Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

  • Clay Culture: Teaching Remotely
    Two educators, Kelly Clark and Courtney Long, share the ways they’ve adapted to instructing ceramics students remotely.
  • Exposure: March 2021
    Images from Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
  • Quick Tip: Line-Blend Tests
    Clay slip, or liquefied clay, can be used in varying ways. When working with earthenware, the clay bodies are higher in iron content and darker in color, ranging from red, to brown, to black. A lighte
  • From the Editor: March 2021
    Whether you’re interested in exploring atmospheric firing or are curious about the ways artists choose and use firing techniques to further their ideas, I hope you’ll be inspired by these artists’ approaches.
  • Call for Entries: February 2021
    deadlines for exhibitions, fairs, and festivals
  • Spotlight: Ceramic Concept
    Ceramic artist Stefani Threet opened her business, Ceramic Concept, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in November, after imagining it for years. The shop primarily focuses on showcasing work by local art
  • Recipes: Varied Surfaces from Matte to Variegated
    Read on to find recipes for satin to matte glazes that showcase the effects discussed in the Techno File article, a variegated green that highlights botanical forms, and clay-based surfaces.
  • Tips and Tools: Packaging
    Shipping his teabowls in a square box just didn’t make sense to Paul Fryman. Working together with a packaging company, he designed a custom hexagonal box that’s sturdy and distinctive.
  • Sculptural Vessels: Building with Slabs
    The sculptural vessels that Olivia Tani makes combine visually distinct, seemingly inflated segments into a unified whole. She shares her slab-building process, and the ways that small alterations can
  • Techno File: Surface Science
    Shifting a glaze from glossy to satin to matte is pure glaze chemistry. Discover how a glaze can come out glossy, matte, or somewhere in between depending on whether it is saturated with flux or not.
  • Building a Career and Community in the Bahamas
    After studying in both the Bahamas and the US, Jessica Colebrooke opened her studio and tile business in Nassau. She has invested her time and knowledge to expand access for others interested in worki
  • Doyle Lane: Weed Pots
    An exhibition at David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles, California, showcased more than 60 small vases made by Doyle Lane between the late 1950s and late 1970s. The weed pots demonstrate his mastery
  • Heidi McKenzie: Mixed Clay and Color
    Explorations of her own cultural hybridity and family history inform Heidi McKenzie’s choice of clays, forms, and surfaces in the various sculptural series she makes.
  • Samantha Dickie: Interaction with Space and Time
    Through installation work composed of hundreds or thousands of multiples, Samantha Dickie explores how space and time interact, as well as our relationships with ourselves, others, the built environme
  • A Delicate Balance: Paul Briggs
    Two distinct modes of making—contemplative slab building and meditative pinching—serve as a means for Paul Briggs to express reflections on the political climate, pain, racial inequality in the justic
  • Studio Visit: Andrea Denniston and Seth Guzovsky, Floyd, Virginia
    Andrea Denniston and Seth Guzovsky operate Poor Farm Pottery in the Virginia mountains, each making distinctive work in a shared studio. In keeping with tradition established by regional potteries, th
  • Clay Culture: Pottery Paradigm
    Artist and gallerist Jonathan Kaplan shares several strategies to help potters adapt to the new reality and restrictions of the selling work during the pandemic. Assessing markets, branding, and build
  • Clay Culture: Documentation
    Good lighting and sharp focus are key in accurately representing any object in a photograph. Beyond the basics, other aspects that ceramic artists may consider depend on the intended use of the images
  • Exposure: February 2021
    Images from Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
  • Quick Tip: Specific Gravity of Terra Sigillata
    After you have mixed and siphoned terra sigillata, you need to measure its specific gravity. Specific gravity is a measurement describing the relative heaviness of the terra sigillata in relation to s