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After graduating from West Surrey College of Art in Farnham, England, in 1982, I set up my first studio, converting an old building on my parents’ ocean-front property in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Environmentally-friendly method of manufacturing ceramics may reduce companies carbon footprint, and render kilns obsolete for some applications and products. The way your toilet is manufactured ma

One way to increase efficiency is to reduce waste. And when it comes to manufacturing ceramic tile, there’s some room for improvement. An estimated 1.5 million tons of waste are produced yearly fro

My studio is located outside Taos, New Mexico, on the way to the Taos Ski Valley and an hour and a half from Santa Fe, New Mexico. The property was purchased in 2006 with the dream of expanding a one-

My ceramics degree was only the start of my journey in clay. I knew instinctively that I wasn’t finished with potting when I completed my four years at university. While in school, I spent my honors y

In Shigaraki, we mass-produced pots for the commercial market. That was not necessarily what we wanted to do, but we had to do that in order to make a living. We were interested in wood firing and too

I have been pursuing art as a career since I was teenager. A middle- school assignment propelled me to study ceramics, after I made a sculpture of a local artist and I discovered clay. The clay got in

Pottery found me in high school as a rather indifferent kid. I was disinterested in anything related to school. When I encountered something that did not rely on the mundane basics of education, I tho

The ceramic scholar, Philip Rawson, gave the keynote address at the Iowa Wood Firing Conference in 1991, and compared contemporary wood firing to a 19th-century cult in which artists, who were appalle

Bob Briscoe and his wife Mary purchased property in rural Stark, Minnesota in 1987. Once he was set up with a home and studio, Bob started an annual fall sale.

When I saw them, the first four images of Bouke de Vries’ lecture (presented at 2016’s New York Ceramics and Glass Fair) took me through a trial of his work as a professional conservator. A patron’s h

Once, during a sunny outdoor concert, I was privileged to hear Sun Ra and his Jazz Arkestra perform. The notes that Sun Ra played on the keyboard seemed suspended in air. It was as if he had transcend

Duluth Pottery, my studio and retail shop, was in the historic Trade and Commerce Marketplace in Superior, Wisconsin, for 17 years. I rented the space to make work to bring to fine art fairs and galle

David MacDonald's high-fire clay and glaze recipes.

Wood firing is an arduous task. One way to help reduce the time and labor it takes to process wood for a firing is to build a metal rack that holds the wood in place and allows it to be quickly cut to

Traditionally, shino-glazed works are fired in reduction kilns—as a reducing atmosphere must be created for iron to be drawn into the glaze from the clay surface—unless the glaze is formulated with su

Images from Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

This mug by Royce Yoder was the first pot I purchased that was made by a professional potter. His studio is located close to where I went to undergraduate school (Kutztown University) in Pennsylvania.

Tokyo University of the Arts’ Professor Ryo Mikami is a master of the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi. In addition to making his own clays and glazes using local materials, he also makes his own kana,