A Touch of Greenery
Mercury Mosaics is a collective of artists, craftspeople, administrators, and graphic designers linked through a common purpose to create something … Read More
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Packaging Ceramics for Shipping: Make Sure Your Pots Survive Shipping
Hopefully you haven’t already learned this the hard way, but you can’t afford to do a shoddy job on packaging … Read More
Techno File: Bentonite
Bentonite is an amazing material, adding plasticity to clay bodies, greatly improving glaze suspension, and helping glazes harden. Properly adding … Read More
Emancipative Forces From the Past
An exhibition of large-scale ceramic sculpture by Torbjørn Kvasbø and Marit Tingleff as well as textiles by Kari Dyrdal was … Read More
Collectives: The Model for Success
Edith Garcia explores the origins and continued success of the collectives Studio Manifold in London, England, and Kansas City Urban … Read More
Clay Culture: Across Disciplines
Addressing the lack of interaction between students in different media, Ashley Fuchs designed an assignment that paired graphic design and … Read More
From the Editor: March 2020
We all have our studio routines and habits, a rhythm developed after years of making. This can be good and … Read More
How to Make a Clay Ocarina
All kinds of musical instruments can be fashioned from clay, with one of the simplest being the clay ocarina. If … Read More
Plaster Mixing 101: How to Mix Plaster for Ceramic Molds
Learning how to mix plaster is essential if you are interested in slip casting, but even if you’re not, mixing … Read More
A Smart Way to Center a Foot on a Square Slab Plate
Slab-built plates seem like a pretty simple endeavor, but it can be challenging to center the feet just right. Coil … Read More
