Focus: Back to Work, Back to School

If you told someone it took you months to get that mug right, they may look at you as if they thought you were inept, and they might wonder why you would waste so much time at something you are clearly not very good at. Except that’s exactly how we get good, isn’t it? —Sherman Hall, Editor

On the cover: Kristen Kieffer’s small covered jars, 9 in. (23 cm) in height, wheel-thrown and altered porcelain with slip-trailed, slip-sponged, and underglaze decoration, fired to cone 7 in oxidation, 2012.

In This Issue

Departments

Letters
Exposure
Tips and Tools
Clay Culture: Ceramic Water Filters
Clay Culture: A New/Classic Spin by Cristy Bertini
Clay Culture: Wedgwoodn’t by Holly Goring
Studio Visit: Justin Teilhet, Yellow Springs, Ohio
Techno File: Boron in Glazes by Matt Katz
Spotlight: History Lesson by Michelle Erickson