Founded in 1983, the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College presents exhibitions spanning a wide range of art. Whether historical or contemporary, exhibitions enrich the teaching of art and humanities at Scripps as well as the cultural community of Claremont and its environs. Since 1996, the Williamson Gallery has invited guest curators to organize the annual ceramics exhibition

Funding will support the 80th Ceramic Annual Catalog hosted by the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery. The Scripps College Ceramic Annual has the distinction of being the longest running ceramics exhibition in the United States. The 80th Annual will highlight works from the collections of Fred Marer and Forrest L Merill. Together, their holdings are unsurpassed embodiments of the influential story of clay that emerged out of California in the twentieth century.