Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

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.

Ryan Coppage observes, with a nearly clinical methodology, how the central spiral visual cues of three wheel-thrown plate designs draw the viewer’s eye.

Apprenticeships with one artist in the UK and another in Japan were transformational in shaping the way potter Florian Gadsby structures his studio and practice.

A panel during the 2022 North Carolina Wood Fire Conference asked three artists to reflect on the many factors that impact their decisions in making and assessing surface.

After taking over the Goshen, Indiana, studio of Dick Lehman, Mark Goertzen continued the tradition of mentoring interns. The practice is mutually beneficial for the artists involved, and allows for productivity and growth.

After relocating to Florida, Addison Wolff found a small, private space in a communal art center to continue making handbuilt abstract sculptures with layered, textured colors.

Made of innovative bioceramic material and designed for resiliency in their surroundings, Geoship structures offer an ecologically minded alternative to traditional home building for the not-so-distant future.

Images from current and upcoming exhibitions.

Making handles can be a painstaking and frustrating part of the pottery process.

While this issue focuses on atmospheric-fired work, the artists’ mentoring, training, and rationale for using these methods to achieve a specific, personal aesthetic are central to the stories shared.