Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

Eye-catching glaze recipes

Information on submitting work for exhibitions, fairs, and festivals.

Sheryl Leigh-Davault shares her experience with purchasing and taking over Don Reitz' studio, home, and property, including the Reitzagama wood kiln. The kiln was recently fired for the first time sin

Letter from the Editor

Quick tip for your studio and firing in your kiln.

Shalan combines handbuilding techniques with burnished terra sigillata, bare clay, and pops of underglaze color in her work. The smoke firing process and careful groupings of forms convey her studies

Information on submitting work for exhibitions, fairs, and festivals.

Cone 04 slip and glaze recipes shared by Jason Green.

Coils don't have to be round and uniform. Thoresen explains how to make flat and triangular-shaped coils and the situations in which each type can be used.

Employing two simple plaster molds and a variety of handbuilding techniques, Carol Gouthro creates an astonishing array of organic sculptural forms.

Shino glazes are incredibly technical and complex, with a wide range of colors. While they have been one of the most popular glazes used throughout ceramic history, they still remain widely misunderst

An abundance of free wood ash from summer bonfires led Clausen to explore various ways to use this variable flux material in (and over) glazes.

Benzle uses light, color, and pattern (created through nerikomi techniques) to create pieces that shift and change based on the time of day and setting, and that reward the careful observer.

Renovating a 250-year-old house set Green down a path he is still exploring to this day: one focused on architecture, design, and the memories held within structures.

in 2013, after 27 in a converted barn studio, Gail Russell and her fiancé purchased a property and along with it established a new studio space and gallery just outside of Columbus, Ohio.

Aaron Winston's career path has taken him from two-dimensional art through to industrial design and working as a director at a community-focused ceramics center.

Rose Cabat, best known for her small vessels–known as Feelies–with soft, satiny glazes that invite viewers to touch them, worked in clay for over 50 years. The spare forms and jewel-like glazes she de

What is a journeyman potter? Jared Zehmer, who works as one in Seagrove, North Carolina, explains the gig that lets him travel to different shops in the area and make pots for them.

What started with one new citizen's aim to help others has expanded to include over 60 artists and local brewery collaborating on a charity auction. The group made, decorated, and sold 100 mugs, gener

Clementine Ceramics' Plate Project lets kids in their community help those facing food scarcity by decorating plates that are then shown and auctioned off in a local gallery, with proceeds going to th