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From the Editor: September 2016When 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
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Exposure: September 2016
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Clay Culture: GrowlerFestIt 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
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Clay Culture: Staying PowerSutter 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
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Studio Visit: Micki Schloessignk, Cheriton, Wales, United KingdomShe renovated an existing outbuilding into a studio, and constructed the following: a clay shed, a kiln shed, an office space, and a gallery.
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A Shift in ScaleBeing 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
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Restaurant Wares: Teaching to the TestIn 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.
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More than Meets the Eye: Kazunori Hamana, Yuji Ueda, and Otani WorkshopIn Japanese ceramics the literal reality of an object as form, texture, and material is always important but these exist with an abstract or traditional spiritual meaning; the work points beyond itsel
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The Most Difficult ThingsWhen I opened my full-time studio in 1981 I envisioned, perhaps naively, that I would be able to work solo without employees for my entire career. I planned to have retail space through which I would
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From Idea to Finished FormOur second annual readership-wide contest asked artists to share their creative process—from photos and paintings to sketches, paper cutouts, and layered patterns through to the finished piece—in a c
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Techno File: The Chemistry of ColorWhy are some materials transparent and others opaque? Light can be thought of as a beam of light particles called photons, each one a packet of light energy. When a photon of light hits an atom, it ca
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Tips and Tools: Growler LidsMaking handmade beer growlers is something many potters have found a growing interest in, a natural response to the rising popularity of craft beer and local breweries. A properly functioning growler
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Recipes: Engobes to CeladonsKira Kalondy and Andrew McIntyre, who were both included in this year's From Idea to Finished Form contest, each share their favorite recipes.
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Spotlight: September 2016
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Exposure: June/July/August 2016
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From the Editor
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Clay Culture: 50 Years in the Making
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Clay Culture: Party Planning
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Studio Visit: Bruce Gholson and Samantha Henneke, Seagrove, North Carolina
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Working Potters: Kat and Roger
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