[6] In 2010, Armstrong purchased a two-story building, the former headquarters of Pomona First Federal Savings and Loan, which was designed by Benjamin Hall Anderson in 1956.

While at AMOCA, Johnson was involved with the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time initiative, producing a critically acclaimed exhibition, Common Ground: Ceramics in Southern California (1945-1975), and book of the same title.

[citation needed] In 1993, he earned his Master of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in ceramics from Claremont Graduate School studying with Paul Soldner.

[13] Robert Wilson, born in Southern California, started collecting at the age of thirteen from antique shops on Sepulveda Blvd in Los Angeles.

Colette Wilson, raised in Southern California, was instrumental in starting the Royal Worcester collection of ceramics that the pair also donated to AMOCA.

"[citation needed] The building was previously the site of a former bank, Pomona First Federal, that commissioned Millard Sheets along with his frequent collaborator Susan Lautmann Hertel to create a 78-foot mural for the interior.

[15] Sheets and Hertel depicted the history of the valley from the time of Native American inhabitants to the arrival of the railroad and the incorporation of Pomona in 1888.

[7] Sheets, an art professor and prolific public muralist, created works for commercial and governmental buildings many in Los Angeles County.

[17][18] Other exhibitions have included artwork by Peter Voulkos, Betty Woodman, Beatrice Wood, Chris Gustin, Tim Berg & Rebekah Myers, Lisa Reinertson, Rebekah Bogard, Betty Davenport Ford, Connie Layne, Jamie Bardsley,[24] Don Reitz,[25] Marguerite Wildenhain,[11] Peter Callas,[26] and Viola Frey.