International Academy of Ceramics (IAC)

Academia Internacional de la Ceramica
Académie internationale de la céramique (AIC)

Contact Details

Main address: SG: Anja Seiler, c/o Musée Ariana, Ave de la Paix 10, CH-1202, Geneva, Switzerland, Tel: (41 22) 418 5476, Fax: (41 22) 418 5451, E-mail: info (at) aic-iac.org

URL: http://www.aic-iac.org/

Aims

Encourage cultural cooperation among ceramists throughout the world; facilitate communication between ceramists and museum curators, experts, connoisseurs, amateurs, cultural institutions and associations; stimulate interest in and promotion of ceramic art; support the work of living ceramist artists.

Official Relations

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)^* (Consultative Status).

Activities

Organizes exhibitions, symposia and cultural exchanges.

Publications

Céramique. Reports of meetings (available for members only).

Members

Individual, Collective and Honorary. Members (475) in 52 countries and territories:

• Kenya, Niger, South Africa, Tunisia.

• Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Jamaica, Martinique^*, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Puerto Rico^*, United States of America, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of).

• China, Israel, Japan, Republic of Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Taiwan/China.

• Australia, New Zealand.

• Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

UNESCO NGO Section Data

Type of Relation with UNESCOConsulatative Status

Reclassification date2004

Programme sector: EDNo

Programme sector: SCNo

Programme sector: SHSNo

Programme sector: CLTYes

Programme sector: CIINo

Programme sector: BSPNo

Programme sector: AFRNo

Name and contact details of NGO focal point at UNESCOM. Vencatachellum I.
CLT/ACE/ACD

History1953 Foundation 1958 Consultative arrangements with UNESCO 1962 Category C 1996 Postpone decision (149 EX/ONG.2) (149 EX/Dec. 7.3) 1998 Informal Relations - Development of relations on an ad hoc (informal) basis at this stage. (154 EX/ONG.2) (154 EX/Dec. 7.3) 2004 Operational Relations (170 EX/29) (170 EX/Dec.8.2)

Contribution to UNESCO's programmes Admitted to consultative relations in 1958 and then to the former category C in 1962, the Academy has been a UNESCO partner for many years. After the adoption of the 1995 NGO Directives and the subsequent reclassification exercise, relations with the Academy were placed on an informal basis in 1998 because cooperation had weakened with the passage of time. Since 1998 cooperation has strengthened noticeably, in particular through the Academy’s representative’s active participation in all the collective activities of NGOs maintaining official relations with UNESCO, such as collective consultations, joint programme commissions, international NGO conferences held in the 1998-2004 period, and its participation in sessions of the UNESCO General Conference during that period. Substantive and regular working relations have developed in recent years, in particular with the Culture Sector under the crafts and design programme. Like UNESCO, the Academy is a partner of the international festival of films on ceramics held every two years in Montpellier (France) by the Ateliers d’Art de France (most recent festival held in March 2004). In view of the Academy’s efforts to broaden its geographic coverage and the growth of UNESCO’s activities in the field of ceramics, the Culture Sector strongly recommends the reestablishment of official relations with this NGO.

Keywords Art

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