Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

Deadlines for exhibitions, fairs, and festivals

This year, our readership-wide contest, Function Focused, shares all manner of vessels specially created for use.

Though often overshadowed by metal currency, ceramic coins have played a significant role throughout history serving purposes ranging from legal tender and religious rituals to collectibles and commemorative tokens.

Inspired by real-life events, Anne Koszalka took on the task of creating hundreds of narrative tiles with painting and sgraffito techniques for the illustrations of a book on one dog’s adoption journey.

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

Welcome to the September issue of Ceramics Monthly! With this curated collection of articles and information, I invite you to consider clay for its materiality.

Deadlines for exhibitions, fairs, and festivals.

Holly Walker’s career in clay spans nearly five decades. Currently, she creates earthenware vessels with bold, vibrant color blocking and patterning from her Vermont studio.

Ani Kasten came from a creative family, traveled to pursue ceramic studies and an apprenticeship, and has fostered relationships within her local and ceramics communities to the benefit of her practice, now located in Shafer, Minnesota.

Maria ten Kortenaar makes handbuilt vessels out of stained porcelain from her studio in Zaandam, the Netherlands. Her days include a swim in the River Zaan, regardless of the season.

Finding inspiration in English folk ceramics, the Industrial Revolution, and her experiences working in small potteries, Ginny Sims makes playful vessels that nod to history.

Haakon Lenzi shares the process he has developed for staining, layering, throwing, faceting, and finishing agateware vessels. The resulting patterns are visually striking and reveal the steps of their making.

Review the basics of electric kiln upkeep in order to ensure proper use and successful firings.

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

The following recipes are shared by two of Ceramics Monthly’s 2025 Emerging Artists to create rich, variable glazed surfaces on their finished works.

Located in an 1800s brick row house, Papavero Clay Studio serves as a gallery, community studio, and private workspace for co-owner Jeremy Randall. The multi-functional nature of this space requires juggling and balance.

Inspecting how a glaze turns out after a firing can reveal a foundation of knowledge that can be applied to many other glazes fired at various temperatures and in different atmospheres.

Abbey Peters makes soft, pastel vessels that disguise their potential for communication.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race in American Sculpture” has come under threat of censorship and loss of funding by a recent White House executive order.