Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

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.

Andile Dyalvane and Zizipho Poswa co-founded a collaborative studio in Cape Town, South Africa. Their dynamic business focuses on individual, design, and production work, while also serving as a community hub.

A group of potters in Yellow Springs, Ohio, came together to start a retail cooperative in 1973. The membership and business have expanded, and the artists share practical insights on what makes the co-op work.

A home studio that occupies part of the original house as well as a purpose-built, connected addition provides a variety of spaces for Mette Maya Gregersen to develop the forms and surfaces of her expressive abstract sculptures.

The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has settled into its spacious, well-equipped new facility in South Kensington.

Having made and shipped a bowl destined for a wood firing in every state but one, Wyoming potter Elaine Henry has collaboratively created a grouping of unique but related vessels.

Images from current and upcoming exhibitions.

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