Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

An organization in Albuquerque, New Mexico, gives young artists a chance to learn how to plan, make, and install large-scale mosaics that simultaneously relate meaningful stories and beautify buildings around the region.

This global database connects kiln owners with those needing to fire their work. Currently boasting 250 kilns, the list is constantly growing.

Images from Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

Have you ever broken the lid to a fully finished teapot and needed to make a replacement? If you simply measure the lid with calipers, the measurement won’t be accurate.

In this issue, we focus on artists who center community in their studio practice and their lives.

Want to try a different firing type or learn some new techniques? A summer workshop might be just the thing. Check them out in our annual guide.

Malcolm Mobutu Smith discusses how teaching, improvisation, and a hunger for knowledge inspire him. He also shares his belief in the positive impact that maintaining connections can have throughout an artist’s career.

Deadlines for exhibitions, fairs, and festivals.

These high-fire shino, slip, and glaze recipes work well in atmospheric kilns (soda, salt, and wood).

There are many ways to add various types of sodium to a firing kiln. Discover the processes and preferences of several artists.

For those interested in high-fired ceramics with atmospheric surfaces, it’s not only important to know how fuel-fired kilns heat ware to high temperatures, but also how to create and manage reduction in a kiln.

Mosaics—pictorial and made of tile, and conceptual as emblematic of culture and complexity—serve as the visual language through which ceramic artist Gökden Alpman Matthews creates highly decorative vessels and sculptures.

From his decision to pursue ceramics to his choice to use local earthenware clay in his work and classroom, Walter Ostrom has purposefully merged his social and political beliefs with his art practice.

Over a 45-year career, potter and educator Jane Shellenbarger has traveled, studied, absorbed, and inspired. Her philosophy on teaching grants students the room to find their own solutions, as their questions and curiosity steer each course.

A pioneer in contemporary raku techniques in Britain, David Roberts has spent his career investigating and sharing the expressive possibilities of painting with smoke.

Dan Anderson creates architecturally inspired, iconic ceramic vessels that reference the industrial-age buildings and company logos common in mid-century Midwestern landscapes.

Lalese Stamps recently moved to a new studio that provides the space she needs to scale up her business, allows her to contribute to the local arts culture and community, and also brings her closer to family.

Warping during firings doesn’t have to be a negative outcome. Hortense Le Ferrand is studying ways to mimic internal plant architecture in clay to create forms that change shape dynamically and predictably when fired.

Images from Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

At the glaze phase of some small pinched forms I recently made, I wanted to be able to consistently and efficiently keep my stable, satin glaze just a hair above the bottom edge of each piece.