Sincerity and Eccentricity
After 24 years of teaching, I’m increasingly motivated to share what I know and emphasize that teaching IS learning. I … Read More
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Editor’s Note: Teaching IS Learning
When I was an undergraduate student (those super nerdy days when I spent all my time in the ceramic studio), … Read More
Crazy Beautiful Crazing: Uncovering the Mysteries of Snowflake Crackle Glazes
I have been messing around with crazing as a deliberate decorative effect lately. Though it is technically a glaze defect, … Read More
The Dividing Web: A Handy Tool for Making Evenly Spaced Patterns All the Way Around a Piece of Pottery
How many times have you tried to eyeball making evenly spaced decorations around a piece of round pottery and misjudged … Read More
2018 Emerging Artist: Adrienne Eliades
Adrienne Eliades’ food-specific functional tableware helps heighten users’ experiences of serving and eating. Eliades’ clean, asymmetrical forms are often … Read More
Recipes for Cool Ceramic Glaze Colors
If you’ve seen anything I have made in the last several years, you know that I’m a little bit obsessed … Read More
Ceramic Lesson Plan – How to Make a Teapot in 30 Minutes
Learning how to make a teapot is a challenge and a milestone for potters. There are so many components to … Read More
How to Make Vibrant Bursts of Color on Pottery Using Clay Slip and Ceramic Colorants
Lana Wilson uses texture and clay slip to decorate much of her work. It’s a a lot of fun to … Read More
Combining the sgraffito technique with stencils for a striking look
The crisp bold lines of stencils combined with thinner more delicate sgraffito designs can result in a beautiful contrast on … Read More
Tips for Using Underglaze, Oxide, and Glaze Pens to Draw on Clay
I love pots with pattern and imagery and have done a lot with screen printing on clay and paper stencils in my work. … Read More
