Pomona
— — the valley named for the goddess of fruit.
Not only on a wall.
“Pomona sits east of Los Angeles, where the San Gabriel and Pomona valleys meet at the foot of the mountains. The city took its name from the Roman goddess of orchards, planted by the early settlers who turned the wash into citrus groves. The fairgrounds and the antique row are still here. So is the long arc of the San Gabriels above the rooftops, sharper after a winter rain.
Pomona, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
Pomona lies in eastern Los Angeles County, about fifty kilometres east of downtown Los Angeles and at the western edge of the Pomona Valley. Incorporated in 1888, the city now holds roughly 150,000 people across thirty-eight square kilometres. The San Gabriel Mountains rise sharply to the north, with the 3,068-metre peak of Mount San Antonio (Mount Baldy) visible from most of the older grid. The Fairplex, home of the Los Angeles County Fair since 1922, sits on the city's northwestern edge.
The Los Angeles County Fair has run at the Fairplex grounds in Pomona since 1922 and is among the largest county fairs in the United States, drawing more than a million people across its September-to-October run. The 487-acre Fairplex also hosts the NHRA Winternationals drag races and Los Angeles County's longstanding wine competition. For much of the twentieth century the fair was the social calendar's anchor for the citrus towns across the valley.
Downtown Pomona's Arts Colony runs along Second Street, where Antique Row holds more than two hundred dealers across a few blocks of late-Victorian and early-twentieth-century storefronts. The dA Center for the Arts has anchored the district since 1990, and the second Saturday of each month brings the long-running art walk through the colony. A few blocks south, the campus of Cal Poly Pomona occupies what was once the winter ranch of the cereal magnate W. K. Kellogg, whose Arabian horses are still bred and shown on the grounds.