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Images from Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

In a way, each issue of Ceramics Monthly is about recognition, calling out artists for their achievements and ability, looking at the work and techniques, tools, and research that influence our field

Images from Current and Upcoming Exhibitions.

Emerging Artists Joyce St. Clair, Alex Thullen, Adam Yungbluth, and Matt Ziemke share recipes for the clays, engobes, and glazes they use to make their work.

Richard Hensley has dialed in his clear glaze recipe to prevent crazing. With a few additions, this versatile glaze can be adapted into a great celadon, or opaque trailing glaze, too.

All of us on the editorial staff look forward to seeing the emerging artists submissions each year. We’re consistently amazed by the variety and quality of the work that we have the opportunity to con

Robins use of color is improvisational, metaphorical, and decorative, and the resulting objects read both as paintings and sculptures.

Making a large wall piece out of hundreds of forms requires some serious planning, mapping, and methodical organization, along with a whole lot of patience and passion.

Kelleher’s soda-fired sculptures and pots contain stories both about their making, and about the lives of the people who use them.

Getting a studio together in pricey Southern California requires flexibility and creative thinking to squeeze all of the utility out of every square foot available.

Everyday we hear about new advances in technology. Processes like 3-D printing are now household topics, but still a magical novelty that open up a world of seemingly infinite possibilities. With all

Get an inside look at the intensive, yet self-directed approach one university in Japan uses to prepare students for life as ceramic artists.

After being featured as an Emerging Artist in our May 2002 issue, Martina Lantin’s work changed in dramatic, unexpected ways.

The difference between a good cup and an amazing cup often comes down to the foot. Learn how to make your bottoms as smooth as glass with an inexpensive grinder tool.

Combining the right materials within acceptable limits to make a workable clay body can be difficult and full of trial and error. Here are a few considerations and some helpful parameters to guide you

Hoogeboom’s jewelry, featured in a recent exhibition at Gallery Loupe in Monclair, New Jersey, uses ceramics and the history of its trade and production as both material and inspiration

When I fell in love with pottery, I was 18, already in art school, and searching for my artistic identity. I was idealistic and enamored with the romance and the anti-establishment statement of being

Antoinette Badenhorst shares recipes for transparent glazes that work great with added colorants and when used over translucent porcelain.

What started out as a solitary business that was focused on gallery and craft-fair sales has led to a collaborative one that focuses on retail, wholesale, and trade shows.

A recent exhibition at Gallery 224 at the OFA Ceramics Program at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, focused on 40 artists exploring innovative trends in ceramics.