Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

Carving can be nerve wracking for many. Two steps to help you gain confidence in carving are learning what your clay body’s ideal moisture level is for each tool that you use and maintaining that mois

I don’t know about you, but I seem to naturally gravitate toward depictions of other people or animals, reading their overall features, facial expressions, gestures, stances, posture, and more. This f

Galleries and other institutions that showcase ceramics play an important role in their physical communities, as well as the larger ceramics community via their online presence. They help to support a

Find venues that exhibit ceramic art in our annual Gallery Guide listing.

To find a new audience, Lisa Belsky and Cat Sheridan looked beyond traditional ceramics venues to The Smithery, a jewelry and modern craft gallery, to showcase an exhibition of ceramic cups.

Deadlines for exhibitions, fairs, and festivals.

Forrest Lesch-Middelton shares a few clay and glaze recipes that have proven suitable for creating handmade tile.

Miranda Thomas provides the light and dark slip recipes that she uses for sgraffito decoration, as well as two glazes that work well over these two slips.

Do you have a glaze that settles into a rock-hard layer on the bottom of the bucket? This annoying phenomenon is called hard-panning. Learn the cause of the problem and how to fix it.

Consider clay body characteristics carefully when making tile by hand. Your choice of clay and the handling techniques you use can greatly impact the success of tile production.

Creating figurative assemblages in clay with surfaces that recall the textures and finishes of other materials allows Keith Schneider to build stories for viewers to interpret.

A group exhibition at the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, combines beauty and craftsmanship with risk taking and provocation.

How much do we know about the teachers and mentors who inspired our love of clay? Jere M. Grimm set out to learn more about her high-school sculpture instructor, who set the course of Grimm’s career

Artists, designers, gallerists, and non-profit organizations have collaborated in Guatemala to combine generational ceramic traditions with contemporary forms and marketing.

Three contemporary artists employ trompe l’oeil techniques to achieve very different results, from evoking nostalgia to building a narrative.

I have a gallery in my studio building that is open year round. The workspace was designed with good lighting, so there are no shadows on the work. The building has solar panels on the roof, which sig

A willingness to delegate and build a skilled team has allowed the Miranda Thomas Pottery to take on numerous challenging, high-profile projects. Additionally, this business practice has allowed Thoma

As David and Maggy Rozycki Hiltner’s family and home in Red Lodge, Montana, expanded, so did their ceramic collection. Being connected to the clay community through Red Lodge Clay Center gives them th

Images from Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

When shipping pottery, I use the box-within-a-box system. The pottery is secured as normal with traditional packing materials (paper and bubble wrap) and sealed in the smaller, interior box.