Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

Jenny Sabin’s PolyBrick series redefines ceramics in architecture through 3D printing, bioengineering, and digital design, creating adaptive, sustainable, and responsive clay components that merge art, science, and architecture.

Katie Rose Johnston’s MANIFESTO studio blends nature, history, and function into ceramics inspired by Scotland’s rugged landscapes and archaeological heritage, celebrating handmade craft, foraged materials, and their power to connect past and present.

A child of North African refugees, Yael Braha’s journey from graphic design and filmmaking to ceramics reflects a life shaped by relocation and transformation. Her work explores themes of impermanence, process, and the search for a sense of home.

For functional forms adorned with brushwork motifs, Kyla Strid opts for either a glossy or satin-glazed surface. Below are the two recipes she uses to make them.

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

Want to switch up your surroundings and devote a period of time to focusing on your practice, research, and making? A residency or fellowship might be just the thing.

Ryan Coppage stresses the value of small kilns for experimentation and creative growth, urging potters to prioritize self-expression and trial and error over commercial pressures and mass production.

Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known Aboriginal pottery on Jiigurru (Lizard Island) in northeast Australia challenging old stereotypes, and revealing that Aboriginal communities were part of vibrant maritime networks thousands of years ago.

A renovated split-level garage houses Kyla Strid’s studio. This 750-square-foot structure includes areas to wheel throw and trim work, display finished pieces, host events and sales, and store equipment for beekeeping, all with room to grow.

Devoted time and space to pursue your practice—sound appealing? Learn more about residencies here.

Reclaim The Cup is a creative workshop series that encourages participants to transform broken and discarded ceramics into unconventional, sculptural cups.

In this issue, we see how a number of ceramic artists make functional pottery and interpret function according to their goals and conceptual concerns.

A recent study examined how cultural and individual differences influence pottery shapes by having 21 potters from French, Hindu Indian, and Muslim Indian communities reproduce four basic shapes on their respective pottery wheels.

As ceramic artists we pay most attention to our clay bodies and glazes, but what happens in between those two areas should not be ignored. Learn more about the all-important hidden zone of ceramics.

The recipes below yield fluid, pooling glaze surfaces when fired in the soda kiln. Samuel Newman uses these in the studio on wheel-thrown and stamped vessels.

The following recipes for a clay body and majolica glaze are two that potter Peter Jadoonath utilizes in his functional ceramics.

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

Samuel Newman’s signature form, the Maker’s Mug, combines multiple forming techniques and uses atmospheric firing as a collaborative process, all resulting in a unique hourglass shape with dynamic surfaces.