Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

After deciding to pursue a career in ceramics, Tracie Hervy set about making that vision a reality. Now that’s she’s gained a market for her pots, the next big challenge is achieving a work-life balance.

Apprenticeships in Nigeria and Ghana helped Winnie Owens-Hart to explore beyond the Asian and European ceramic traditions taught in universities in the 1970s.

A belief that diminutively scaled objects can convey important ideas and a dedication to impeccable craftsmanship and detail led Richard Notkin to study and collect Yixing teapots.

Combining forms that echo observations of shapes and objects tied to specific places, Syd Carpenter creates sculptural assemblages that address experiences and express the importance of heritage and family.

Susan Feagin’s handbuilt vessels have evolved over the years, but they consistently combine her love of letter writing, printmaking, and color exploration. The layered vessels find purpose throughout a home.

Renting a workspace in a building shared with other small businesses and artists in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, provides an exciting energy for Laura Casas’ studio practice and business.

Images from Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

To avoid annoying glaze drips and tong marks on the outside of pots, I use neodymium magnets to hold pots while dipping them in glazes.

They are masters in our field, and the articles by or about each artist delve into the sources of their creativity and motivation to continue exploring.

In an effort to provide shelter to endangered African penguins, researchers have fabricated and installed nesting boxes made of ceramic material at their breeding sites.

Katherine Frank and students over six semesters of ceramics courses created a massive tile installation inspired by Pablo Picasso’s Guernica.

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

Whether you are applying a terra sigillata or a glaze to your surfaces, where the inspiration comes from for the color, the sheen, or the texture, can make all the difference in the personal value of the final piece.

Upcycle pencils, dowels, and one-sided tools into custom silicone shaping tools that perfectly suit your forms.

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.