Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

Factory-set firing schedules are valuable tools, but learning to customize your kiln firing schedule can help you fire more efficiently, create special glaze effects, and prevent unwanted cracking.

After struggling to find a building style that clicked, Michael Griffin makes casual handbuilt pots finished with terra sigillata.

Aileen Barr and Colette Crutcher create large-scale, vibrant murals composed of thousands of tiles and mosaic pieces. You can find their work enlivening public spaces all around the San Francisco region.

Pulling from poetry, art history, and symbolism, Minneapolis-based artist Katayoun Amjadi creates multitudinous installations.

Andile Dyalvane and Zizipho Poswa co-founded a collaborative studio in Cape Town, South Africa. Their dynamic business focuses on individual, design, and production work, while also serving as a community hub.

A group of potters in Yellow Springs, Ohio, came together to start a retail cooperative in 1973. The membership and business have expanded, and the artists share practical insights on what makes the co-op work.

A home studio that occupies part of the original house as well as a purpose-built, connected addition provides a variety of spaces for Mette Maya Gregersen to develop the forms and surfaces of her expressive abstract sculptures.

The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has settled into its spacious, well-equipped new facility in South Kensington.

Having made and shipped a bowl destined for a wood firing in every state but one, Wyoming potter Elaine Henry has collaboratively created a grouping of unique but related vessels.

Images from current and upcoming exhibitions.

To alleviate perfection stress, I start my studio day with a warm-up piece and a cup of tea.

This issue focuses on the business aspects of a ceramic artist’s career, from the perspectives of individuals in the field.

Alex and Connie Matisse and John Vigeland formed a vision of their ideal business in 2013. The result, East Fork Pottery, is a direct-to-consumer, large-scale production pottery.

The 2023 Residencies and Fellowships

Interest in her ancestor, potter David Hartzog, led Raine Middleton to sign up for pottery lessons. Now a few decades into her career, she has developed a singular aesthetic, focused on visual and tactile memory.

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

These recipes work well by themselves and layered together, particularly in soda-fired reduction atmospheres, to achieve rich, functional surfaces.

It’s critical to take care of your most important tools—your hands. Stretches, lotion, and more are advised for longevity.

We continue our look at refractory materials and discover the properties and differences of insulating kiln bricks and insulating ceramic fibers.

An exhibition at Annely Juda Fine Art in London, England, paired teabowls by Raku Kichizaemon with nonobjective works by Kazimir Malevich in order to explore perceptions of line, form, and color.