6 Great Tips for Carving Pottery
Carving pottery can add not only a pleasing design on a pot, but it can also be tactilely pleasing. Users … Read More
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A Super Simple Analogy to Help You Understand Glaze Structure
Understanding glaze structure isn’t hard. Ceramic glazes consist of three main components: glass formers, fluxes, and refractories. If you can … Read More
Tips and Tools: Work-From-Home Studio
Have you hit a wall in your home studio or feel less than excited when making? Consider reworking your surroundings … Read More
2021 Emerging Artist: Nom Ceramics
Form, texture, tension, and balance are always at the forefront of our process. The function of a piece develops alongside … Read More
2021 Emerging Artist: Aaron Caldwell
The range of art that I am constantly discovering excites me! I spend a lot of time tapping into historical … Read More
Ceramic Stains: The Easy Way to Create All the Colors of the Rainbow on Your Pottery
Nowadays, ceramic artists are spoiled. It wasn’t that long ago that getting the colors and surfaces you wanted took a … Read More
Spotlight: Skin of the Vessel
Inspired by the landscape of the Southwest and the ability of music to spark memory, James Watkins experiments with materials … Read More
Andy Bissonnette: Seeking Order in Symmetry
Within Andy Bissonnette’s refined vessels exists a series of contrasts: smooth and carved, complex and simple, intentional and organic. Using … Read More
A Material World: Janice Jakielski’s Impossible Objects
A commitment to craftsmanship, specialty equipment, rigorous materials testing, and detailed preparation converge in the thin-cast porcelain sculptures of Janice … Read More
How to Use Tar Paper as a Support While Slab Building
Tar paper is a great material to use for templates for handbuilding, but Lisa Pedolsky takes this idea one step … Read More
