Highlights from Rick Dillingham: To Make, Unmake, and Make Again

A prominent fixture in the Santa Fe arts community, Rick Dillingham was a scholar, author, collector, curator, dealer, and ceramic artist who was firmly grounded in the tradition and canon of Southwest ceramics. After his death in 1994 due to complications from AIDS, Dillingham’s collection of ceramic artworks was distributed across multiple institutions in central New Mexico and the United States, with some of his works being homed as far as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, United Kingdom.