Twenty-five years ago, when the Museum of Ceramic Art of New York (MOCA/NY) was incorporated, it became the first museum in New York City dedicated “to preserve the history of ceramics and to further its study.” The idea of starting a museum exclusively for ceramic art was the brainchild of New York ceramics collector Arthur Williams, a longtime friend and collecting cohort. With a passion for all things clay, Williams, a successful entrepreneur, had amassed a collection of American art pottery, Pennsylvania red ware, and Chinese export ware and had started collecting contemporary ceramic art. His upper west side Manhattan apartment was so ladened with objects, there was not a chair to sit on, nor a table to eat from nor a floor space through which to maneuver. The same was equally true for his home in upstate New York.