Porcelain for Beginners—8 Tips for Getting Off to a Good Start with Porcelain
Switching to a porcelain clay body may seem like an easy enough thing to do, but if you’ve ever worked … Read More
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How to Throw an Optimally Designed Whiskey Cup
Whiskey bottles are a popular form in a lot of potters’ vocabularies–understandably because whiskey is delicious! But you also need … Read More
Persnickety Porcelain Clay: How to Minimize Your Loss Rate
Porcelain clay is a clay body that draws in many a potter because of its bright white color, translucency, and … Read More
In the Potter’s Kitchen: Connected Vessels
Working with multiple forms, either of the same shape or slight variations of the same shape, offers a playful improvisational … Read More
Handmade Modernism
About 10 years ago, in graduate school at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), I developed a keen interest in handmade … Read More
Making Molds on Location
I moved to Louisiana in 2002 to attend graduate school at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge. Louisiana is … Read More
Mandy Henebry’s Slip and Stencil Decorated Salt-and-Pepper Shakers
When looking at intriguing pots, we are often caught wondering, how is this made? It is delightful to witness the … Read More
In the Studio: Ceramic Jewelry Beads
Ceramics is being included by some contemporary jewelers as part of a large and varied palette of different non-precious materials. … Read More
Creating Sculptures with “Clay Fabric”
At first glance, Keith Schneider’s sculptures almost appear to be made of soft fabric. In fact, he calls the thin … Read More
How to Make a Coil Pot: Using Flat Coils to Construct Large Jars
Until several years ago, I hadn’t had much interest in making coil pots. I preferred the speed of the potters … Read More
