Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

I find that there are many similarities between making pots and collecting pots. For me, both of them start with a cup. Making a cup is always the first thing I do in the studio and a cup made by Jen

Collecting and using handmade pottery allows for a connection to the maker, providing opportunities to recall memories of the creative people and unique places from which the pots came. The vessels I

The studio I have worked out of for the past 12 years is a converted two-car garage attached to our home. We live near the Monterey Bay in California, surrounded by redwoods and very close to the ocea

Josh DeWeese, who teaches at Montana State University (MSU) in Bozeman and was formerly the resident artist director at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana, has been sur

A couple years ago I was part of an exhibition at a gallery and the experience was so bad and unprofessional it brought back memories of painful learning experiences as I fumbled my way into the art b

Anne Currier’s work is both enigmatic and totemic, it poses questions about the relationships of subtle curves to angles and sections of circles to planes, all of which are in some subtle manner spati

When I walk into a museum or gallery I often walk through it too casually, my cavalier consumption of art creating a satisfying illusion of ownership. Something like visual speed-reading, the voices o

When I begin each new piece, I have a few expectations for the final result. It must have structural integrity, balance, and aesthetic virtue. I want to express the awe I feel for the beauty in the wo

Many of us keep day jobs and dream of that week we can pour into an anagama firing, only to emerge utterly exhausted and back at the daily grind. The goal here is to make “wood-fired” pottery at home,

Berry bowls are perfect for any season. They can be used for washing and draining fruit, and then serving them in the decorative bowl on a matching drip plate. Many potters have punched the holes into

Drilling through ceramics is actually not as hard as one might think. I’m talking about the task of course and not the actual material. It’s a matter of having the right tools and a little patience.

New Mexico-based artist Lauren Karle shares the low-fire recipes she uses to make her clay body, wash, slip, and glaze. You can also check out her article in this issue, co-written with Simon Levin, o

That must be a record in the gallery business—I started at age 20 as an artist and morphed my business model with the evolving marketplace. As an independent entrepreneur, I have the fortune of follow

When I was in college, first learning to make functional work, I was living in a dorm. I knew I loved working with clay and that making things by hand had a powerful effect on me, but I had a hard tim

It began with a phone call. “What would you think about working on something about growlers?” Alexandra (Alex) Jelleberg, who is a resident artist and coordinator at Project Art in Cummington, Mass

Sutter Stremmel wanted to get his hands dirty. It was 2010, and he and his wife, Samantha, had both just earned English literature degrees from the University of Montana. He’d been studying pottery of

She renovated an existing outbuilding into a studio, and constructed the following: a clay shed, a kiln shed, an office space, and a gallery.

Being from the Midwest, agriculture and farming are a part of my culture and visual landscape. I have always been interested in mechanical farming implements, left out to pasture after a life of labor

In ceramics the relationship between form and function is rarely simple. When the latter encompasses conceptual and aesthetic purpose its scope can be as vast as thought and as infinite as art.