How to Make Marbled Effects on Pottery Using Colored Clay Slabs
Mixing contrasting ceramic stains into a white clay body and then handbuilding with them can lead to some incredible pottery … Read More
Mixing contrasting ceramic stains into a white clay body and then handbuilding with them can lead to some incredible pottery … Read More
Situated on a canal in Detroit, Michigan, a former boathouse serves as the small but efficient work space for ceramic … Read More
John Thies has been building, firing and maintaining large wood kilns for more than thirty years. For more than ten … Read More
Because kilns can have a hefty price tag, many potters just starting out rely on others to fire their work. … Read More
Honesty of materials and process, as well a sense of place, have guided Seth Charles’ sculptural and functional wood-fired ceramics. … Read More
Within Andy Bissonnette’s refined vessels exists a series of contrasts: smooth and carved, complex and simple, intentional and organic. Using … Read More
Teaching introductory and advanced ceramic students during a pandemic continues to pose a number of challenges. Two educators describe how … Read More
I have been messing around with crazing as a deliberate decorative effect lately. Though it is technically a glaze defect, … Read More
The best way to learn about ceramic glazes and glaze materials is to test them. By studying what happens when … Read More
Explorations of her own cultural hybridity and family history inform Heidi McKenzie’s choice of clays, forms, and surfaces in the … Read More