Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

Sparked by family heirlooms, Eric Ordway’s research into Norwegian folk-art objects generated the development of his ale bowls. Ordway shows how he approaches throwing and altering these longship-inspired vessels.

Broad Studios Club House’s co-founder demonstrates how floor darts and a squeeze can create a non-circular dish right on the wheel.

Using a narrow palette and embracing the frenetic atmosphere of a wood/soda kiln, Ben Eberle’s work breathes and contracts with gestural swelling and impressed textures and lines.

During cold Minnesota winters, radiant-heated floors and its proximity to home keep Kate Scherfenberg and Sean Scott’s studio warm and bustling.

At San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, this exhibition spotlights a new generation of Japanese artists—many of them women—who are shaping the future of clay through bold, inventive works while honoring the ceramic traditions of the past.

Organic, lyrical ribbons wrap and intricately slip-trailed surfaces cover Carol Long’s nature-inspired vessels. Dynamic negative space, built with functional and non-functional handles, makes her volumetric forms feel light and rich.

When met with the successes and logistical challenges of the Michiana Pottery Tour, the participating artists created the Northern Indiana Clay Alliance to organize and manage their expanding needs.

Similar to a skyscraper, EcoTech Lab utilizes vertical space to bring efficient agricultural production, smart design, and fresh produce to densely populated cities via their modular ClayPonic system.

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

The clay body, slip, and glaze recipes listed below yield surfaces that are reliable and variable when fired in atmospheric kilns like wood and soda.

The following recipes, shared along with his process article, allow Eric Ordway to achieve vibrant color, flashing effects, and reliable functional surfaces out of wood and soda kilns.

Deadlines for exhibitions, fairs, and festivals.

Although Betsy Hinze-Heart’s workspace may look non-traditional and physical limitations have changed her relationship to food, her commitment to creating meal-centered, functional forms remains.

Exploring how variables like saturation, temperature, and atmosphere affect color within your kiln can bring understanding to an at times unpredictable part of the finishing process.

Functional ceramics inspire whole careers and lifelong pursuits in art, ever-growing collaborative events, material innovation to solve problems large and small, hyperfocused exploration of singular forms, and more.

Garlic and ginger graters are highly sought-after ceramic products, but I wanted to fasten the production process. To construct a simple tool, I rushed to my kids’ toy box.

Out of a large, two-part studio in a subsidized building of artists’ workspaces, Kala Stein creates ceramic objects and installations at a range of scales, from the home to commissions for public spaces.

Pulling influence from traditional moon jars and veering off into a direction decidedly her own, Jane Yang D’Haene makes vibrant, expressive vessels in a practice marked by organization and goal setting.