Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

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.

In 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

When 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

Our 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

Why 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

Making 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

Kira Kalondy and Andrew McIntyre, who were both included in this year's From Idea to Finished Form contest, each share their favorite recipes.