How to Make a Better Homemade Sink Trap for Your Pottery Studio
When setting up a studio, it is important to find a safe way to wash your hands and tools without … Read More
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Carly Slade’s Oeuvre: Monuments to Everyday People
Foundational experiences from Carly Slade’s upbringing in a blue-collar family that valued hand work pervade her sculptures, which focus on … Read More
Clay Culture: Guest Potter Tips
Group firings bring together potters to share in the labor and rewards of the kiln. As a guest, maximize the … Read More
How to Design Low-Relief Carvings in Wet Clay
This post is all about carving into clay and the best tools and techniques for doing so. In this post, potter … Read More
Drafting a Teapot
The pots I make are an exploration of how sculptural form, function, and simplicity can exist in the everyday, utilitarian … Read More
Collaboration: Curt Hammerly and Eric Heerspink
Eric Heerspink and Curt Hammerly
After Curt Hammerly saw an exhibition of collaborative work, he was inspired to try it out in his own studio … Read More
Quick Tip: Fighting Finger Fatigue
Ellen Kong shares a tip she developed after attending a sgraffito workshop. Using cheap and readily available materials, she came … Read More
What Galleries Want: How to Get Your Work Into a Ceramic Gallery
So, you’ve built up a solid body of work and you feel ready to take the plunge into finding gallery … Read More
A Painterly Approach to Surface Decoration Using Colored Slips
Sometimes you just need a change. Tim Ludwig began to feel that his work needed a change about ten years … Read More
In the Potter’s Kitchen: Making an Oil Cruet
My dad starting buying olive oil in a very large glass jar from a local market. He wanted me to … Read More
