Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

Emerging Artists Ariel Bowman and Nathan Willever share recipes they use to achieve the ideal surface for their bodies of work—realistic or atmospheric.

Titanium dioxide’s ability to crystallize is what makes it different from other opacifiers. Find what else it can do and what tests you can try in your own glaze lab.

Inspiration from mid-20th century Abstract Expressionist paintings is visible in the immediacy of color application and non-representational, fluid compositions. It is also evoked by the use of lithiu

Elaine Buss draws upon the wide-open spaces of the rural landscape she grew up in to create her ambiguous moonscape or farm crop-like installations. She takes a metaphorical approach to materials, con

Organic, weathered, earthy, and minimal are all words that can be used to describe Zoë Powell’s functional and sculptural ceramic forms. Each one is perfectly imbalanced with just the right amount of

Since first discovering ceramics while studying painting years ago, Bradley Klem’s nimble ability to fluctuate between two- and three-dimensional surfaces has been one of his greatest tools in creatin

Using red earthenware, bold brush strokes, and a complimentary palette of colored slips and washes, Sasha Barrett creates functional vessels that evoke a sense of movement as well as the agricultural

Antique vessels, Neoclassical architectural details, vintage wallpaper, baking tins, and even foods and their packaging are the visual cues in the sculpture made by Mary Cale A. Wilson that point towa

James Lee Webb’s aesthetic starts with authentic discovery. His research into how beauty is inherently known and decided, combined with his investigations into his own synesthesia, has led him to deve

The physical processes that have transformed the earth over the course of millennia have resulted in striking natural architecture in rocks and landscapes. Scott McClellan mimics this weathering, heat

Raven Halfmoon’s figurative sculptures explore her experience as a woman and Native American living in the US today. Her work expresses her feelings about and understanding of her Caddo tribal heritag

Paige Wright renders memories, immortalizing significant people in her life in clay as an act of safekeeping. Like a memory (or, perhaps, a dream) the figures waver in and out of focus, and are subjec

Dawn Candy’s functional body of ceramic forms is inspired by rhythm, pattern, and landscape—both wild and cultivated. Vines grow on trellises, tall grasses blow in the wind, and large flower blooms br

Austin Riddle’s pots combine a knowing nostalgia for the aesthetics of mid-century Modernism in America with a focus on creating generous pieces that will be familiar, comfortable, and used regularly.

Donté K. Hayes’ research is focused on interpreting Caribbean, American Southern, and African continental traditions crossed with themes of hip-hop culture and Afrofuturism—a term Hayes interprets as

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

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

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

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

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