Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

In this issue, we focus on people who curate, study, and collect ceramics and the many types of venues that showcase ceramics.

Making artwork helps Salvador Jiménez-Flores continue his search for identity as a bicultural, bilingual person. It also provides a way to explore complex topics including migration, colonization, immigration, and futurism.

Virgil Ortiz uses materials and processes that have been handed down for centuries. Working in a variety of formats, he strives to educate viewers on the history of the Pueblo Revolt and Pueblo art and culture.

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

Mark Arnold shares the recipe for terra sigillata that he uses to create the colorful, patterned surfaces on his work, the majolica recipe he uses as a liner glaze, and the magic water recipe he uses for joining attachments.

For a truly custom and functional workspace, inset your potter’s wheel into a table surface to keep buckets, tools, and works in progress close at hand.

Interested in expanding on the glaze chemistry and firing techniques associated with crystalline pottery? Try acid-etching the colorants from surface crystals to create curious silver effects.

This year, our readership-wide contest features selected work from ceramic artists inspired by those things critical and essential—from everyday routines, to the visual foundations of art and design, to the earth and its forces.

Finding parallels between BMX and clay while taking constant inspiration from the landscapes around him, Mark Arnold creates handbuilt vessels that tell stories through their construction and the abstracted patterns on their surfaces.

Making artwork helps Salvador Jiménez-Flores continue his search for identity as a bicultural, bilingual person. It also provides a way to explore complex topics including migration, colonization, immigration, and futurism.

A lifelong focus on observing and interacting with animals and a desire to convey the feelings experienced while viewing the living animal have influenced Tina Curry’s figurative ceramic sculptures.

Kat West’s experience working in healthcare, her upbringing as an immigrant, and a move to a new community as an adult led her to explore questions of identity and kinship in her thrown and handbuilt earthenware forms.

A formerly dilapidated garage has been transformed into an efficient studio space where Cybèle Beaudoin-Pilon works with earthenware to create colorful, functional works that explore her interest in reclaiming things that are not valued.

To celebrate the Potters Guild of Ann Arbor’s 70th anniversary, guild members collaborated on a series of sculptures, which were exhibited at the University of Michigan’s Matthaei Botanical Gardens.

The Brick Industry Association recognizes extraordinary clay-brick structures with the Brick in Architecture Awards. Learn more about the types of innovative projects that won the 2021 awards.

Images from Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

I have made custom promotional mugs (including 130 that a local company used as employee holiday gifts), spoon rests, and other products for local businesses and an online store.

As you explore the vessels, sculptures, and installations presented on these pages, take the time to ask yourself about how materials and meaning are intertwined in your own work.

Dick Lehman shares how recent collaborations have provided insights on his work and new creative opportunities.

deadlines for exhibitions, fairs, and festivals