Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

After initially studying textile design in the UK, Mayumi Yamashita realized she wanted to work with materials hands-on and switched her course of study.

Over the course of 45 years, Dutch potter Corien Ridderikhoff has maintained a flexible approach to her career.

Working in themes for each firing of his wood kiln provides Naysan McIlhargey with new challenges and opportunities to explore across hundreds of pots.

After college, an apprenticeship, mentor relationships, part-time jobs, and a methodical approach to building her business helped Maya Machin to forge her path as a potter.

A craftsman-style bungalow that was turned into an industrial space is home base for Maria White’s studio practice, business, pottery lessons, and community-focused nonprofit.

Have you heard the story of the prince and princess who must shatter a magician’s spell that transformed the inhabitants of a faraway island into porcelain? Now you can experience this reimagined, allegorical tale exploring Europe’s pursuit of porcelain.

Dip glazing offers many benefits, but a key disadvantage is the volume of glaze needed to submerge the bisqueware.

Regardless of how much the sale of ceramic work contributes to your income, I hope that the stories shared in this issue shed light on the reality of life as a professional potter while encouraging you to think about what you want to get out of clay.

Information on submitting work for exhibitions, fairs, and festivals.

Images from Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

Images from Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

An exhibition of Shigaraki ware at the University of Michigan Museum of Art explores the style’s impact on diplomatic relations between the US and Japan after World War II.

Good fortune and happenstance have allowed me to surround myself with a chosen family that truly has my best interests at heart.

Give fragile ceramic sculpture its best shot at surviving transit with custom-made supports and two boxes, as outlined in this how-to article.

Efficiency and symbolism are characteristic of Kristina Batiste’s functional ceramics. Her discerning use of line and color refer to time, a juncture, and protest.

Instead of the linear way of making a sculpture from a sketch, design, or prototype, I handbuild my work part by part without a blueprint and assemble them together once I have plenty of components.

Ceramics Monthly’s 2023 Emerging Artists create innovative ceramic sculptures and vessels that captivate, challenge, and inspire their audiences. The work of these 21 artists demonstrates the strength and skill within the ceramic field today.

Makers must increasingly shoulder the responsibility to keep alive traditions of making things with the human hand and preserving the rituals surrounding the use of objects that hold intention and meaning.

Today we want to make shapes as free and miraculous as possible, and study relationships by making objects that interact with each other no matter where the form or surface will come from.

Similar to the way I move fluidly between two languages that I speak, I approach my studio practice as a form of code-switching between physical and digital work, as well as between clay and other materials such as plastic, wood, foam, and paper.