Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

Helsinki-based ceramic artist Armi Teva approaches art making with curiosity and a penchant for drawing and illustration. She discusses her thriving practices, from the studio to strategies for marketing, and more.

Inspired by other artists’ homes, Renee LoPresti created an environment where home and studio tasks like throwing, decorating, cooking, and gardening flow together seamlessly and with intention.

Caroline Slotte reworks antique and secondhand ceramic objects using sculptural techniques like masking and sandblasting processes. The resulting works convey an unexpected, heightened sense of materiality.

In order to make space in her work for play, Amy Sanders works on multiple iterations of a form at once. Here, Sanders demonstrates how she assembles wheel-thrown parts to create dynamic, organic pitchers.

Despite challenges, Rochelle Chinnery found creative grounding during her C.R.E.T.A. residency in Rome and offers practical advice for future residents to stay flexible, explore deeply, and embrace the unexpected.

Rooted in the material and metaphorical dimensions of the street, Kahlil Robert Irving’s ceramic installations examine Black urban life, historical trauma, and systemic power through works that combine personal narratives with political commentary.

Delve into the careful balance of materials and firing conditions required to create a clay body with optimal plasticity, strength, and glaze compatibility.

Working with a set of communal studio glazes can feel limiting. With this method for double dipping, Erick Howenstine demonstrates how to turn 12 glaze options into 144.

The recipes below are made and used by Amy Sanders to created dynamic forms with soft, subtle surfaces at two temperature ranges, low fire and mid range.

Deadlines for exhibitions, fairs, and festivals

This year, our readership-wide contest, Function Focused, shares all manner of vessels specially created for use.

Though often overshadowed by metal currency, ceramic coins have played a significant role throughout history serving purposes ranging from legal tender and religious rituals to collectibles and commemorative tokens.

Inspired by real-life events, Anne Koszalka took on the task of creating hundreds of narrative tiles with painting and sgraffito techniques for the illustrations of a book on one dog’s adoption journey.

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

Welcome to the September issue of Ceramics Monthly! With this curated collection of articles and information, I invite you to consider clay for its materiality.

Deadlines for exhibitions, fairs, and festivals.

Holly Walker’s career in clay spans nearly five decades. Currently, she creates earthenware vessels with bold, vibrant color blocking and patterning from her Vermont studio.

Ani Kasten came from a creative family, traveled to pursue ceramic studies and an apprenticeship, and has fostered relationships within her local and ceramics communities to the benefit of her practice, now located in Shafer, Minnesota.