Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

  • Techno File: Iron in Celadons
    There are many types of iron available to use in glazes. Learn how much to use and with which materials to create a great celadon/chün glaze.
  • 🎧 Ernest Miller: Restraint by Design
    Considerations for the technical, material, and practical guide the design decisions in Ernest Miller’s wheel-thrown and altered pottery.
  • 🎧 Inspiration Through Experience
    Travels to Japan, Finland, and France after completing university in the UK proved to be instructional and influential for Michelle Freemantle’s practice making functional pottery.
  • 🎧 emmanuel boos: The Poetics of Glaze
    Based in Mannheim, Germany, ceramic artist emmanuel boos creates balanced compositions of slip-cast and altered porcelain bricks and cobblestones. Each installation recalls rhythm and cadence through color, arrangement, and gesture.
  • 🎧 Cultivating Networks
    The Consortium for Intercollegiate Research in the Ceramic Arts (CIRCA) is a newly established exchange and networking program between six university graduate programs.
  • 🎧 The Undressed Art: Wally Schwab’s Black Ceramics
    In a new and distinct body of work, Wally Schwab explores the possibilities of depth and subtlety in matte-black glazed surfaces of platters and vessels.
  • Studio Visit: Audra Doughty, Linglestown, Pennsylvania
    In a practice split between her basement home studio and the community clay space she owns and operates, Mud Queen Pottery, Audra Doughty creates functional pottery decorated with high-contrast, vibrant motifs.
  • Clay Culture: Preserving Knowledge
    The Memory of Mankind project endeavors to safe keep histories and information for future generations. Engraved ceramic tablets and tokens lend the inherent archival quality of vitrified clay to this effort.
  • Exposure: January 2024
    Images from Current and Upcoming Exhibitions.
  • Quick Tip: Jewelry Tree for Glaze Firing
    When I first began creating ceramic jewelry, having the backs of my pieces glazed was important to me, particularly for earrings.
  • From the Editor: January 2024
    The artists in this issue who describe their own journeys of learning through clay have diverse backgrounds in terms of formal education, experiential development, and how they presently interface with the community.
  • Studio Visit: Glynnis Lessing, Northfield, Minnesota
    Returning to her grandfather’s farm, Glynnis Lessing embraced the opportunities to forge connections within her community, reconnect with family history, and take inspiration from her lush surroundings.
  • Recipes: Carved Surfaces
    This issue’s Studio Visit artist Glynnis Lessing uses the following reliable slip and glaze recipes to develop highcontrast, carved imagery on vessels.
  • Exposure: December 2023
    Images from Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
  • 🎧 Lindsay Rogers: A Place at the Table
    Lindsay Rogers explores the “ground-to-ground” connection of her practice to our agricultural and food-consumption systems using functional wares bearing botanical shadows of local plants.
  • 🎧 Zoë Powell: A Natural Fit
    Utilizing local clay and unencumbered surfaces, Zoë Powell’s handbuilt ceramic vessels echo the raw beauty found in nature and a consideration for the environmental impact of her practice.
  • Tips and Tools: Thrifted Mold Set
    Expand and streamline your handbuilding production process by making inexpensive hump molds with pottery plaster and secondhand vessels.
  • 🎧 From Medicine to Pottery
    A change in focus while at school in the 1960s cemented Mike Dodd’s pursuit of pottery. His decades-long career has heavily featured establishing potteries, building kilns, teaching, and making simple pots.
  • 🎧 Liz Pechacek: Line, Labor, Value
    Applying a printmaker’s approach to process, Liz Pechacek creates structure for her creative exploration and imbues within the walls of her work time, layered labor, and the value of the hand.