University of California, Davis: From Ceramics Monthly's MFA Factor
The UC Davis Department of Art’s MFA graduate program philosophy is to
bring in students of the highest creative caliber and … Read More
Tag: fire clay
Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size—low shrinkage, buff-color, often nonplastic. Source: Clay: A Studio Handbook
Building Complex Glaze Surfaces with Multiple Firings
Have you ever mixed or purchased a glaze, put it on a piece that you had been saving for that … Read More
Pushing the Envelope: Creating Complex Ceramic Sculpture with Bone-Dry Clay and a Simple Mortar
Mark Gordon used a specialty mortar to attach bone-dry pieces together to form this sculpture.
One of the challenges of working … Read More
Layering Commercial Underglazes and Silk Screened Images to Create Contemporary but Rustic Ceramics
Inspired by 16th-century French potter Bernard Palissy, whose creations swam, slithered and crawled with creatures from nature, John McCuistion uses … Read More
