Recycling Clay: Tips for Collecting, Storing, Reclaiming and Reprocessing Your Clay Scraps
Recycling clay is not the most exciting part of being a ceramic artist, but it is necessary. We all end … Read More
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Quick Tips: Clean Your Brush with the Brush Scraper
Keeping your brushes clean while working, decorating pottery, or waxing a pot is very important to prolong the life of … Read More
Heidi McKenzie: Mixed Clay and Color
Explorations of her own cultural hybridity and family history inform Heidi McKenzie’s choice of clays, forms, and surfaces in the … Read More
Great Advice on Starting a Ceramic Business
Probably every artist who has fallen in love with clay has thought the following at one time or another: How … Read More
Clay Culture: From Toilet to Pipeline
Adding recycled ceramic waste (like bricks and sanitary ware) as aggregate in concrete production may be one way to make … 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
Roadside Glazes: Your Next Great Pottery Glaze Might be Just Down the Road
Ceramic artists in this day and age have it relatively easy when it comes to obtaining materials for their craft. … Read More
How to Make Tessellations with Simple Bisque Stamps
Amy Meya was fascinated by tessellation—the repeated use of a single shape without gaps or overlapping—and wanted to figure out … Read More
Ceramic Deception: Mitchell Spain, Shalene Valenzuela, and Michael Schwegmann
Three contemporary artists employ trompe l’oeil techniques to achieve very different results, from evoking nostalgia to building a narrative. … Read More
How to Make Paper Clay in Your Home Studio
In this post, we’ll show you how to make paper clay. Making paper clay is a great way to gain … Read More
