Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

I took my first pottery classes in middle school, and really fell in love with it as a dyslexic, uncoordinated kid who was asked to mouth the words in chorus. I’d never been good at anything in school

Jeff Schwarz’s sculptural vessels are the result of a delicate conceptual balancing act. Lying midway between popular culture and fine art, between functional and sculptural ceramics, his work bears a

Back in the 1990s I had a small ceramics business that specialized in tile, fountains, lamps, and other decorative indoor and outdoor wares. Early in my career I submitted a proposal for a large tile

“Core Connections: Korean Ceramics” at Lacoste Gallery (www.lacostegallery.com), in Concord, Massachusetts, included works selected by ceramic artist Sunkoo Yuh. By selecting the work of his instructo

Associate Editor Holly Goring and I had the opportunity to attend the Utilitarian Clay VII (UCVII) symposium at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, right before we sent this

Images from Current and Upcoming Exhibitions.

I worked as a lawyer for almost six years at a couple of large law firms in New York City, and while the work was intellectually challenging and my colleagues were comfortably collegial, I felt someth

Mountains of discarded porcelain. Labor as material. Recycling as a natural resource. These are just a few phrases that Recycled China co-founders Jeffrey Miller and Thomas Schmidt commonly employ whe

I first saw the work of Recycled China (Jeffrey Miller and Thomas Schmidt) in person at the 8th Gyeonggi International Ceramics Biennale’s competition exhibition in Icheon, South Korea. I was complete

Images from Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

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,