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Drawing on the memories of his younger years spend hunting and skinning small animals and his desire to create awareness of the inequalities between the sexes and sexualities, Wrankle creates provocat

A subtle sense of landscape-inspired luminosity and movement carries through the form and surface decoration on Noel Bailey’s utilitarian pots.

Stanley Rosen, an influential mentor to many through his three decades of teaching at Bennington College in Vermont, creates enigmatic handbuilt sculptures that investigate the relationship between me

The simplicity and space-saving design of a coffee pour-over is pretty appealing. The fact that its an accessible form potters can explore, adapt, and design to work collaboratively with mugs made by

After years of working in many different spaces, including a small studio without a kiln in New York City, then a tiny, expensive studio in Vancouver, British Columbia, Staschke renovated the garage a

Clay centers can face many challenges, even as they are enthusiastically supported by their communities. Carbondale Clay Center, which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary, is finding creative way

Canadas largest city is home to a thriving and welcoming community of ceramic artists. Local author and artist Heidi McKenzie shares places not to be missed when you visit.

Letter from the Editor, function and process.

Images from Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

Learn what drew Anthony Schaller and Brittany Stecker Mason to gallery work as a career path and what continues to inspire and drive the duo at Schaller Gallery in St. Joseph, Michigan.

Most of the universe is too big or too small for us to appreciate directly. Aside from mere samples delivered to us by electron microscopes or NASA’s Hubble telescope, we remain unconscious of the vig

There are a variety of rare earth metals—28 of them in the lanthanides and actinides, to be exact—and many are either too expensive or radioactive, to incorporate into a glaze. The actinides are all r

Over the last 26 years, I’ve successfully bisque fired plates and platters of many sizes and weights on their rims. The technique of stacking wheel-thrown dinner plates on their rims in a vertical for

I had the opportunity to help build and decorate a large, traditional jar with French artist Pietro Bruzzi, who is known as Pierrot. He is a third-generation potter in the town of Vallauris in the Sou

Eva Kwong and Kirk Mangus’ slip recipe works in a wide range of firings from electric to atmospheric.

Information on submitting work for exhibitions, fairs, and festivals.

It doesn’t matter if you are local and are looking to rent studio space or are planning on visiting and seeing shows, the Twin Cities have a lot to offer to ceramic artists.

I remember the first time that I looked at a piece by Ron Nagle and really started to engage with it. I was reading the book Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics 1950–2000 by Jo Lauria,

Images from Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

The Ottawa Guild of Potters presented Populace, a ceramic art installation that marked Canada’s 150th year as a nation, acknowledging the three main cultures present in the Ottawa area at the time of