American Ceramic Circle Book Award for Ralph Bacerra: Exquisite Beauty, and the Silver Muse Award from the American Association of Museums for the documentary Color and Fire (2000).

Currently, Lauria is the Adjunct Curator of the American Museum of Ceramic Art (Pomona, CA) and is completing a monograph on modernist architect William F. Cody with coauthors Catherine Cody and Dr. Don Choi (Monacelli Press, June 2021).