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The recipes shared below are integral to the successful finishing of student work at Minnesota State University and have been developed to prioritize safety, reliability, and a satisfactory range of colors and surfaces.

Taking inspiration and textures from hand-embroidered textiles, Clare Unger demonstrates how she uses impressed and hump bisque molds to build delicate functional vessels.

With a peaceful workspace just minutes from home, Judd Schiffman shares how ideas of regeneration and reflection influence his process, practice, teaching, and life.

Traveling through Portugal, one is mesmerized by the gorgeous blue-and-white tile façades. Learn their history and how they made their way to the coastal country.

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Here is an easy way to make a scoring tool with only three materials: a wooden craft stick, toothpicks, and a length of sticky tape.

As I continue to work through the rationale behind this thinking, I wonder if we all, as artists, have more complex relationships with the objects, ceramic or otherwise, we’ve collected in our lives, homes, and studios.

Inspired by the convergence of the individual and the built environment, Wade MacDonald makes ceramic sculptures and vessels that incorporate numerous materials and layered methods of fabrication.

Helsinki-based ceramic artist Armi Teva approaches art making with curiosity and a penchant for drawing and illustration. She discusses her thriving practices, from the studio to strategies for marketing, and more.

Inspired by other artists’ homes, Renee LoPresti created an environment where home and studio tasks like throwing, decorating, cooking, and gardening flow together seamlessly and with intention.

Caroline Slotte reworks antique and secondhand ceramic objects using sculptural techniques like masking and sandblasting processes. The resulting works convey an unexpected, heightened sense of materiality.

In order to make space in her work for play, Amy Sanders works on multiple iterations of a form at once. Here, Sanders demonstrates how she assembles wheel-thrown parts to create dynamic, organic pitchers.

Despite challenges, Rochelle Chinnery found creative grounding during her C.R.E.T.A. residency in Rome and offers practical advice for future residents to stay flexible, explore deeply, and embrace the unexpected.

Rooted in the material and metaphorical dimensions of the street, Kahlil Robert Irving’s ceramic installations examine Black urban life, historical trauma, and systemic power through works that combine personal narratives with political commentary.

Delve into the careful balance of materials and firing conditions required to create a clay body with optimal plasticity, strength, and glaze compatibility.

Working with a set of communal studio glazes can feel limiting. With this method for double dipping, Erick Howenstine demonstrates how to turn 12 glaze options into 144.

The recipes below are made and used by Amy Sanders to created dynamic forms with soft, subtle surfaces at two temperature ranges, low fire and mid range.