Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

The 2021 Strictly Functional Pottery National jurors Margaret Kinkeade, Roberto Lugo, and Brooks Oliver share what they looked for when selecting work for inclusion in the exhibition.

Made from ceramic components and a custom-fabricated steel structure, Dan Ingersoll’s public sculpture reflects the character of its site in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Writer Mike Middleton has built a collection of pottery and ceramic art—in particular, dozens of pieces by Ron Meyers—that demonstrates the vitality of clay.

I made a cement-board worktop that could be removed and stored when not in use. Here’s how to make one of your own.

Images from Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

In this issue, we cover the topic of galleries with a behind-the-scenes perspective, discussions on the ways artists get selected for representation or exhibitions, and, artists’ thoughts on how they promote and sell their work.

In order to learn about traditional craft and pottery-making techniques, PJ Anderson studied Indigenous processes in South Africa and New Mexico.

Presented in this issue are works by 16 finalists that capture the dual theme of this year’s readership-wide contest. Through

If you are looking for inspiration, the projects and techniques in the following pages have you covered. This issue delivers

Everything comes with a price tag, including artwork. The artistic process is built on skills, education, experience, and creativity, all

Michelle Im’s current body of earthenware vessels grew from a cause-and-effect relationship between clay body and building process. Imagery from the natural world and Korean Buncheong ware inspire the

Deadlines for exhibitions, fairs, and festivals.

Jennifer Graff and Wayne Perry share recipes for clear glazes and slip they use to finish their work.

Cones are key in gaining insight into a kiln firing. How you assemble cone packs and where you place them are crucial for success.

Copper carbonate plus a precise firing schedule can produce a vibrant, crushed-strawberry-like red glaze in reduction firings. But did you know the same result can happen in oxidation firings too?

Over the course of her decades-long career as a ceramic artist, Christine Nofchissey McHorse made vessels with influence from the Taos tradition and later turned to making sculptures.

Loose handbuilt forms in red stoneware become the substrate for layered slips, animal imagery, and accents of glaze.

Wayne Perry addresses pervasive social issues including inequality and racism with humble terra-cotta clay as his material of choice.

In a three-part space split between wet-work studio, glazing and firing area, and gallery, James Watkins creates and displays large coil-built vessels, drawings, and pictorial tiles. Each piece draws

In order to better understand ancient civilizations, scientists study the physical and chemical properties of ceramic artifacts. They use a variety of non-destructive methods, from X-ray tomography an