A Brilliant Warm-Up Exercise for Brushwork Decoration
One of the great things about pottery as a creative endeavor is that it satisfies the desire to build an … Read More
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The Magic of Majolica: How to Create Vibrant Painterly Decoration on Pottery
Majolica, also referred to as maiolica, is a fabulous decorative technique for potters who wish to treat their surfaces like … Read More
Slip Trailing for Beginners: A Primer on a Great Ceramics Decorating Technique
Slip trailing is a great way to use clay slip as a decorative tool. Like its cousin glaze trailing, slip … Read More
How to Make a Wheel Thrown and Slip Decorated Cup and Saucer
Inspired by cup and saucer sets from the 17th and 18th centuries, Lyla Goldstein enjoys investigating the relationship between these … Read More
How to Customize Brushes for Pottery
If you like to make brushwork on your work, you know that brushes for pottery can be expensive. The cheapie … Read More
Clay Culture: Intersections
Mayer Shacter started out his career as a ceramic artist, then gravitated to his current focus as an art dealer … Read More
Sarah Jaeger: Montana Potter Laureate
Sarah Jaeger’s newest body of work combines her focus on making pots for everyday life and her approach to surface … Read More
Editor’s Note: Renewing Function
I have a confession. I occasionally find myself struggling with the idea of making more objects for a world that … Read More
The Women Potters of Rural Guatemala
Artists, designers, gallerists, and non-profit organizations have collaborated in Guatemala to combine generational ceramic traditions with contemporary forms
and marketing. … Read More
Miranda Thomas Pottery: A Labor of Love
A willingness to delegate and build a skilled team has allowed the Miranda Thomas Pottery to take on numerous challenging, … Read More
