Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

  • Clay Culture: Geochemistry Insights
    Despite the expansive geographical reach of their civilization, the Peruvian Wari people (600–1000 CE) were unified by the ceramic wares they produced, used, and traded—both locally and globally.
  • Call for Entries: December 2023
    Deadlines for exhibitions, fairs, and festivals.
  • Techno File: Glaze Fit and Fault
    Heat and clay-body compatibility contribute to common glaze issues in the studio. Learn how testing and minor adjustments to your recipes or firing schedules can reduce crazing, crawling, pinholing, and more.
  • 🎧 Ashlyn Pope: Ties and Bonds
    With sculpted cords reminiscent of basketry and accents of haint blue, the brown stoneware vessels that Ashlyn Pope creates find inspiration from and connection with her Gullah ancestry.
  • 🎧 Kelly Austin: Earth Standing Still
    Kelly Austin’s still-life compositions playfully balance her penchant for exploring undeveloped places with the order and refinement of midcentury design.
  • Quick Tip: Handle Attachment with Painter’s Tape
    Despite my best efforts to secure them using the traditional methods of slipping and scoring, I’ve encountered issues with attachments coming undone.
  • From the Editor: December 2023
    The artists featured in this issue who regularly use iron-rich clay bodies in their practices cite specific connotative and pragmatic reasons for their choice of clay.
  • Spotlight: Clay in Conversation
    Ben Carter, The Red Clay Rambler himself, speaks of the power of conversational connection, studio motivation, and the future of the Brickyard Network podcasts.
  • Spotlight: Sense of Celebration
    Kiran Joan combines visual inspiration from the natural world and a uniquely illustrative lens in pieces that explore personal narratives.
  • Call for Entries: November 2023
    Information on submitting work for exhibitions, fairs, and festivals.
  • Recipes: Soft Surfaces
    Jeffrey Lipton shares the recipes he uses to achieve colorful, terra sigillata surfaces on his functional forms. Marissa Childers shares her recipes for stronger handbuilding and spraying glaze for a dynamic surface.
  • Tips and Tools: Space and Light
    To prepare for a new body of work, it’s beneficial to ensure your studio space is equipped with enough space and light.
  • Techno File: Controlling Shino
    The wide variety of surface characteristics that shino glazes produce can be both joyous and heartbreaking. Discover how you can focus on a set number of variables to gain more control over your shino-glazed surfaces.
  • 🎧 Review: From the Other Side
    In the exhibition, “We come from the other side,”ceramic artists Katrine Køster Holst, Máret Ánne Sara, Ahmed Umar, and Lin Wang examine historical conflicts and developments as seen in light of the complex ways in which communities are formed today.
  • 🎧 Atelier Tréma: The Road to Serendipity
    Marie-Joël Turgeon and Jordan Lentink established a café-boutique and pottery studio in Bedford, Quebec. In order to streamline processes and meet demand, they utilize slip casting and jigger-jollying in creating minimal, hearty vessels.
  • 🎧 Puff Plates
    Taking inspiration from fabric and sewing, Marissa Childers shares her process for handbuilding a plate with a voluminous rim. Textured slabs and layers of surface patterning allude to the interior design of domestic spaces.
  • 🎧 Beauty and Transcendence: The Artistry of Charlie Olson
    After years of teaching, Charlie Olson finds himself engrossed in a second career where his rigorous practice is less about intense control and more about interaction and play.
  • 🎧 In the Middle: The Changing Face of Kyungmin Park
    Kyungmin Park creates figurative sculpture that investigates the experience of being an outsider—particularly since the pandemic and the rise in racism and violence aimed at the AAPI community—through common experiences and potent symbolism.
  • 🎧 Joanna Powell’s Immersive Installations
    Joanna Powell’s ceramic objects are sensitive renderings of personal histories and complex ideas. Elements like selfportraits, flowers and vases, and furniture and rugs converge in scenes that grant viewers the opportunity to absorb and explore.