Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

  • 2019 Emerging Artist: Kelsie Rudolph
    Kelsie Rudolph searches for commonalities across cultural and social systems exemplified by the way that people relate to objects in various architectural spaces. Postulating that people’s responses a
  • 2019 Emerging Artist: Kyla Culbertson
    Picture a living room: a fireplace, a window, a sofa with pillows, and side tables. Within this vignette, swap all assumed warm color and texture of these furnishings for stark white cardboard detaile
  • 2019 Emerging Artist: Eric Heerspink
    Those glowing lines are made of saturated glaze, and appear simultaneously instructional as they divide each form, yet technological in their vector-like precision. Though influenced by a place far, f
  • 1 Être à Court de Temps, 4 ft. 1 in. (1.2 m) in height, ceramic, porcelain table, fired to cone 5 in oxidation with slow cooling, decals, luster, gold leaf, mixed media, grass flocking, 3D prints, 2018. Photo: Joshua Hobson.
    2019 Emerging Artist: Ariel Bowman
    Ariel Bowman’s sculptures mine the overlap between a fascination with these extinct animals and her interest in the aesthetics, philosophy, and cultural view of the wild that predominated during the A
  • 2019 Emerging Artist: Janina Myronova
    With the physical attributes of super-hero figurines and the sharply defined features of a graphic novel, Janina Myronova’s handbuilt and mold-made figures express her interest in human relationships
  • 2019 Emerging Artist: Nathan Willever
    The US Mid Atlantic has a history of ceramic production dating back centuries with lead-glazed slipware and salt-glazed stoneware. The accessible deposits of iron-rich clay available in the area are n
  • Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artists 2019
    Thank you to the 371 artists who submitted their work to this year's Emerging Artist competition! Choosing the 19 artists whose works you'll see on the following pages from this large pool of high-qua
  • Studio Visit: Pottery Park: Paul Fryman and Mikhail Tovstous, Burty, Poltava Province, Ukraine
    While searching for a place to build a wood kiln, Paul Fryman came upon an idyllic property in rural Burty, Ukraine, with expansive views of a lake. With a lot of hard work, Pottery Park has transform
  • Clay Culture: Cost for Private Classes
    Thinking of opening a teaching studio or expanding the offerings at your current space to include private lessons? Lisa Bare Culp shares her experience bringing smaller classes into the mix at Barecla
  • Exposure: May 2019
    Images from Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
  • Quick Tip: Salad Tong Tools
    I like making the things I use. I also like hunting for treasures in thrift stores. Lately, I’ve been hunting and collecting old salad forks, spoons, and other wooden utensils to make clay tools. I re
  • From the Editor: May 2019
    The editorial staff always looks forward to putting the Emerging Artist issue together. While it is quite a task to review 371 submissions, narrow down the entries, and then make our selections, we ar
  • Summer Workshops 2019
    Dedicate some time this summer to learning new techniques and interacting with other artists at a workshop. We’ve gathered information on opportunities all over the US and abroad in this annual guide.
  • Studio Visit: Inge Vincents, Copenhagen Denmark
    A bustling city street serves as a backdrop through the windows of this potter’s combined studio and shop.
  • Call for Entries April 2019
    Information on submitting work for exhibitions, fairs, and festivals.
  • Spotlight: A Void and a Need
    Chris Corson found personal fulfillment and artistic challenge in making the switch from union lawyer to ceramic artist.
  • Recipes: 2018 Emerging Artist's Atmospheric Surfaces
    Andrew McIntyre, one of Ceramics Monthly’s 2018 Emerging Artists as well as one of our “Drink Up!” contest winners, shares glaze recipes that he uses for atmospheric firing.
  • Tips and Tools: Raku Kiln Design Revisited
    While the natural variation of raku firing can be appealing, learn how to gain more control over your raku kiln and its fired results with these simple kiln design updates.
  • Techno File: Stoneware Maturity
    The majority of ceramic artists buy their clay bodies or raw materials from a commercial supplier. With each purchase comes a trust that the product will fire as directed. And most do, but as mines ch
  • Colored Clay Blends and Tests
    An interest in how we recognize and ascribe meaning to colors, and how that affects our perceptions of objects around us led Allison Cochran to experiment with creating an impressive palette of colore