Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

Transformation and spiritual containment are central to Rashida Ferdinand’s life and art practice.

Often large scale and composed of thousands of components made via collaboration, the work of Cannupa Hanska Luger emphasizes his belief that we need each other.

Yinka Orafidiya traveled to Ghana to study under master women potters, then held community-focused workshops upon her return to Philadelphia to share the vessel-making process with Black women.

When planning his second career as an artist, Byju S R moved to a house with a small studio and flexible outdoor patio space suitable for both larger projects and group workshops alike.

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.