Whether your baby step is taken with a circle-cutting band-saw jig and some scrap counter top, or it’s an actual step through a gallery door, take it with confidence—with the knowledge that it only feels awkward because it’s your first,
and that it will teach you something, and that it will get easier very soon. Bigger steps are right around the corner. —Sherman Hall, Editor
On the cover: Bryan Hopkins’ cup set, 4.5 in. (11 cm) in height, wheel-thrown and altered porcelain, fired to cone 11 in a gas kiln, platinum luster, and cast mortar, 2011.
In This Issue
Bryan Hopkins: Dissonance and Reconciliation by Glen R. BrownExtending a Museum Exhibition’s (Out)Reach by Diana Lyn RobertsSewing Cultures Through Pottery by Lauren Karle
To Wander Out of Place by Tony MerinoPeter Shire “Cups 1974–2012: Ceramic and Steel Cups and Works on Paper” by Kathleen Whitney
Departments
Tips and Tools Exposure Letters Gallery Guide 2013 Exposure Clay Culture: Ron Nagle: Rewarding an Innovator Clay Culture: Jun Factory Life by Maggie Connolly Studio Visit: John Britt, Bakersville, North Carolina
Techno File: Casting Rheology by Jonathan Kaplan Spotlight: A Potter's Pots by Suze Lindsay