The Orton Cone Box Show is a biennial

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exhibition for small work that started in

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, United States and is now held in

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, United States. It is open to submissions from across the world. The show's title is taken from the constraint on submissions, which must fit within the box in which Orton's

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s are shipped, 3" x 3" x 6" (approx. 75 mm x 75 mm x 150 mm.) Submissions are adjudicated by up to four recognized members of the ceramics community within the United States, and exhibited during following year's the conference of the US

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Dates & locations

1975,

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1977,

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1979, University of Kansas
1994,

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1996, Baker University
1998, Baker University
2000, Baker University
2002, Baker University
2004, Baker University
2006, Baker University
2008, Baker University
2010,

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Lawrence Arts Center "Past Exhibitions, 2010"
2012, Lawrence Arts Center
2016, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri
2018, Bracker’s Good Earth Clays,

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, Kansas
2020, Bracker’s Good Earth Clays,

, Kansas

Shows from the 1990s

The show experienced a period of inactivity following the departure of Bill Bracker from Kansas University shortly after the third show. In 1993 Inge Balch, Professor of Art at Baker University, Kansas, asked Bracker for his blessing to revive the show. With the support of both Orton and the University the fourth show opened in 1994 at the Holt-Russell Gallery at

. Work from potters from several countries have been exhibited. Subsequently the Cone Box Show has become a biennial event.

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External links

International Cone Box Show
Art biennials American pottery Baker University