On the Cover: Winning Stoneware from the 6th Annual Michiana Ceramics Exhibition

Charlene Fisher of Michigan won a merit award for her 7½ inch gray and tan stoneware bottle with a brown line decoration. Another award went to Johnnie Gould of Ohio for a 13½ inch stoneware vase with a tan unglazed background and a gray glazed angular decoration.

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Enameler's Column by Kathe Berl

Teacher's Pet: Balloon Molds for Slip Casting by Reinhold P. Marxhausen

Underglaze: 3 Wise Men—A Christmas Motif demonstrated by Marc Bellaire

Fun with Apple Molds by Betse Lewis

Figures From Firebrick by Edris Eckhardt

Carving Wheel-Thrown Pottery by Tom Sellers

Strictly Stoneware: Learning about Glazes (Part 2) by F. Carlton Ball

Enameling: Champleve by Kenneth F. Bates

Copper Wire for Surface Decoration by Allan A. Eastman

Overglaze Notebook by Zena Holst

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