Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

The juried biennial exhibition held at Brown University’s Bell Gallery in conjunction with the 2015 National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts conference, featured a total of 50 works from functional pieces to sculptures and installations.

My studio is located in a small basement room (about 100 square feet). Keeping my two young cats out of the studio wasn’t an option, but keeping them away from delicate greenware was a necessity! Jame

his non-uniform drying puts the entire circumference of the plate rim in tension. That can be called lateral tension. Since the clay at the rim has shrunk more than the clay in the center of the plate

I am trying to capture in my ceramic work that sense of soul and history I perceive from the buildings in these books and from buildings and objects I have seen while traveling.

From Polseno’s early raku work to her continuing investigation of both figurative sculpture and pottery, a pursuit of surfaces with visual depth has remained a constant.

McConnell’s sculptural groupings emphasize the importance of context on perception and question definitions of authorship, originality, art, and creativity

Cavener’s expressive, hybrid creatures, which can be seen as products of self examination and a desire to understand relationships and motivations, explore animal nature embodied in humans and human nature symbolized by animals.

Over the course of his career, Pharis has switched from salt firing wheel-thrown stoneware forms to low firing loosely geometric handbuilt vessels.

Until the mid 1990s, Vanier made mostly earthenware pots. After she set up her own studio in the French countryside she made the switch to stoneware, seeking surfaces that, while still expressive and decorated with nature-inspired motifs.

Here I throw, alter the forms, rough trim when the clay is soft leather hard, finish-trim at close to bone dry, clean up the formed surfaces, and then carve patterns.