Great Tips for Trimming Pottery Bowls
Love it or hate it, trimming pottery (sometimes called pottery turning) can transform a weighty Earth-bound pot into one that … Read More
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Nifty Nests: How to Make Ceramic Nesting Bowls
Annie Chrietzberg loves to scour kitchen stores and garage sales for unique implements to use in the studio. Today, she … Read More
Simple Sets: Making and Using Slab Bowl Templates
Throwing bowls on the pottery wheel is not the only option if you are interested in making a set of … Read More
From Scratch: A Conversation with Restaurant Potter Connor McGinn
Converging an array of knowledge gleaned from working in a farm-to-table kitchen, earning a business degree, and taking risks in … Read More
Artisan in Residence
Showcasing seasonal food as the artisan in residence for a regional cooking magazine has meant considering the perspectives of the … Read More
Aluminum Foil Saggars: An Easy Alternative to Traditional Clay Saggars
Saggar firing was originally developed to protect wares from ash-slagging and flame-flashing in wood firings, but in contemporary use, with … Read More
Making Delicate Porcelain Sculpture with Porcelain Slip and Flaxed Paper Clay
Helen Gilmour is interested in the relationships between traditional crafts. So she decided to make traditional pottery forms–like teapots and … Read More
Crazy Beautiful Crazing: Uncovering the Mysteries of Snowflake Crackle Glazes
I have been messing around with crazing as a deliberate decorative effect lately. Though it is technically a glaze defect, … Read More
A Simple Watercolor Majolica Technique
Ceramic stains and underglazes mixed with water painted on unfired white-glazed bisque is pretty similar to watercolor painting on paper. … Read More
Place and Identity: Gukki Nuka and Kristine Spore Kreutzmann
These two Greenlandic artists share a focus on expressing their Inuit heritage through the forms and materials of their respective … Read More
