Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

Marianne Chénard incorporates raw materials such as clay, fire, wood, and salt to explore humanity’s impact on the environment.

Step up your handbuilding repertoire by using tar-paper templates custom made with the assistance of a template generator.

This issue of Ceramics Monthly is focused on figurative and narrative ceramics, and the many ways in which artists use clay to make works created for storytelling.

Pulled from the Ceramic Recipes archives of thousands of clay, slip, and glaze recipes, the following are sure to add a bright pop of color to your palette.

Deadlines for exhibitions, fairs, and festivals.

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

The recipes listed below enhance texture by adding color, depth, contrast, and a desired surface quality to sculptural ceramic forms.

Each sculptural vessel form made by Hilde Boterman is surfaced with countless small, hand-rolled tapered coils. Boterman refers to these components as grains, and describes her process step by step.

There are many common defects that occur during firing. Learn how to examine your pots in the production cycle so you can prevent those defects before the firing.

Inspired by the tools shown in an old book, Emily Schroeder Willis developed these instructions for piecing together a custom circle cutter for slabs.

Deadlines for exhibitions, fairs, and festivals.

BLACKDOORS plans guerrilla installations of ceramic tile around cities, in a project that speaks to viewership, ornament, and daily life.

This excerpt from Jonathan Kaplan’s newly released book The Mold-Making Manual lists the pros and cons of various ways of procuring casting slip, plus includes a chart for diagnosing common casting-slip issues.

Nodding at art history, interiors, humor, and personal interests, Maura Wright creates environments of ceramic objects and installations that are intelligently and intentionally curious.

Dame Magdalene Odundo’s Canadian debut at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto included the largest collection of her works ever shown in North America, spanning four decades of her career.

Robert Yellin, an American-born gallerist immersed in Japanese pottery since 1984, curates his gallery not only to foster an appreciation for traditional and contemporary Japanese ceramics but also to ensure their continued relevance and vitality.

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

Balance is key in the shared, converted barn studio of Michelle Gregor and Françoise LeClerc.

Mo Dickens became immersed in the ceramics field when he met and married Cary Esser, ceramic artist and chair of the ceramics department at Kansas City Art Institute.