Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

Seth Charles wants you to look closer. At first glance, his wood-fired sculptures might remind you of an eroded rock formation or the carved arch of a cliff.

Through large-scale installations composed of thousands of tiny elements suspended on monofilament, Ngozi Omeje tells layered stories of personal and universal experiences.

Within Andy Bissonnette’s refined vessels exists a series of contrasts: smooth and carved, complex and simple, intentional and organic.

Grove Vale is a gallery and workshop that is home to four ceramic talents, long-time studio mates established in their own individual practices.

Steel-framed homes with porcelain-enameled steel cladding were produced as kits at the end of the 1940s in response to the post-war housing crisis. Although the building method never took off, an esti

Two educators, Kelly Clark and Courtney Long, share the ways they’ve adapted to instructing ceramics students remotely.

Images from Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

Clay slip, or liquefied clay, can be used in varying ways. When working with earthenware, the clay bodies are higher in iron content and darker in color, ranging from red, to brown, to black. A lighte

Whether you’re interested in exploring atmospheric firing or are curious about the ways artists choose and use firing techniques to further their ideas, I hope you’ll be inspired by these artists’ approaches.

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Ceramic artist Stefani Threet opened her business, Ceramic Concept, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in November, after imagining it for years. The shop primarily focuses on showcasing work by local art

Read on to find recipes for satin to matte glazes that showcase the effects discussed in the Techno File article, a variegated green that highlights botanical forms, and clay-based surfaces.

Shipping his teabowls in a square box just didn’t make sense to Paul Fryman. Working together with a packaging company, he designed a custom hexagonal box that’s sturdy and distinctive.

The sculptural vessels that Olivia Tani makes combine visually distinct, seemingly inflated segments into a unified whole. She shares her slab-building process, and the ways that small alterations can

Shifting a glaze from glossy to satin to matte is pure glaze chemistry. Discover how a glaze can come out glossy, matte, or somewhere in between depending on whether it is saturated with flux or not.

After studying in both the Bahamas and the US, Jessica Colebrooke opened her studio and tile business in Nassau. She has invested her time and knowledge to expand access for others interested in worki

An exhibition at David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles, California, showcased more than 60 small vases made by Doyle Lane between the late 1950s and late 1970s. The weed pots demonstrate his mastery

Explorations of her own cultural hybridity and family history inform Heidi McKenzie’s choice of clays, forms, and surfaces in the various sculptural series she makes.

Through installation work composed of hundreds or thousands of multiples, Samantha Dickie explores how space and time interact, as well as our relationships with ourselves, others, the built environme

Two distinct modes of making—contemplative slab building and meditative pinching—serve as a means for Paul Briggs to express reflections on the political climate, pain, racial inequality in the justic