Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

  • 2021 Emerging Artist: Anna Wagner
    This current body of work was created to promote a safe space for individuals to share their stories, experiences, and support around topics of invisible mental illnesses. My intentions are to bring p
  • 2021 Emerging Artist: Sunbin Lim
    I make my work through coiling techniques because I prefer to construct my work slowly. The pace of coil building provides me a sense of calm. Working slowly to build with coils grants a sensitivity t
  • 2021 Emerging Artist: Amanda Bury
    The formal language of my work is firmly rooted in everyday function and is based on growth patterns of nature, which manifest through geometric shapes and patterns.
  • 2021 Emerging Artist: Antonio Martinez
    The most challenging aspect of working in clay in terms of building a career has been feeling confident with my work and being consistent.
  • 2021 Emerging Artist: Aaron Caldwell
    The range of art that I am constantly discovering excites me! I spend a lot of time tapping into historical archives of ceramic art and searching for established and emerging artists that I have yet t
  • Studio Visit: Audry Deal-McEver, Nashville, Tennessee
    In addition to operating sustainably—with solar power, sustainable energy offsets, and clay and glaze recycling—efficiency is key for the garage studio of potter Audry Deal-McEver. Plenty of organizat
  • Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artists 2021
    This year we had over 300 submissions to the annual Emerging Artist competition from artists around the world. The 20 artists chosen as this year’s finalists skillfully use a variety of techniques.
  • Clay Culture: Biosolid Bricks
    Using biosolids—the product of wastewater treatment that often ends up in landfills—in the formation of bricks not only diverts waste, but also makes the firing process of brick production significant
  • Exposure: May 2021
    Images from Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
  • Quick Tip: Tin-Can Trailing
    I work with both porcelain and earthenware clay bodies on the wheel, then apply wet slip, layer upon layer, through pouring, dripping, feathering, brushing, and trailing with a tin can.
  • From the Editor: May 2021
    In this time of immense difficulties around the world, we were energized and heartened to see the work of the hundreds of artists who applied to this year’s Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist contest. M
  • Spotlight: Empowered
    The People’s Pottery Project was established to provide vital creative, transferable skills and resources to formerly incarcerated women, trans, and non-binary individuals. The Los Angeles–based studi
  • Call for Entries: April 2021
    Deadlines for exhibitions, fairs, and festivals.
  • Recipes: Versatility in Glazes
    By making a few selective additions to a reliable base recipe, you can easily expand your glaze palette. Here are three recipes from our archives—low, mid-range, and high temperature—with plenty of op
  • Recipes: Soda-fired Surfaces
    Stuart Gair and Justin Rothshank share slip, glaze, and wadding recipes that perform well when fired in a soda kiln.
  • Tips and Tools: Home Filtration System
    If you’ve set up a studio at home recently, save your plumbing from clay going down the drain with this simple DIY bucket filter.
  • Techno File: Air Bubble Myth
    Ceramic studios are full of warnings about trapped air pockets in joins or improperly wedged clay, but the factor that causes blow ups isn’t the air. Read more from Sue McLeod on the real culprit: tra
  • A Thoughtful Soda Approach
    Stuart Gair shares the details of form, materials, placement, and firing that allow him to achieve the results he wants when soda firing his work.
  • Review: Lost Encounters
    “Encounters” displays the work of Eirik Gjedrem and Ann Beate Tempelhaug, whose current access to the facilities of a ceramics factory enables large-scale exploration of natural themes.
  • Chris Miles: The Object Looks Back
    Creating complex, abstract structures whose forms speak to the process of manipulating clay and whose interiors and exteriors blend together, Chris Miles invites viewers of his sculptures to move arou