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Lisa Naples is a consummate teacher with a gift for explaining how her hands manipulate the clay. That’s why she … Read More

I’ve been interested in learning how to make clay art animals for a long time, but as a functional potter, … Read More

Figure sculpting is not an area of ceramics that I have explored much probably because it seems like such an … Read More

Many many moons ago, when I started out my career here as assistant editor to our magazines Ceramics Monthly and … Read More

Lisa Naples’ transition from one life chapter to the next coincided with building a new body of work for a … Read More

I don’t know about you, but I seem to naturally gravitate toward depictions of other people or animals, reading their … Read More

Making a three-dimensional slab built sculpture from a two-dimensional paper template can present a lot of pitfalls if you don’t … Read More

Shortly after graduating from college, I came up with a line of pottery using thrown and altered forms, a black … Read More

There are lots of ways to create texture on pottery, the most obvious being stamping the malleable surface. However, you … Read More

There is so much potential in slab building. But I find it challenging to go from a flat slab of … Read More