Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

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Sarah Anderson subverts the refined connotations of porcelain tableware by applying multiple underglazes and carving sgraffito imagery of the much maligned but impressively tenacious sewer rat in its urban environment.

George Petrides employs the immediacy of clay to create intimately scaled, gestural sculptures whose inspirations include Greek art history—a source that is rich as well as personal.

Working with translucent porcelain has been a decades-long pursuit for Curtis Benzle, who discusses how he got started, what he has learned, and why and how he uses the material.

Recognizing a movement in the ceramics field, Wade MacDonald organized a juried exhibition of interdisciplinary ceramic artists at the Clay Center of New Orleans.

A converted double-car garage and kiln room provide ample studio space for Lissa Claassens’ multiple bodies of work as well as for her numerous students. Organization and multipurpose spaces are key.

This year marks Carbondale Clay Center’s 25th anniversary. In that time, it has developed and expanded into a fixture of the community—both locally and in the field.

Seeking alternative venues that spoke to the subject matter explored in her sculptures, Kimberly Chapman made connections with a former asylum to exhibit a body of work titled Eighty-Six Reasons.

Kate Marotz shares the benefits of building a collection of ceramic pieces made by other potters and artists. The use of these pots brings joy to her day and guidance for her own work.

Images from Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

If you have ever made your own glaze-test batches, you’ve probably been frustrated by how much the glaze splatters when you mix it.

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.