Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

Organic, lyrical ribbons wrap and intricately slip-trailed surfaces cover Carol Long’s nature-inspired vessels. Dynamic negative space, built with functional and non-functional handles, makes her volumetric forms feel light and rich.

When met with the successes and logistical challenges of the Michiana Pottery Tour, the participating artists created the Northern Indiana Clay Alliance to organize and manage their expanding needs.

Similar to a skyscraper, EcoTech Lab utilizes vertical space to bring efficient agricultural production, smart design, and fresh produce to densely populated cities via their modular ClayPonic system.

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

The clay body, slip, and glaze recipes listed below yield surfaces that are reliable and variable when fired in atmospheric kilns like wood and soda.

The following recipes, shared along with his process article, allow Eric Ordway to achieve vibrant color, flashing effects, and reliable functional surfaces out of wood and soda kilns.

Deadlines for exhibitions, fairs, and festivals.

Although Betsy Hinze-Heart’s workspace may look non-traditional and physical limitations have changed her relationship to food, her commitment to creating meal-centered, functional forms remains.

Exploring how variables like saturation, temperature, and atmosphere affect color within your kiln can bring understanding to an at times unpredictable part of the finishing process.

Functional ceramics inspire whole careers and lifelong pursuits in art, ever-growing collaborative events, material innovation to solve problems large and small, hyperfocused exploration of singular forms, and more.

Garlic and ginger graters are highly sought-after ceramic products, but I wanted to fasten the production process. To construct a simple tool, I rushed to my kids’ toy box.

Out of a large, two-part studio in a subsidized building of artists’ workspaces, Kala Stein creates ceramic objects and installations at a range of scales, from the home to commissions for public spaces.

Pulling influence from traditional moon jars and veering off into a direction decidedly her own, Jane Yang D’Haene makes vibrant, expressive vessels in a practice marked by organization and goal setting.

Chris Riccardo is a working artist and fixture in the arts community in Helena, Montana. Now, he’s running for mayor.

Rich, detailed surfaces are hallmarks of Lindsay Montgomery’s work. Here she shares a handful of recipes that build opaque grounds, gloss highlights, and stable surfaces for majolica ware.

Finding inspiration in his surroundings while mountain climbing, Justin D’Onofrio creates functional vessels that relay the colors and textures of the natural world in porcelain, stoneware, and shale.

Olivia Walker develops non-functional vessels and sculptures with highly fluid inclusions that call to mind fungi, coral, and decay. These textural surfaces harness the material qualities of the Limoges porcelain with which she works.

Based in New York City, Sarah Allwine merges experience in production pottery and a keen affinity for personally significant objects and symbols in hand-built sculptural vessels.