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Quick Tip: Plant Pot ChuckThis technique will help you keep your neat rim safe and also help keep it perfectly round.
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From the Editor: Getting OutAs artists, gallery goers, and collectors (budding or otherwise), little compares to viewing work in person. This issue focuses on all things exhibition.
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Supporters of Ceramics Monthly — September 2024
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From the Editor: Material AppealThe artists and stories shared in this issue have a similarly strong connection to something specific about the clay itself, which steers their interest, research, and practice.
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Quick Tip: Plates on the WheelFor us potters, it’s nice to have any tips or tricks to make the throwing process easier on our bodies.
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🎧 Thrown and Altered BasketInspired by the lines of Mid-Century Modern design and the Streamlining era, Ray Brown constructs vessels that are refined yet energetic.
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Exposure: September 2024Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
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Clay Culture: Variety in Electric KilnsShikha Joshi experimented with techniques, including the use of wild clay, to mimic the surfaces of an atmospheric firing, resulting in unique, complex, and varied pottery finishes.
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For a FeastThis year, our readership-wide contest features ceramic works that encourage celebration, gathering, or marking a special occasion.
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Studio Visit: Daniel Shapiro, St. Louis, MissouriDaniel Shapiro’s converted 1912 carriage house in the Compton Heights neighborhood of St. Louis serves as a creative space where family life and his studio practice intersect seamlessly.
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🎧 Special Topics in Plaster and Slip CastingWith over 50 years of experience working with ceramics and mold making, Jonathan Kaplan shares an extensive guide to all things slipcasting in the recent book, The Mold-Making Manual: The Art of Models, Molds, and Slip-cast Ceramics.
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🎧 James Oughtibridge: Ambiguous and DramaticWorking at a variety of scales, James Oughtibridge creates abstract sculptures in raw clay characterized by fluidity and movement.
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Call for Entries: September 2024Deadlines for exhibitions, fairs, and festivals.
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Tips and Tools: Stamp and TransferMake an underglaze stamp pad using a small container, quilting foam, and underglaze to add repeatable designs to your surface repertoire.
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🎧 Brittany Mojo: Liminal StatesBrittany Mojo makes ceramic objects that investigate concepts of women’s work, grief, play, and the in between in a practice that pairs material exploration and reflection through writing.
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Spotlight: Transformative ConnectionSince José Sierra’s Ceramics Monthly Working Potter feature in 2017, his work has become more sculptural, larger in scale, and, after returning to New Mexico, especially influenced by the spirituality of the high desert.
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Techno File: Calcining KaolinWhy go to the effort of calcining your kaolin? If your glaze or kiln wash recipes contain too much uncalcined clay, the glaze may crawl and the kiln wash could crack off.
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Recipes: Layered SurfacesThe recipes shared below from Ray Brown and Maya McNicoll work in the potters’ practices to develop layers of surface information for functional, visually compelling pots.
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Exposure: June/July/August 2024Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
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Supporters of Ceramics Monthly — June/July/August 2024
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